Re: [gnugo-devel] mixed patch

[Gunnar Farneback]

Inge wrote:
> I haven't looked at the actual patch yet, but doesn't this approach
> lead to combinatorial explosion?  Each attack and defense move reason
> is combined with a ko status for it giving very many move reasons
> which have to be treated separately in the code.

Yes, this doesn't scale very well if we make the ko analysis more
detailed.

> Wouldn't a better approach be to have one attack move reason, and then
> a parameter which tells wether it works right out or if there is a ko
> involved?  This way it would also be easier to change our handling of
> ko once we decide to handle more than just two kinds of simple ko.
> Approach move kos and multi-step kos are just two examples.  We
> wouldn't want a separate move reasons for attacking a string with a
> two-step approach move ko, right?

I considered this kind of solution but decided that it wasn't worth
the effort at this time. It requires more recoding than it may seem.

/Gunnar