[computer-go] 19x19 game strategy.

Andrés Domínguez andresdju at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 06:34:24 PDT 2006


2006/10/12, Jacques Basaldúa <jacques at dybot.com>:
> Andrés Domínguez wrote:
>
>  >Also, as white with komi, is very easy to defeat a pure mirror go
> program ..
>  >Tengen has not points if you don't use it.
>
> It is even easier if you capture tengen as in this example where white (O)
> moves at (a) and captures. The [X] at the center is the initial black at
> tengen.
>
>  . . . . . . . . .
>  . . . O O O . . .
>  . . O X X X(a). .
>  . . O X[X]O X . .
>  . . . O O O X . .
>  . . . B X X . . .
>  . . . . . . . . .
>
> Jacques.

But then white has done inefficient moves, so black stops mirroring
(with steve rules). But it is easy don't do inefficient moves and
win because komi (making tengen inefficient).

Andrés


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