[computer-go] Big board, ++physics

[Chris Fant]

> 5/ Percolation: I tend to think of some dynamical systems (like
> spin-glasses) as naturally moving toward a static end-state where every cell
> is frozen (e.g up or down, black or white). (This is generally a good
> property for go games to have too.) But some systems just keep going. As you
> bring water to a boil, first you get tiny bubbles too widely spread to
> intact; later they start to merge; there is an edge of chaos/complexity
> region; and then you wind up with a chaotic boiling mess.
>
>      If you removed any go rules against suicide or eye filling and made
> passing illegal (any empty space is legal-although it might be suicide),
> then a playout game would boil away forever. Just what my go engine needs ;)
> By tuning the playout rules, you might get different scaling effects.

I wonder if a large board would ever boil away to a single stone.