Hi Nick,

"Nick Wedd" <mapr...@gmail.com>:
> The large peak at the left of each graph, around 85 
> to the left of the main peak, must show the outcomes 
> if White kills Black's O16 group.  

Right.

> But a kyu-player can see that that group is 
> unconditionally alive: it has an eye at K19, with K17 and 
> P14 as miai for a second eye.  

A human kyu player, right.

> Do you think that the presence of that peak had an effect 
> on the result of the game?
 
I would say so. 

"Fixing" that group as alive would shift the white mountain (at -85)
to the center, where something like half would end in white and the
other half in black. This would have led to rather different winning
percents.

Ingo.
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