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http://dx.doi.org/10.7583/JKGS.2020.20.2.91

Contour Tracing to Solve Life-and-Death Problem in Go  

Lee, Byung-Doo (Department of Computer Science, YongIn University)
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Journal of Korea Game Society / v.20, no.2, 2020 , pp. 91-100 More about this Journal
Abstract
Life-and-death problem in Go is a fundamental problem to be overcome for implementing a computer Go. To solve it, an important consideration is to find out who surrounds or is surrounded between black and white players. To figure out the boundary between black and white groups, we applied an influence function and a contour tracing algorithm. We found that applying the Moore-neighbor tracing among various contour tracing algorithms can create boundaries, and also suggested the possibility of tremendously reducing the search space of a game tree.
Keywords
Go; life-and-death problem; influence function; contour tracing; Moore-neighbor tracing;
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