On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:21 -0500, Jason House wrote: > Right. In close games, the decision to pass is non-trivial. If > protecting against an invasion causes a loss, then the invasion must > be left open. This type of behavior is human-like. The only real > exception is that weak humans like me don't count perfectly and > exhibit this behavior in more cases than they should. If I'm ahead 40 > points, I protect everything.
And here again it really doesn't matter whether you use territory or area scoring rules. The decision whether to protect or not has to be made well before passing. An endgame invasion often only costs a ko threat for the attacker, but if successful will gain many points, so the same decision has to be made under both rulesets. Under area scoring, you have to decide if you want to give up 1-pt dame; under territory scoring, you lose a point for filling in your territory. Same thing. It's pretty rare to actually benefit from area scoring rules by playing "safe", any more so than you would have under territory scoring rules. -Jeff _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
