A Study of Stone Influence, Influence Point, and Influence Area in Computer Go

This paper presents the Stone Influence, the Influence Point, and the Influence Area on computer Go. The Stone Influence is defined using the distance between stone and empty point. The Influence Point is defined using threshold value on the Stone Influence. The Influence Area is defined using lump of the Influence Points and its Core. In experiments using the Jeongseok data, the author obtained the threshold of Influence Points. The proposed method was verified by experiments where it was success fully applied to the influence in game of Go.