I think I'll be doing exactly this: it's alive if it can never be captured; [some example] is alive because it has two eyes.
(In my flyer sequence, I will cover false eyes and seki, but not bent four or thousand-year Ko.) On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Dave Dyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with the idea that focusing on life, rather than eyes, is > the most intuitive. Then you can explain everything with a few > simple statements. > > 1) a group is captured if there are not empty spaces adjavcent to it. > 2) a group is alive if no sequence of legal moves can capture it. > > then you should simple examples of groups that are alive. As a side > comment, you might mention that there are lots of unusual and tricky > cases, where the "rules" clause gets complicated - Starting with false > eyes, and sekis, bent four in the corner, and thousand year Ko. > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- Peter Drake https://sites.google.com/a/lclark.edu/drake/
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