Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 22:48:09 10/26/02
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On October 26, 2002 at 21:00:55, Dan Andersson wrote: >Misere games are games where the winning condition becomes the losing one. Or >more broadly when the purpose is to lose the possibility to make a legal move. >The last loose definition makes nullmove impossible. I.e. you can not assume you >have already won. > A question for you. How the heck do you use nullmove in Go? Passing is a move >AFAIK. I can imagine algorithms that decide that not making a move is the best >option based on a less than full depth search. But that would he closer to B* >than nullmove. > >MvH Dan Andersson The nullmove algorithm does not require that the nullmove be an illegal move AFAIK. BTW, I believe a nullmove (a pass) is seldom the best move in go except toward the end of the game.
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