> > mr. yang uses the ideas of short and long > extensions and high-low combinations in the > beginning. (a short extension being 1 or spaces > and a long being ideally 5 spaces). this tends to be eficient.
There is the classic Chinese rule of thumb on how far one can comfortably extend along an edge: 2 spaces from one stone, 3 from a perpendicular pair of stones, etc--But then a high-rank professional published an English book some years back where one chapter dealt with what the optimal extension from one stone would be in practice. It turned out highly situation-dependent, from one to five spaces, with the 2 space rule applying only in isolation from other considerations. And probably this too is board size dependent: "How much is there potentially to gain by abandoning the connection and running with one side of the position?" Forrest ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using AIS WebMail. http://www.americanis.net/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
