Ticket #114 (new task)
Opened 2 years ago
Should owl reading declare win if the original stones are captured?
| Reported by: | gunnar | Owned by: | gnugo |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 3.8 |
| Component: | source | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | patch: | no |
Description
This ticket is a successor of #43.
The current policy of the owl reading is to declare win if all the original stones have been captured. This is problematic if reading is done for a light stone which it would be fine to sacrifice while making life with other stones. In other situations it can be uninteresting if other stones live, e.g. having a small tail connect out to an already living dragon. This is particularly true if the original stones are cutting stones or part of a semeai.
Is there a way to resolve this problem?
An additional issue is that while capturing all original stones gives a win, this only happens by chance. No effort is made to capture even a single remaining tactically unstable original string.
