Yes, it can be done quite quickly in certain circumstances:
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/go/icai2006-final-drake.pdf
The problem, of course, is that by the time it's down to this, it's
often too late.
Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:55 PM, steve uurtamo wrot
as far as killing moves are concerned, there's a fairly well-understood
set of circumstances for groups with a large "blob" eyespace under which
death is guaranteed, life is guaranteed if a ko is won, or death is guaranteed
if a ko is lost. i have no idea how to weight the last two, but given that
terry mcintyre wrote:
Lately, I've been studying joseki, and I find that it's hard to really
know a joseki until you know why non-joseki moves are bad - and why moves
which are locally joseki may be bad in relation to other stones on the
board.
No doubt. That is the most complicated part. I