endgame (Was [computer-go] Re: Should 9x9 komi be 8.0 ?])

[Nick Wedd]

In message <20080305033506.GE17253 at machine.or.cz>, Petr Baudis 
<pasky at ucw.cz> writes
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:01:02PM -0500, steve uurtamo wrote:
>> cool.  do you have any examples from a 19x19 game?  that's what
>> i was referring to when i said that i've never seen an MC player
>> play out a ko fight.
>
>MoGo can indeed play out some rather spectacular ko fights;
>unfortunately, I couldn't find any quickly, so here is at least an
>example of a shorter one. Unfortunately, the 5d it is playing a
>six-stones game against plays a non-working threat in the end and loses.
>
>The ko fight starts at move 158.

and ends at move 182, when MoGo recognises that the 5-dan's ko threat 
doesn't work, and connects the ko instead of answering it.

I found this impressive.

Nick
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Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk