Re: [pbmserv] question about the game "Alak"

[Martin Møller Pedersen <traxplayer@gmail.com>]

On 10/7/05, Scott Huddleston <scotth@ichips.intel.com> wrote:
> As of two or three years ago, the pbm server recognizes 99.99% of
> the Chinese ko rule for go.  I added an algorithm that detects
> any repeated board position that follows a sequence of single
> stone captures.  This includes triple ko and any ko likely to
> arise in real play.
>
> But this probably doesn't help Alak.  Alak diverges from go in
> too many ways (no snapback allowed, go suicide survives in alak).
>

I think that you have to save all earlier board and compare them to
the current board
before you can detect a repeat position.

/Martin