> I ( with my 8 kyu AGA rating) know with certainty by move 223 (T5) > that Black has captured a large white group. A stronger player could > read this out sooner than I. This fight is too big to lose for either > side; nothing else on the board matters.
Yes! I use Many Faces and GoGui/Mogo for analyzing games [1]. The ability to be able to weight/suppress moves would be great. E.g. click a couple of white stones and say "Stop trying to save these stones, they are dead!" Or click all the stones in a group and say: "Nothing else matters for either side except the live/death of this group". Or, click a bunch of points and say "These are the current hotspots" [2] Weighting moves should be relatively easy for programs to implement. The hardest part would be the GUI code. Agreeing on gtp commands for it would be a big first step. BTW, I appreciate that any move filter could lower strength of a program. The "two dead white stones" both Many Faces and Mogo keep trying to save is a classic example. What they are actually doing is making a dead group slightly stronger, strong enough so that nearby endgame moves switch from being gote to sente. But I'm trying to analyze the difference between two moves in the opposite corner and it is very frustrating when the cursed things keep playing tenuki! Darren [1]: I'm analyzing 9x9 games, and they are generally pro strength from the midgame onwards (bearing in mind their weaknesses of seki, and life/death situations where delicate play is only required by one player). [2]: Where a program could give hotspots 10 times more playouts compared to other moves, at root, with the 10:1 ratio deteriorating to 1:1 after N moves. (E.g. N could be 10, or some function of remaining empty points on board). -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic open source dictionary/semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
