[computer-go] A thought about Bot-server communications

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Don Dailey wrote:
> Ok,  let's get into semantics.   Is superko an illegal move?   Is it
> simply forbidden or is it part of the rules that you lose immediately if
> you play it?     In card games that is called an irregularity and there
> are separate rules  to deal with these.
>
> If you make some other illegal move what happens?    For instance if you
> take one the opponents stones and place it on the board?    Do you lose
> immediately or do you get your hand slapped with the objection that "you
> can't make that move,  play something real!"

In serious tournament go the convention is that you lose immediately.

(I haven't heard of a case of someone playing a stone of the wrong colour in
such a tournament, but certainly playing a move forbidden by the ko rule
forfeits the game).

-M-