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Environmental Go
   

Environmental Go, devised by [ext] Prof. E. R. Berlekamp, adds an environment of simple gote to regular go. This environment consists of a stack of coupons with certain values, usually one with each value between 1/2 and 20. At her turn a player may take a coupon instead of playing on the board. Taking a coupon, like a board play, removes any ban on taking a ko.

One purpose of environmental go is to find out the opinions of professionals about the size of the largest play at any time. If the stack of cards were thick enough, with a very small increment between the values of coupons, then the largest play would always be the best play.

Jiang Jujo? and Rui Nai Wei played the First Environmental Go game in April, 1998. Since then they have played a couple of more. An analysis of the first game will appear in More Games of No Chance, R. Nowakowski, ed., in 2002.

Some of the Environmental Go games can be found [ext] here.



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