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

[Nick Wedd]

In message <20071211192205.GA5328 at golux.woodcraft.me.uk>, Matthew 
Woodcraft <matthew at woodcraft.me.uk> writes
>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).

It may depend what you mean by "serious tournament".

In one of the British Championship Match games, a bit over ten years 
ago, Zhang Shutai made an illegal ko move against Matthew Macfadyen, and 
immediately conceded that he had lost the game.

In the "Candidates' Tournament", a preliminary round for the British 
Championship, last year. I observed a player play a stone of the wrong 
colour.  The players had no doubt about the correct action:  the stone 
was removed from the board and replaced by one of the correct colour.

Nick
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