Re:The optimal state of any linear game is a draw
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The normal Go rule is that two passes in a row end the game.
Re:The optimal state of any linear game is a draw
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Not quite correct as regards to Go. Because Go allows for a pass play, and two passes ends the game it is known that there is not a winning strategy for white (the second player).
Proof: If white had such a strategy, black would pass as his first move, thus stealing the strategy.
It seems almost certain that with perfect play, black wins a 19x19 game of go by somewhere between 6 and 9 points. Currently, professional play utilizes a 5.5 to 7.5 compensation for playing second.
The installer communicates with the smart card to get permission and the decryption key needed to finish the install. So, reverse engineer the installer and run one legitimate install to capture the decryption key and you can make as many installs as you want.
It's a little more secure if the disk has to be in a drive to run the final software, and it expects to communicate with the smart card to authenticate authorization to run.
> Here in north Texas, the NTTA is the toll authority. If you drive around town, > you can find Amtech transponders mounted high up on telephone poles -- miles away > from the tollroads! Not only does NTTA track you on the tollway, they are apparently > keeping tabs on you when you're not on the tollway.
> For the non-believers in Dallas: Look in the median on Valley View, just west of Marsh in Farmers Branch.
I'm not saying that this is a good thing, but this is probably to study where to put new tollways. They *are* planning the new section of 190 in that area.
I know someone who was in Senegal several years pack in the Peace Corp.
It's very hot there. Standard hospitality is to hand a one-quart mug of water to all arriving guests. They chug it, and the host refills it. After an average of 3 refills the guest declines more water.
The would fully understand a Big-Gulp.
What you say is correct, but incomplete. Most of the reasons you give sound like they could be solved with brute force, once computers get faster.
We can say (probably truthfully) that Go is big enough that computers will never be fast enough, but people used to say this about Chess as well.
You touch on things with the discussion of scoring. Because Go is a game of points, rather than sudden death like Chess, a player MUST estimate the score to evaluate a position.
This can be very difficult. If group A is worth 20 points for Black, and group B is worth 30 then White may make a move that threatens both groups. It seems that white should play to protect group b, however there may be a move to protect group a that also attacks group C. Or, more subtley, sets things up for a future attack on either group C or D.
Even more complex may be an attack on a group of whites that is worth 80 points, is destined to fail, but changes the board configuration such that both A and B may be saved.
None of these are terribly uncommon in a high level game of go. As a 7 kyu (far from really strong) I use all of them at one time or another.
So, computers have a really hard time figuring out what to count.
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The normal Go rule is that two passes in a row end the game.
Not quite correct as regards to Go. Because Go allows for a pass play, and two passes ends the game it is known that there is not a winning strategy for white (the second player).
Proof: If white had such a strategy, black would pass as his first move, thus stealing the strategy.
It seems almost certain that with perfect play, black wins a 19x19 game of go by somewhere between 6 and 9 points. Currently, professional play utilizes a 5.5 to 7.5 compensation for playing second.
It looks like this is for software packages.
The installer communicates with the smart card to get permission and the decryption key needed to finish the install. So, reverse engineer the installer and run one legitimate install to capture the decryption key and you can make as many installs as you want.
It's a little more secure if the disk has to be in a drive to run the final software, and it expects to communicate with the smart card to authenticate authorization to run.
> Here in north Texas, the NTTA is the toll authority. If you drive around town,
> you can find Amtech transponders mounted high up on telephone poles -- miles away
> from the tollroads! Not only does NTTA track you on the tollway, they are apparently
> keeping tabs on you when you're not on the tollway.
> For the non-believers in Dallas: Look in the median on Valley View, just west of Marsh in Farmers Branch.
I'm not saying that this is a good thing, but this is probably to study where to put new tollways. They *are* planning the new section of 190 in that area.
I know someone who was in Senegal several years pack in the Peace Corp. It's very hot there. Standard hospitality is to hand a one-quart mug of water to all arriving guests. They chug it, and the host refills it. After an average of 3 refills the guest declines more water. The would fully understand a Big-Gulp.
> erase all the footage of Elvis Presley's "obscene" hip gyrations and file the tits off the Statue of Liberty...
As I understand it, Lady Liberty's tits are covered because the French didn't want to offend American sensibilities.
What you say is correct, but incomplete. Most of the reasons you give sound like they could be solved with brute force, once computers get faster.
We can say (probably truthfully) that Go is big enough that computers will never be fast enough, but people used to say this about Chess as well.
You touch on things with the discussion of scoring. Because Go is a game of points, rather than sudden death like Chess, a player MUST estimate the score to evaluate a position.
This can be very difficult. If group A is worth 20 points for Black, and group B is worth 30 then White may make a move that threatens both groups. It seems that white should play to protect group b, however there may be a move to protect group a that also attacks group C. Or, more subtley, sets things up for a future attack on either group C or D.
Even more complex may be an attack on a group of whites that is worth 80 points, is destined to fail, but changes the board configuration such that both A and B may be saved.
None of these are terribly uncommon in a high level game of go. As a 7 kyu (far from really strong) I use all of them at one time or another.
So, computers have a really hard time figuring out what to count.
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