[computer-go] Paper presents results on proximity heuristic

[Eric Boesch]

On 2/7/07, David Doshay <ddoshay at mac.com> wrote:
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> On 7, Feb 2007, at 1:35 PM, Don Dailey wrote:
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> > Although suicide can occasionally be the best move in some
> > rule-sets,  I think it weakens your program to include it,
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> At best you are going to get a ko threat, so it requires a pretty
> sophisticated program to know how and when to use it.


There are weird cases where suicide is more than just a ko threat.

http://www.goban.demon.co.uk/go/bestiary/rule_challenge.html

(Just picking nits.)
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