Re: [gnugo-devel] Hoshi fixes

[Evan Berggren Daniel]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 address@hidden wrote:

> If EJ72 is omitted then GNU Go must be taught to play the
> shoulder hit. This leads to a complicated situation. I am
> doubtful that this pattern should be removed.

My hoshi patch (the second of the two, not yet on the devel page) does
exactly that.

> Assuming that the fourth line stone is at the 4-4 point,
> perhaps the solution is to omit the first one space jump
> but to play a kakari on the other side. The original kakari
> stone is light since the 3-3 point is still open.

Interesting continuation; I can add this variation to the joseki database
if you think we should.

Evan Daniel