Re: [gnugo-devel] strategy

[Eric]

--- Arend Bayer <address@hidden> wrote:

> ...I claim it is
> absolutely sufficient to understand the territorial
> value and
> strategical effects of moves, and then just select
> the biggest.

Interesting.

> Martin posted a game where his strategy was to
> capture White's center
> stones. He thinks that GNU Go should, as a counter
> strategy,
> preemptively secure this group. My point of view
> what went wrong in this
> game is different: GNU Go underestimated the
> weakness of this group,
> later made a life-and-death misread, and thus failed
> to defend it.

I was wondering - It's not obvious from reading the
docs whether or not GNU Go implements Benson's
Algorithm. Does it?