dear David, > To quote from: http://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html > > It should come as no surprise that L19, viewed as a position, is itself > illegal. > > In this absolute form this statement got disproved in my German Go Forum > article at > http://www.dgob.de/yabbse/index.php?topic=5935.msg216064#msg216064
My form is not as absolute as you make it out to be. The absolute form would be: It should come as no surprise that L19, mapped to a position by laying out the 361 consecutive trits to a path on the 19x19 grid, and choosing which trit represents empty, is itself illegal. That would indeed be a ridiculous claim:-) > Basically it's using a more natural Hilbert-based curve instead of an > arbitrary row-wise mapping which doesn't take the topology of the Go-grid > into account. Let me now if you need any of the details in German > translated. The fact that you can describe my mapping simply as "row-wise" shows how it is quite non-arbitrary. Your Hilbert curve on the contrary can hardly be described in a much simpler way than in its full explicit form, betraying its arbitrariness... Trotzdem, gratuliere zu deinem legale Kurve! kind regards, -John _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
