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3. Usage

Playing against Randyplus is not particularly interesting for human beings, but as mentioned above Randyplus is intended as a research tool.

Assumedly, a random player is the worst possible Go player.

Randyplus will play perfectly random moves. It plays so randomly that on a 10-game series on a 9 x 9 board against Wallyplus, it will usually lose all games by 81 points. This is due to the fact that Randyplus fills in its own eyes, as the last legal moves it can play. I have added a command-line option that prevents Randyplus from filling-in its own single liberty eyes. Note that the algorithm is very simple and does not distinguish between false eyes and real eyes.

3.1 General Usage

Randyplus can be setup to pass a given percentage of moves. One can also specify whether Randyplus should be allowed to fill in its own eyes or not. These are run-time options available from the command line.


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