Robert Jasiek wrote: > Jason House wrote: > > I missed [...] the part about >> solving how to end the game in an elegant way. > > "elegant" is an aspect of art, and I have not studied it profoundly in > relation to rules yet because I concentrate on things that can be > derived from definitions and evaluated by objective derivation from them. > > Some consider it elegant to play on until the board is filled with > 2-liberty strings - others consider it elegant to stop playing at the > Japanese opinion of what worthless moves are (but symmetrical yose is > not considered worthless by them). > > So you see, "elegance" depends on which definition one chooses. > In other words, elegance is subjective - it cannot be defined in some mathematically rigid way. It's pretty much like beauty, it's in the eye of the beholder.
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