[pbmserv] ko fights

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

Missed the initial email by reading too fast.

As a go player (okay former go player really) I want
to take offense at the "annoying quirk" comment :-).

Obviously you would prefer your group to be
unconditionally alive, but alive up to a ko fight is a
good middle ground (considering seki and death are the
alternatives).

Cheers,

Lyman

--- pbmserv@gamerz.net wrote:
> It's true that ko never happens in Orbit.  To my
> taste that's a good thing,
> however there are many Go players who enjoy fighting
> ko's since they can be
> very tricky indeed.  In my Go-club-playing days
> (Triangle Go Club in Chapel
> Hill, NC), I tended to avoid ko's when I could
> reasonably do so, but there
> were several people who liked to start ko fights. 
> Whether or not ko is bad
> or good in a game is perhaps something that could be
> argued about at length.
> 
> Anyway, Orbit, though technically a Go variant, is
> not as close to Go as it
> would appear at first glance.  The variant
> Conversion Go
> (http://home.fuse.net/swmeyers/conversion.htm) uses
> the mechanism of
> liberties and is closer to Go in feel.  There are no
> ko's in Conversion Go
> either, but again whether that's good or bad may be
> a matter of taste.
> 
> Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "camb via" <pbmserv@gamerz.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:42 AM
> Subject: Message from camb via PBM Server
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > It just struck me that ko will never happen in
> Orbit. Is this true? If so
> > then it fixes one of the annoying quirks of
> Go-like games.
> >
> > Cameron
> >
> >
> 
> 
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