Re: [gnugo-devel] a patch from a newbie :)

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Portela Fenand wrote:

> I would like to submit a patch for revision/discussion. I tried to solve the
> problem in blunder.tst:12 and after a long thought (+ reading and tracing the
> source code), I came up with the attached patch. I have been very
> conservative, since I didn't allow for any breakage in the regressions, but I
> think that this patch has a good margin for improvements. But before working
> any further on it and since it involves some important changes (see gnugo.h),
> I would like it to be first reviewed and discussed here.
> 
> Summary: 3 PASSes and no FAILs.

Could you explain the meaning of HALFWIN and HALFLOSS and the
general intent of the patch?

I looked at blunder:12. Arend: is there any relevance of the recent
patch arend_3_7.2 to this problem? It is a case where part of the
dragon can be discarded so the dragon cannot be owl attacked. Since
the number of liberties is small, I would think D4 should be a
tactical attack if fourlib_depth is sufficient.

Dan