In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Heikki Levanto
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:12:26PM -0500, Don Dailey wrote:
There is no question that there are positions where suicide or eye
filling are correct.
I know suicide can be used as a ko-threat, but are there *any* other
positions where it would be a correct move?
If not, then it makes sense to forbid that in a random playout, since it is
"just" a forcing move, and the (equally) random opponent is quite unlikely to
answer the right way anyway. So the suicide move may look like a better move
than it really is.
I can not think of any situation where filling a one-point eye would be a
correct move (provided that it is a "real" eye and not a "false" one).
Can anyone come with concrete examples?
There's a bunch of them at
http://www.goban.demon.co.uk/go/bestiary/rule_challenge.html
None is at all likely in a real game. There's also the more plausible
suicide of three stones as a "minus one point in sente" ko threat.
Nick
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