On 8, Feb 2007, at 9:34 AM, Eric Boesch wrote:

On 2/7/07, David Doshay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7, Feb 2007, at 1:35 PM, Don Dailey wrote:

> Although suicide can occasionally be the best move in some
> rule-sets,  I think it weakens your program to include it,

At best you are going to get a ko threat, so it requires a pretty
sophisticated program to know how and when to use it.

There are weird cases where suicide is more than just a ko threat.

http://www.goban.demon.co.uk/go/bestiary/rule_challenge.html

(Just picking nits.)

nit effectively picked ...

In light of these very odd situations, please change my comment
above to read :

 ... so it requires a *very* sophisticated program to ...

;^)

Cheers,
David

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