Thanks to Don and the others
for all the feedback, bits of information, and help.

Inventing, trying, or proposing something is one aspect.
But finding a proper (and sketchy) name for this is another
topic, also interesting.

For instance: The person who introduced the sketchy and short name "komi"
(for second player compensation) to the human go community must have been 
a smart guy. Is it known when the term "komi" was used for the first time.

*********************************************
A jump in topic.
This night I was meditating, and one idea came to my mind:
What about the term "dynamic counting" in the context of computer go?
First of all the term was there, and now I try to find out what the
substance behind it might be... Here is one possible idea:

Sometimes go bots overemphasize play in and for the center.
What if inside the bot territory on the 19x19-board is counted
not in the traditional way, but give different points different value.
Example: points in the central 7x7-square get value 0.9 each (or
7/8=0.875). All other squares get the normal value (=1).
How would an MCTS bot with such a setting play?

Ingo (swimming in an ocean of new terms).

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:33:05 -0500
> Von: Don Dailey <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [Computer-go] Question for old posting

> I don't know who was the first to use that term - it might have been me
> but
> I cannot be sure.  I tried the idea long before it was mentioned on
> mailing
> list and I think others had tried too.
> 
> Don
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:59 AM, "Ingo Althöfer"
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > Hello Petr,
> >
> > thanks for the reply and help.
> > In the meantime the link worked again on my machine.
> >
> > > ... I could send you the text of the posting but I think its context
> > > in the thread could be important as well. (E.g. the previous post by
> Don
> > > Dailey.)
> >
> > Can you link me to that?
> >
> > > > Other question:
> > > > When was the first use of the term "dynamic komi", and by whom?
> > >
> > >   The first mention of "dynamically changing the komi" by Don Dailey I
> > > found now is from Dec 13 2007:
> > >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05937.html
> >
> > Thanks. So far, I only had found Don writing
> > "dynamically adjusted komi" on February 28, 2008.
> > During some KGS-chat discussions in Summer 2008
> > it got the shorter form "dynamic komi".
> >
> > Ingo.
> >
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