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[Petr Baudis]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:02:10PM +0000, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I see you made the following comment in that game record, which seems
> relevant to recent discussions here.
> 
> | mogo excels at reducing clear winning positions to close games they
> | lose because of botched up tsumego
> 
> Is it mogo botching up the tsumego or its opponents? Do you have any
> example game records for this?

MoGo, typically because of nakade. Note that it was kind of
tongue-in-cheek comment since I can't really prove that MoGo would win
any particular game if it did see the nakade, but here is an example
where it wasted several dying-in-gote moves in a corner throughout the
game.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.	-- J. W. von Goethe
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