In the year 2000 I bought the book "EZ-GO: Oriental Strategy in a Nutshell", by Bruce and Sue Wilcox. Ki Press; 1996.
I can only recommend it for the many fresh ideas. A few days ago I found time again to read in it. This time I was impressed by Bruce Wilcox's strange opening "Great Wall", where Black starts with a loose wall made of 5 stones, spanning over the whole board. Bruce proposes to play this setup as a surprise weapon, even against stronger opponents. Now I made some autoplay tests, starting from the end position given in the appendix of this mail. * one game with Leela 3.16; Black won. * four games with MFoG 12.016; two wins each for Black and White. So there is some indiciation that the Great Wall works even for bots, who are not affected by psychology. I would like to know how other bots perform in autoplay after this opening. Cheers, Ingo. -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01
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