A good "devil" tries to win by MORE than he deserves and will try to win in a losing position.
I have heard this terminology before and my understanding was that a devil still plays a perfect game, he just tries to be deceptive about it. I don't see any point in not playing perfect if you can unless you are happy to play non-optimally and don't mind the chance of getting a lesser score than you are guaranteed. One other issue, how much does the "devil" know about his opponent? That has everything to do with it. You might use a much different strategy against one player than another. A good devil doesn't care - he will still play "perfect" while still using whatever tricks have a chance of working against any imperfect opponent without compromising or taking chances. - Don On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:39 -0800, steve uurtamo wrote: > > But a "god" will win over the > > "devil", as he will not > > fall in any of the traps, but can use the suboptimal > > play spent in > > setting those up. > > actually, whomever is slated to win with perfect play > (1st or 2nd player) will win, because "setting up > traps" isn't necessarily inefficient -- it just > means choosing branches where the number of > winning moves for your opponent is minimized. it > is still optimal play. either you start in a winning > branch and you just play it out and win (even by > choosing such branches, you're just playing a cleaner > version of the same winning game), or you start > in a losing branch and it doesn't matter what you do, > you're going to lose. > > s. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Sponsored Link > > Don't quit your job - take classes online > www.Classesusa.com > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
