I believe it's not a good idea just to store the number of stones of a
conditionally alive string - what you really want is a good estimation
for the endgame value of capturing / escaping, which can be quite
different depending on how much points, influence or nearby weak
groups are effected by thi
Getting back to the CL vs. Scheme question, I think starting with
Scheme is a perfectly reasonable choice as it is much more
student-friedy (as long as you don't look at continuations too soon).
Personally, I now prefer CL because of the multiple namespaces for
different things (I can have a variab
