Re: [gnugo-devel] Non-passing Go?

[Evan Berggren Daniel]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 address@hidden wrote:

>
> > Thank you for your advice; it should be very helpful.
> > I am using a board size of 6 presently.  For some
> > first moves by black, white will pass immediately.
>
> GNU has read out that it cannot live on the board.
> I'm not sure if this is correct or not but it seems
> plausible that it is true on a board this small.

The result for optimal play on 6x6, Chinese scoring, is B+4.

That is, w can not only make life, but a very reasonable life.

http://www.mathpuzzle.com/go.html

Evan Daniel