[computer-go] Interesting Test Position (for UCT)

Christoph Birk birk at ociw.edu
Fri Jul 13 16:47:07 PDT 2007


On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Christoph Birk wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Darren Cook wrote:
>>> I got this from the AGA rules which I (falsly?) assumed to use
>>> chinese counting (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/go/rules/AGA.html)

  "At one time, the Chinese rules compensated White with an extra point 
when Black got the last move. If Black's last move was to fill a ko he or 
she had won, however, it was deemed unfair to penalize him or her, so 
eventually the Chinese removed this proviso."

in: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/go/rules/AGA.commentary.html

It looks like that "rule" is obsolete.

Christoph


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