[computer-go] Positions illustrative of computer stupidity ?

[Chrilly]

The attached position shows the "Kirtag Problem". I have named it after the 
Austrian proverb "Man kann nur auf einem Kirtag tanzen" (One can dance only 
on one village-party***).
More mathematically it is the subgame problem. White to move, what is the 
status of the white marked stones. Treated locally, each stone can be easily 
saved, but alas, one can dance only on one party.

*** I have looked in online-dictionaries for the correct translation of 
"Kirtag". I have not found an entry, because the dictionaries are made by 
German institutions. Kirtag is a typical Austrian word and the Germans do 
not know it.
Every village has traditionally once in a year a feast. Usually its on the 
day of the village-patron/saint. If two nearby villages have e.g. St.George 
as patron, the Kirtag is on the same day and one gets the problem which 
Kirtag one should attend. Usually the Kirtag with the more interesting 
girls/boys. But this depends also on their choice. In modern times the disco 
has replaced the Kirtag. One should probably rename it the "disco-problem". 
Modern kids try to solve the dicso-problem by driving with the car from one 
disco to the next. They spent now most of the time driving around and not 
with dancing. This is also a fundamental computer-go problem. The programm 
can not decide where to dance and spends its tempo by jumping around from 
one subgame to the next.

Chrilly 
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