rzone

This repository contains the source code for the paper:

A Study of Solving Life-and-Death Problems in Go Using Relevance-Zone Based Solvers*
Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Games

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Build

Preprocessing

git clone git@github.com:rockmanray/rzone.git
cd rzone/database
unzip radius3.zip

cd dcnn/ELF
unzip elf_v2_weight.zip

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Run with Container

podman run --rm -it \
  -v $HOME:/workspace \
  --runtime runc \
  --security-opt seccomp=unconfined \
  -w /workspace/rzone \
  --network="host" \
  rockmanray/gorzone

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Evaluation

The Life-and-Death (L&D) problems used in the experiments are provided in the tsumego directory.

For evaluation, each problem is encapsulated in JSON format, which specifies the problem settings such as ko rules, player to move, crucial stones, and other configurations required by the solver.

Run Scripts

For 7×7 problems:

./run_7x7.sh

For 19×19 problems:

./run_19x19.sh

Results

• All results are saved in JSON format under the result directory.

• Example:

  • For the 7×7 problem 1.json
  • Using AlphaZero with Relevance-Zone Search (RZS)
  • The output file will be:

    rzone/result/7x7/AZ_RZ/result_1.json
    

• The field NumSimulations in each result file indicates the number of search nodes required to solve the corresponding problem.