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

[Arend Bayer]

One (not important) detail I forgot to mention:

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Portela Fernand wrote:

> Dan wrote:
>
> > Could you explain the meaning of HALFWIN and HALFLOSS and the
> > general intent of the patch?
>
> The meanings would be something like :
>
> * HALFWIN : attack failed ( dragon not killed ), but something
>             "substantial" can be captured.
> * HALFLOSS : defense successfull ( dragon alive ), but something
>              "substantial" has to be sacrificed.
This distinction seems redundant to me. From the context we always know
(_have_ to know) whether this is a result from owl_attack or owl_defend.
So it would be sufficient to do:

WIN     4
KO_A    3
HALFWIN 2
KO_B    1
LOOSE   0

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