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It's true that ko never happens in Orbit.  To my taste that's a good thing,
however there are many Go players who enjoy fighting ko's since they can be
very tricky indeed.  In my Go-club-playing days (Triangle Go Club in Chapel
Hill, NC), I tended to avoid ko's when I could reasonably do so, but there
were several people who liked to start ko fights.  Whether or not ko is bad
or good in a game is perhaps something that could be argued about at length.

Anyway, Orbit, though technically a Go variant, is not as close to Go as it
would appear at first glance.  The variant Conversion Go
(http://home.fuse.net/swmeyers/conversion.htm) uses the mechanism of
liberties and is closer to Go in feel.  There are no ko's in Conversion Go
either, but again whether that's good or bad may be a matter of taste.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "camb via" <pbmserv@gamerz.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:42 AM
Subject: Message from camb via PBM Server


> Hi,
>
> It just struck me that ko will never happen in Orbit. Is this true? If so
> then it fixes one of the annoying quirks of Go-like games.
>
> Cameron
>
>