Re: [gnugo-devel] Semeai weirdness.

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> > All three cases are possible. If A wins the semeai with B
> > and A is to move, yet if it takes a lot of moves to remove B
> > from the board, A may lose the second semeai and A is dead.
> > On the other hand if B has fewer liberties, A may be alive.
> 
> I don't understand. If capturing B is not sufficient to live, then
> surely owl_analyze_semai(A, B) should not report that A lives by winning
> the semeai against B?

I think you are right in this example although it is not
completely clear to me. But I doubt that the information
available to newsemeai is always sufficient to determine the correct
answer.

However the function should do the best it can and it probably
needs to be rewritten.

Dan