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Game Courier Preset for Go

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Author: Fergus Duniho.

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Go Preset for Game Courier. Play Go with Game Courier.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2023 05:04 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from Tue Apr 11 09:12 PM:

The counting now appears to be working correctly. It counts both the stones belonging to a player and the empty spaces surrounded only by that player's stones and not by any of the other player's stones.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2023 09:12 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from 12:59 PM:

I see I still haven't written the subroutine for adding up scores. Here is a sample game I did for testing purposes:

1. s*d5 
1... S*e5 
2. s*e6 
2... S*e4 
3. s*f5 
3... S*e3 
4. s*f4 
4... S*h7 
5. s*d4 
5... S*b7 
6. s*f3 
6... S*e7 
7. s*d3 
7... S*h2 
8. s*d2 
8... S*e2 
9. s*e1 
9... S*f2 
10. s*g2 
10... S*f1 
11. s*g1 
11... S*f6 
12. s*e4 
12... S*h5 
13. pass 
13... pass // - White has won #scorew to #scoreb -

The result is wrong, because it has not actually calculated the scores, and it is just favoring the variable name that comes later alphabetically.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2023 12:59 PM EDT:

I thought I had finished programming this game, but when I checked it out last night, it was missing the subroutine for removing stones without any liberties. So, I've written a new subroutine for that, and it seems to be working now.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 11:43 AM EDT:

In time, perhaps. Each version of Go will require some editing of the preset to accommodate a different board. Tony Quintanilla has already made some boards that could be used if someone wants to modify this preset to work with them.

Daniil Frolov wrote on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 03:13 AM EDT:

Why not 19x19 variation? For the reason that most of CV members usually spend free time at playing chess, and will tipically wish to play rather short 9x9 game? Well, more or less it's true, but why not include 19x19 board as alternative variation?

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