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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:56:39 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 17:42:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On February 13, 2002 at 17:35:57, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Even if I suppose that we know to evaluate only checkmate in chess more time can
>>help because knowing the final result of the game one ply earlier can help in
>>part of the cases to find the right move.
>
>Go has no checkmate. The game is over when both players agree it is over.

I know what you are going to ask next, so I'll already answer:

in that case, the game would keep going until you have filled all but one of
your liberties. at that point, the opponent will capture all your stones in one
move. you can continue playing at that point, again playing on until you have
one liberty left, the opponent again capturing all your stones. you can keep
doing this until there are only single-eyed groups of your opponent left, at
which point you have no more legal moves and have to pass.

This could take quite a while. But I guarantee you your opponent will have
fallen asleep of boredom or killed you out of annoyance before it gets so far.

--
GCP



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