If I recall correctly, Chinese rules encourage you to fill dame, since stones on the board are counted; Japanese rules exact no penalty either way since dame are not territory.
Under Chinese rules, it would be foolish to pass so long as there are dame to fill. Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. -- Daniel Webster ----- Original Message ---- From: Heikki Levanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:45:56 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] scalability study - final results On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:03:09PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > My program wouldn't do well as it would not understand dame and other > Japanese complexities. It should not do too badly - if you play by the chinese rules, you will do quite well by the japanese as well. Perhaps some of the opponents will find you silly not passing earlier, but so be it. -H -- Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7
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