[computer-go] Re: Interesting problem

[David Doshay]

On 3, Jan 2007, at 2:53 PM, Christoph Birk wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, David Doshay wrote:
>> Chinese, note that SlugGo started passing, indicating that it saw no
>> purpose in any more moves, at move 239. Here, the boundaries are
>> clear, the dead stones are clear to a human, and the winner is plenty
>> clear enough.
>
> Yes, W (mogo) wins by 2.5 pts
>
>> But the game continued to move 526! All in "invasions"
>> that were not "reasonable" by human standards, but which are not
>> costly under Chinese rules. By Chinese rules MoGo wins by 2.5, by
>> Japanese rules SlugGo wins at move 526 by almost 120. This difference
>
> I don't understand. Using Japanese counting W still wins by 2.5 pts
> after move 525.
>
> Christoph

Don't forget to include all those captured stones. The score is only
the same under AGA rules, where SlugGo has to pay a stone for
each pass.

Cheers,
David