I bet with practice and using Chinese scoring, you could very rapidly calculate the score without touching the board.
In fact, if I were trying to become a dan level players I would think that in Chinese I would want to be able to quickly "sum" the board like this. In real close games I would want to know that winning some small group would either do the job, or not do the job and I should concentrate elsewhere. But I am told that good players don't think like that, they just grab at everything. - Don On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 10:06 -0700, David Fotland wrote: > I was speaking of how people count, not computers. Chinese players count by > taking all the stones off the board and putting them in piles of ten. > > I've done (and seen) point by point counting on a real board, and it is > really hard to get a correct result. You have to count at least twice to > verify, and usually 3 or 4 times to get two counts that are the same. So no > one does it this way. > > Clearly Chinese counting is easier for computers, but Japanese counting > seems easier to most people. > > David > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Jasiek > > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:56 AM > > To: computer-go > > Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: Disputes under Japanese rules > > > > David Fotland wrote: > > > Japanese rules' [...] the actual counting [...] The position is > > preserved > > > > Japanese counting destroys the position by > > - removal of dead stones > > - filling in of (most) prisoners > > - rearrangements of stones > > - rearrangements of borders > > - border stone colour changes > > > > After the removal of dead stones, these counting methods do NOT destroy > > the position: > > - point by point counting > > - point by point half counting > > - some algorithmic virtual counting like flood-filling > > > > -- > > robert jasiek > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/
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