Time symmetric Go
Yasha Savelyev · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2010
In this note we describe a time symmetric version of the classical game Go. Time symmetry means that players move simultaneously without knowledge of the other player's move. In particular the classical Komi rule is removed, as well as the Ko rule. This is a perfect information game, (up to the fact that the other playe r's move is not not known on the given turn) to resolve the natural issues that can occur with simultaneity we use ideas inspired by quantum mechanics, but instead of a dice roll there is a certain deterministic ``quantum state'' reduction. This requires introduction of 2 new rules.