In evaluating a local position in go, players want to know its current territorial count and the value of a local play. Many go positions are combinatorial games; the mean value of the game corresponds to the count and its temperature corresponds to the value of the play. Thermography finds the mean value and temperature of a combinatorial game. However, go positions often include kos, repetitive positions which are not classical combinatorial games. Thermography has been generalized to include positions containing a single ko. This paper extends thermography further to include positions with multiple kos. It also introduces a method for pruning redundant branches of the game tree.
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Spight, W. L. (1999). Extended thermography for multiple kos in go. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 1558, pp. 232–251). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48957-6_16
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