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Seki is a situation of coexistence in the game of Go, where neither player can profitably capture the opponent’s stones. This paper presents a new method for deciding whether an enclosed area is or can become a seki. The method combines local search with global-level static analysis. Local search is used to identify possible seki, and reasoning on the global level is applied to determine which stones are safe with territory, which coexist in a seki and which are dead. Experimental results show that a safety-of-territory solver enhanced by this method can successfully recognize a large variety of local and global scale test positions related to seki. In contrast, the well-known program GNU Go can only solve easier problems from a test collection.
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Niu, X., Kishimoto, A., Müller, M. (2006). Recognizing Seki in Computer Go. In: van den Herik, H.J., Hsu, SC., Hsu, Ts., Donkers, H.H.L.M.(. (eds) Advances in Computer Games. ACG 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4250. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11922155_7
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