mark@umcp-cs.UUCP (Mark Weiser) (03/03/86)
In putting together my go front end I have a question and a comment:
1. Is there any algorithm for where the handicap points go on odd sized
boards? My front-end lets you pick board sizes from 5x5 to 30x30
(using a Sun 'panel' slider), but where should it put the handicap points?
(I know, 30x30 is useless, but it was cheap flexibility).
2. I use a particularly straightforward ko detection algorithm in
my illegal move detector. I have never seen it before, so perhaps
it is wrong. The algorithm is to first compute what would be
captured if the current stone is played. Then, it is an illegal move
(because of ko) iff the previous move is the current capture, and the previous
capture is the current move.
-mark
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