Publication: Two Applications of a Life & Death Problem Solver in Go

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Title	Two Applications of a Life & Death Problem Solver in Go
Authors/Editors*	T Wolf
Where published*	Journal of ÃGAI,
How published*	Journal
Year*	2007
Volume	26
Number	2
Pages	11-18
Publisher
Keywords	Computer Go, life & death in Go, tsumego, database of eyes in Go
Link	http://lie.math.brocku.ca/twolf/papers/over.ps
Abstract	We describe two recent applications of the computer program GoTools that solves life & death problems in the game of Go. In one of them a large database of single eyes fully surrounded by one chain is constructed and the positions are analyzed. Strange positions that appear are filtered out and some are presented in this paper. A second application in the form of a program ScanLD allows to check thoroughly life & death problems together with given solutions. When applied to a book of 500 Korean problems, a substantial number of bugs was detected, some of which are shown in this paper.