There are two reasons to consider suicide and its detection..
1) Some rule sets allow suicide. In such a rule set a suicide can
be the best move because it can be a huge ko threat.
2) As David Fotland has pointed out many times, when competing
under rules that allow suicide, some programs will do one just to
see if your program refuses to play when you detect its suicide.
Cheers,
David
On 16, Jan 2008, at 5:52 AM, Don Dailey wrote:
I think suicide is insane myself. But I think the reason programs
might use it is only for a speedup - it's faster with some
implementations to allow suicide even though it makes the games
longer.
Of course you are right about point B. If suicide is illegal in the
actual game, there can be no point in allowing it in the play-outs.
It's almost certainly wrong to allow it in the play-outs even if
you are
playing by suicide rules - a lot of work has gone into finding good
moves in the play-outs and this would be one of the prime
candidates for
removal!
- Don
Jacques Basaldúa wrote:
Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
Multi-stone suicide is allowed, single stone not.
I hadn't even considered suicide.(It would be a major change for me,
as neither my Gui nor my board system allow such moves.)
The question is Why do you do it?
a. Just in case you wanted the entire program to support suicide go
or
b. Because that has some advantage as a random playout.
If it was b, can anyone explain why suicide is a better evaluation
for
a normal (non suicide) game.
Jacques.
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