Life In 19x19

Since Havannah has a certain affinity with Go, and since attempts to program either are relatively successful, this match may be of some interest to some players in the Go community .

It's only fair as long as you assume perfect play
edit: and that komi is half the value of the first move. I'm not quite sure in reply to which post this is but I agree about the komi .

To illustrate Symple's balancing mechanism, we're conveniently presented with a kind of Bobby Fischer of Symple ...

Luigi's idea may well be worth considering, given the response, but it emerged in Symple and was immediately afterwards used in Sygo . Both games allow multiple placements per turn (with each placement the growth of an existing group), OR a single placement (which must be the start of a new group ...

RobertJasiek wrote:On the rules level, avoiding ambiguity can be even simpler, using, e.g., positional superko. In terms of strategy, it is more appropriate to speak of "complexity".

You got it .
the arena

Let me add that when I learned go we did not have passes. Games ended by agreement. We did not have any problems with that, but in the history of go problems occasionally arose. With fair play in the spirit of the game, players need little formalization. But it's not always like that. In the ...

For the reasons in the above paragraph, I think it's unwise to call Sygo a Go variant (I don't know if Christian ever did that). Fighting is far too different, and middle-late game invasions are so much less likely that there's not so much in common (unlike, say, Redstone). That's neither good nor ...

jts wrote:

MarkSteere wrote:Latin, according to google translate.

Ah. I think you want ludi finales regunt. (What you had was: Finish! I play a rule.)

Nice try Mark

I knew you'd crack eventually

For those who don't understand, me being one of them, Christian is tormented by my motto, finite games rule .
What language is that supposed to be?
My guess would be English. As to the content, rest assured that I'm quite untormented and that none of the games that ...

MarkSteere wrote:I knew you'd crack eventually

For those who don't understand, me being one of them, Christian is tormented by my motto, finite games rule.

Actually I was wondering why Corey doesn't move

Finito Ludos?

I think square Oust may be more interesting than hex Oust in some ways, difficult to describe. I played a little square Oust, then played a whole lot of hex Oust, and now coming back to the square version, I'm seeing the differences more clearly. The way sente sometimes swings back and forth here ...

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