Re: [gnugo-devel] influence patch

[Arend Bayer]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Gunnar Farneback wrote:

> It seems we are currently systematically undervaluing moves actually
> taking stones off the board. This includes, but is not limited to, ko
> captures. More precisely a captured stone counts for two points (in
> most cases) when evaluating territory, but when the move takes stones
> off the board, only one point is counted.

I have to blame myself for this. Browsing the CVS archives showed that
I did let a change in influence.c slip into arend_3_4.4, which was
otherwise unrelated.
(I checked that because I was pretty sure I had thought about this
before, and judged the behaviour correct.)

Arend