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Weekly Challenge 28: Go without captures

#1

Weekly Challenge 28: Go without captures

**UPDATED**
Win a game of Go 9x9 vs @PS-Greedy-One-Move with the least number of captures.

You can easily check the number of captures by looking at the number with the blue background on the penultimate move of the game (before dead stone selection).

For this challenge, you must use the following settings of: Handicap 0, and Komi 0.

Adjudication Criteria:
1. Fewest Captures
2. Biggest Score Difference (at the end of the game)
3. Earliest Entry
Closing Date: Monday 9th October 1200 UTC+0

#7

We did give this challenge a test last week, but we might need to adjust this one, as this isn't how we expected it to go (pun intended)...

#8

Yeah I wasn’t really sure what the idea was behind it, but when I’m seeing @tititogepi ’s attempts this feels like the direction it has to go to get zero captures - hope the bot passes so you get additional stones on the board.

Then you get komi + additional stones when black passes + any surrounded points that are illegal for black You technically gain a point for placing a stone in a disputed area while black fills in a point they already surround or loosely surround (which would be a risky gamble to contest with it randomly capturing).

Bonus points if you do it with dead groups and the bot doesn’t capture them randomly but passes :P

#10

I’m not sure this substantially changes the challenge.

It’s harder in that greedy one move will actually capture pieces but I think you just want to abuse the scoring and win by a small margin.

E.g. 0 captures Black +1 point

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