Fascinating answers, thanks everyone. > Although a theoretical maximum is nice to ponder upon, in an > experiment to safe computationtime, I tested my software for a superko > up to cycles of ten. After several tens of thousands of game it came > in an infinite loop due to a 12-cycle positional superko. So it is not > common, but it can happen.
Wow, that is more common than I expected. (Can you give more details? 9x9 or 19x19 games? Did the program have much knowledge? I assume self-play?) Darren _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
