Attached are two test games I played against Valkyria. Valkyria used 1 minute per move. The komi was 9.5 and with both playing white once. White won both games but when Valkyria played white it could have won easily with 6.5 instead of 0.5. So judging from these two games it played better than me.
These games are quite calm, sometimes 7x7 are much more tactical than this. -Magnus
(;FF[4]CA[Cp1252]AP[GoGui:0.9]SZ[7]KM[9.5]PB[Valkyria]PW[Magnus]WR[2 Dan] DT[2006-10-12]RE[W+Resign] ;B[cd] C[Since black loses with komi 9.5 the library picks any move randomly here to test the opponent.] ;W[dd];B[dc];W[cc];B[ec]C[As white keeping D4 alive almost surely wins.];W[ce] ;B[bd];W[ed];B[fd];W[fe] ;B[df];W[de];B[be];W[cf];B[fc];W[bf];B[bc];W[ef] C[This is was a safe move by me. I kind of thinking I learned from watching MC-programs play. I have just enough safe territory to be sure of a win. At least this was what I thought.] ;B[af];W[gd] ;B[gc];W[ge];B[bg];W[cg];B[ae] C[White has 28.5 for sure Blacks has 28 for sure I had wrongly approximated the last two points as a 50/50 split giving me 0.5 win. Now the ko decided who get the last two points.] ;W[ag] C[But fortunatley I have more ko threats than black thanks to C6. Valkyria is aware of this too.] ;B[ff];W[fg];B[bg];W[cb] ;B[bb];W[ag];B[gf];W[gg] C[Black Resigns. Here Valkyria reads until it runs out of ko threats.];B[bg] C[One continuation is as follows.];W[db];B[eb];W[ag];B[dg];W[eg] ;B[bg];W[ea];B[ca];W[ag];B[da];W[bg];B[fa]C[W+2.5])
(;FF[4]CA[Cp1252]AP[GoGui:0.9]SZ[7]KM[9.5]PB[Magnus]PW[Valkyria]BR[2 Dan] DT[2006-10-12]RE[W+0.5] ;B[dd];W[cd];B[cc];W[dc];B[ce];W[ed]C[Opening library move by Valkyria];B[de] C[I try something new, otherwise B4 would be normal.];W[ec] C[Since I deviated I should now be behind a nedd to to put Valkyria to a test.] ;B[fe]C[F3 is my test it tries to grab as much a possible.];W[cb] ;B[bd];W[ee];B[ef];W[df] C[Valkyria evaluation is already very positive. I am not sure if D2 is good, but it is certainly good enough to win.] ;B[ff];W[bc] C[Tricky choice. Against many go programs I would always play a ko fight, but against MC-programs I often hesitate unless I now it is a good thing. here I could not even see as ko threat, so I kept hoping for monkey jump next move.] ;B[cd];W[bb];B[gb] C[This was nice to play but white retaliated with some moves I had overlooked.] ;W[cf] ;B[bf];W[fb];B[gd];W[ad];B[be];W[af];B[bg];W[fa];B[fd];W[db] ;B[fc]C[White now has enough territory to win and only worries about eyeshape] (;W[ac];B[ae];W[ea];B[gc];W[ga]) (;W[ae];B[dg];W[ac];B[cg];W[ag];B[gc];W[ga] C[This is the score if white had played to maximize the score. White has 32.5 Black has 26 W + 6.5] ))
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