terry mcintyre wrote: > Don, > > I'd strongly agree. You must know whether ladders work > or not, whether a nakade play works or not, whether > various monkey jumps and hanes and so forth succeed or > not. In and of themselves, few moves are objectively > good or bad in any sense - one has to try them and see > what happens. > > Some form of search or playout is needed to determine > this. Even patterns which are completely understood > must be evaluated in the context of a game. > Yes, and even the strongest patterns may not be relevant, especially in our MC programs which lose interest once the game is won or lost.
That's partly why I'm interested in exploring "on the fly" leaning. Learning outside the context of the position being played may not have much relevance. - Don > To take a trivial example, three liberties in a row - > should the middle point be played to reduce it to one > eye, or to create two eyes, depending on whose move it > is? Usually the answer is "yes, if the life of a group > depends on that play, and there is nothing bigger to > do - otherwise, it's a bad play." > > It's important to try that play and see what happens. > It might be a good play or a bad play. Static patterns > can't make that decision without more information. ( > is the group isolated? how big is it? what else is on > the board? ) > > > > Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state > education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit > obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” > > Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874] > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster > Total Access, No Cost. > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
