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

[Nick Wedd]

In message <476114E4.2060508 at dybot.com>, Jacques Basaldúa 
<jacques at dybot.com> writes
>Nick Wedd wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Is the game record available?


This was an ordinary ko, there was nothing remarkable about the game. 
(Anyway the record is no longer available.)

Nick

>I am interested because I have only found 2
>situations in real games:
>
>a. Triple ko
>b. Double ko when the group sharing the kos has nothing better than 
>life in seki.
>
>Both have cycles smaller than 8 ply and my software doesn't check 
>longer cycles.
>
>I guess any human player would recognize these situations. So if a 
>strong player
>didn't it must be something more complicated.
>
>
>Jacques.
>
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