Re: [gnugo-devel] etiquette_1_25.1

[Rafael Caetano dos Santos]

Hi,

Arend Bayer writes:
> 
>  - fuseki player taught etiquette
>  
> For a change, here comes a patch with smaller regression delta I hope.
> 
> Not only is it traditional japanese etiquette for black to start in the
> upper right 

This "restriction" is of course harmless because of symmetry...

(and for white to continue in the upper left in a symmetric
> position), 

... but this one isn't, as W may choose not to play at the opposite corner
(lower left from B´s point of view). Then if B plays at the LL corner, we
have a different kind of fuseki (unusual but possible).

> but its also a standard for sgf notations etc. As I have
> been taught this quite early in Go childhood, it hurt me every time
> GNU Go violated that convention... :)

If you play a Japanese player in a tournament, violating that convention
might have a good psychological effect. :-)

bye 
    Rafael Caetano <address@hidden>