I think that the original description of the position should have said
'killable' rather than 'dead', and that David missed the fact that
it is White to move.

At 08:06 27/03/2008, Hideki wrote:

David Fotland: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I just looked at this position and it looks like a win for black in the
>first position.  Many Faces evaluates it as a win for black, and plays c1 to
>save the lower left black group with almost no thinking time.
>
>Mogo is correct because the lower left black group is not dead.

I'm sorry if wrong but the black seems dead by B5 after C1, isn't
it?

-Hideki

>David
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Woodcraft
>> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:49 AM
>> To: computer-go
>> Subject: [computer-go] Life and Death
>>
>> I've included two 13x13 positions below. In both positions it is
>> Black's
>> move.
>>
>> The first position is simplified from a real game. Black has two
>> enclosed dead groups, and White has a small but easy win.
>>
>> The second position is a modified version of the first in which the
>> dead
>> groups are more obviously dead.
>>
>> If I try MogoRelease3 playing as Black on position 2, it shows a 20%
>> score and resigns either immediately or after a couple of moves.
>>
>> If I try it on position 1, it shows a score of 70%+ for Black, and
>> continues to play until White takes steps to remove the dead groups
>> from
>> the board. I've tested with up to 2^24 playouts.
>>
>> I have tried increasing --collectorLimitTreeSize and --limitTreeSize
>> (like bigMogo in the scalability study), but I can't set them much
>> higher than the default on this machine without running out of memory.
>>
>> I'd be interested to see if someone with a bigger computer can find out
>> what resources it needs to judge this position well, and to see how
>> other engines do.
>>
>> Position 1
>>
>> (;GM[1]FF[4]
>> CA[UTF-8]
>> SZ[13]
>> HA[0]
>> KM[0.5]
>> AB[jb:kb][cb:cc][kc][bd:cd][jd:ld][be][he][cf:df][bg][gb:gh]
>> [ig:ih][jh:kh][eg:ei][li][aj:bj][hi:hj][lk][al][ck:cl][ji:jl]
>> [dm][im]
>> AW[ia:ja][ib][hc:jc][db:dd][hd:id][ce:de][ie][ke:le][bf][hf:jf]
>> [lf][jg:kg][mg][lh][ai:di][gi][mi][cj][ej:gj][ij][dk:fk][hk:ik]
>> [dl][il][bm][fl:fm][hm]
>> )
>>
>> Position 2
>>
>> (;GM[1]FF[4]
>> CA[UTF-8]
>> SZ[13]
>> HA[0]
>> KM[0.5]
>> AB[jb:mb][cb:cc][kc][bd:cd][jd:md][be][he][cf:df][bg][gb:gh]
>> [ig:ih][jh:kh][eg:ei][li][aj:bj][hi:hj][bk:ck][lk][al][cl]
>> [ji:jl][im]
>> AW[ia:la][ib][hc:jc][mc][db:dd][hd:id][ce:de][ie][ke:le][bf]
>> [hf:jf][lf][jg:kg][mg][lh][ai:di][gi][mi][cj][ej:gj][ij][dk:fk]
>> [hk:ik][dl][fl][il][bm:cm][em:fm][hm]
>> )
>>
>> -M-
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