_first capture_, no?

s.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 6:59 PM Marcel Crasmaru <crasma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've eventually managed to create a problem that should show a full
> reduction from a Robson problem to Go - I hope is correct.
>
> The Problem:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tmClDIs-baXUqRC7fQ2iKzMRXoQuGmz2/view?usp=sharing
> Black just captured in the marked ko. How should White play to save
> the lower group?
>
>
> > no ko fights and no counting (i.e. first capture) could put this in P.
>
> Not true - please read Tromp et al paper: Ladders are PSPACE hard
> without ko - that is, you can reduce any PSPACE problem in reasonable
> time to a Go problem without kos.
>
> --Marcel
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 22:27, uurtamo <uurt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My understanding: ko fights will take this to (at least, I haven't seen
> the
> > EXP argument) PSPACE.
> >
> > no ko fights and no counting (i.e. first capture) could put this in P.
> >
> > s.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:21 PM John Tromp <john.tr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Álvaro Begué <alvaro.be...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I don't think ko fights have anything to do with this. John Tromp told
> >> > me that ladders are PSPACE complete: https://tromp.github.io/lad.ps
> >>
> >> Ko fights are needed to take Go problems beyond PSPACE.
> >> For Japanese rules they suffice to go beyond (assuming EXPTIME !=
> PSPACE),
> >> but for Chinese rules it's an open problem.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> -John
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