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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:01:51 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 do not understand.
if both sides need to agree that one of them won the game then I can avoid
losing in go.
I simply will never agree that the game is over.

There must be a position in the board that means by definition that the game is
over.
Otherwise the game has no meaning.

Uri



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