Personally, I'm ignorant on the subtle nature of Japanese rules. I look it as territory scoring instead of area scoring. Area scoring has the nice side effect that people can and should stop playing a game once all territory is decided.
Having run a "dumb" bot on KGS in the past, I became sensitive to user needs... 1. A bot that stubbornly plays 50 useless moves in endgame is highly annoying... especially with sudden death time limits. Resigning a lost game helps, but so would territory scoring with proper dead stone marking. 2. Byo yomi or canadian time are very popular, but a computer can't take full advantage of byo yomi or canadian time in endgame without frustrating the opponent. When a game is nearly over, the bot should not ponder for 19 out of 20 seconds of byo yomi to play an obvious move. My usual method to solve #1 is to put up an approximate and hope I don't piss off too many people while testing. #2 is usually pretty easy to solve by adding a max time per move that decreases as the game length gets longer. On Nov 6, 2007 3:45 PM, Jeff Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:27 +0100, Lars Schäfers wrote: > > Hello Jeff, > > > > as far as I know there don't exist any formal and automatable japanese > > ruleset. > > I would propose the GnuGO scoring as a referee. > > I don't see what is gained by converting CGOS to Japanese rules. You > lose the ability for programs to play out disputes and instead depend on > a 6k computer program (typical KGS rank for GnuGO) to resolve disputes. > It's also a needless complication for bot authors that aren't concerned > about Japanese rules. If you want to implement Japanese rules for your > program, great. > > This discussion has been had many times on this list. What's the new > compelling argument for having it again? > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ >
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