[computer-go] Big board

Weston Markham weston.markham at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 11:46:14 PST 2007


That board needs to have the inside edge be connected to its outside
edge, in order to represent a torus.

Weston

On 2/20/07, Antonin Lucas <antonin.lucas at gmail.com> wrote:
> No need for those difficulties,  you can play along this board :
>
> http://www.youdzone.com/go.html
>
>
> On 2/21/07, Weston Markham <weston.markham at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Somewhere online, I played a game on a torus, against someone's Java
> > applet that has this option.  I seem to recall playing a normal game
> > at either 9x9 or 13x13, and then a game on the same-sized torus.  I
> > recall the first game as being somewhat challenging to me, (a
> > beginner) and the second game to be somewhat hard to visualize, but
> > quite easy to beat the computer opponent.  Of course, it is possible
> > that my experience in the first game helped me significantly in the
> > second one, so it doesn't mean much.  However, I was puzzled at the
> > time because I had expected my inability to visualize the interactions
> > across the edge of the board to be a huge handicap, relative to a
> > program that presumably has no such difficulty.
> >
> > Weston


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