Re: [gnugo-devel] reinstating value(100) owl defense moves?

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Evan wrote:
> It is also entirely possible that we need to do this in a completely
> different manner, and maybe doing this as a first pass is not worth
> it.  Something automated would seem a lot less error-prone.  At the
> very least, some automated checking would be in order.

The natural solution in our life and death reading paradigm would be
to handle these shapes as eyes. The only problem is that, in order to
reliably detect certain life that way, we would need another level or
two of sophistication(*) in the eye analysis.

(*) Such as understanding cutting points, distinguish between marginal
eye points of different types, and recognizing the risk for shortage
of liberties when the opponent descends to the edge outside a hanging
connection.

/Gunnar