Life In 19x19

It is possible for Kombilo to give you statistics on the move number that a specified point on the board is played?

An average would do, but it would be more interesting to see a graph showing its frequency distribution throughout all games.

I am specifically interested in when the 3-2 point is played, if you already occupy the 3-3 point.

I did a search on the following position, which gives me a list of thousands of results, but I don't seem to be able to extract any data on move numbers from that list.

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I do not think that you can reliably do what you want to using kombilo. The search that you show will produce a list of games where the 3-2 is played after the 3-3 combined with the games where the 3-3 is played after the 3-2. In addition, it will only give you the games where there is no other stone in the area, e.g. on the other 3-2. You can use a search pattern with conditional stones (holding down the shift key and clicking in the search area will give you a green stone that represents a possible stone of either color).

Assuming that you can design a search that you are happy with, you then should 'export search results' under the database menu. In the resulting text box you want to push the 'include game list' button. This will append the list of all the games that are included in the search result. Each game record includes the move numbers that qualify under the search, separated by commas. Since your search is such a common occurrence, you will need to parse the records in the text file to separate all the occurrences in each game. Since there are 8 different 3-2 points, there can be quite a few examples in a single game. Due to ko fights in the corners there can even be more than 8 plays on 'the' 3-2 point in one game. Good luck!

Thank you.

It was a bit long-winded, but I got the data into Excel, where I was able to summarise it and produce a chart.

Do you know if there is a database program which has better support for move numbers?

PeterPeter wrote:Thank you.

It was a bit long-winded, but I got the data into Excel, where I was able to summarise it and produce a chart.

Do you know if there is a database program which has better support for move numbers?

I know next to nothing about programs other than kombilo.