Re: [gnugo-devel] joseki database

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Gunnar wrote:
> Heikki wrote:
> > * Not sure what sort of "tree-based" matching you are going to do, but if
> > it based on following the game, watch out for situations where a player
> > deviates from the joseki, and later the game reaches a well-known
> > position. If white starts at 6-3, and black approaches 4-4, and white
> > tenukis, we have a classical 4-4 joseki position... This may not happen
> > all too often in the games of the Great Masters, but when humans play
> > against a "mere computer", this is the kind of tricks they hope for the
> > program to fall into. And we hope not to...
>
> The current implementation is not sensitive to transpositions and can
> include reading constraints to check e.g. ladders. It is very unlikely
> that we would accept a new implementation missing either of these key
> features.

i believe i posted an answer in which, among other things, i wrote that
the new implementation will handle non-standard sequences leading to
joseki positions. or no? and it will support helpers (constraints/
actions) as the rest of the matchers does.

Paul