[computer-go] Re: Please have your bot resign, for your own good

Don Dailey drdailey at cox.net
Thu Jan 3 11:41:08 PST 2008



Dave Dyer wrote:
>> CGOS uses Chinese scoring with play-outs so that we can get fully
>> automated scoring with no chance of errors.
>>     
>
> "No chance of errors" is vacuously true.  Errors, if any, were made
> in the playout leading to the final state.  There can be score 
> differences compared to what would have been Japanese score, ranging from
> zero to extremely large, depending on how correctly the playout was done.
>   
Who cares what the Japanese score would have been?   CGOS uses Chinese
scoring.

When I say "no chance of errors" I mean there are no ambiguous cases
that the software cannot handle.


- Don



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