Re: [gnugo-devel] "local" Go games

[Eric]

--- Eric <address@hidden> wrote:

> --- Evan Daniel <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > No, there's a difference.  If you cut down the
> board
> > too much, you
> > can't solve the local game.  You can, however,
> find
> > moves that tend to
> > be worth considering from a global perspective, or
> > semi-local
> > perspective (eg owl reading), even though you
> can't
> > get definitive
> > answers.  If, however, you cut down the game only
> > somewhat, you can
> > get correct answers (in some cases, anyway, like
> > some endgame
> > positions).
> 
> Yes, Evan, but you still have not yet defined "too
> much" and "only somewhat" ;-)

And even if you could, your definition would depend
upon an algorithm - you know, how your program rates
all of the local board "candidate" moves; and whether
it just *picks* a global move from the candidates, or
*synthesizes* a global move from the candidates. There
are a lot of unknowns here.

Eric...