palapiku wrote:
RobertJasiek wrote:
Here we see another carelessness of you: You did not consider your own made assumptions carefully! You presumed a repeated position, i.e., your assumptions did not allow for ko rules that would have prohibited repeated positions. In particular PSK is disallowed under your implied assumptions. Therefore single-stone suicide does not behave as you wish ALA we use your implied assumptions from your problem request message.
Sorry, I still don't understand, and I think you don't understand me either. First of all I'm not interested in cycles, either positional or situational.
You had written: "Positional repetition doesn't necessarily lead to a non-terminating game"
Positional repetition DOES CREATE A CYCLE! The cycle from the previous occurance of a position to its repeated occurrance. Therefore your new statement "First of all I'm not interested in cycles" contradicts your earlier statement. This is an example why I may correctly write "Here we see another carelessness of you: You did not consider your own made assumptions carefully!". Etc. But as long as you do not understand what you wrote (that it implies a cycle), it is pointless to continue discussion.
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First of all I'm not interested in cycles, either positional or situational. I'm only interested in non-terminating games.
Non-terminating go games contain cycles! Proof: The number of positions is finite. Therefore the number of possible sequences is finite. Therefore positions are repeated.
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Theoretically, cycles of any kind are harmless as long as the game ends.
Depends on what you call harmless.
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It's non-termination that superko is meant to address.
Superko wants something more specific: Prevent repetition in a board-global sense.
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The problem with PSK is precisely that it prohibits situations which don't lead to non-terminating games
Which and under EXACTLY WHICH SET OF ASSUMPTIONS?
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such as the suicide of one stone.
Recycling of (Suicide of one stone followed by a single pass) leads to a non-terminating game.
Immediate repetition of (Suicide of one stone) does not exist because it does not abide the alternation of turns principle.
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it doesn't lead to non-termination and therefore should not fall under the jurisdiction of a superko rule.
Whether it leads to non-termination depends on what you consider: Intervening single passes or none of them.