Many Faces also plays c9 right away, with about 66% win for O, expecting A8
then A6.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Magnus Persson
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 7:05 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] Position Rich in Lessons
> 
> Quoting Brian Sheppard <[email protected]>:
> 
> >
> > Further analysis convinced me that O is actually winning this game. My
> > current
> > engine likes A8 for O until iteration 7000, and then F9 for O, and
> switches
> > to the winning move only on iteration 143,000. But it doesn't really
> "see"
> > the win, because the evaluation remains around 50.3% no matter how long
> > Pebbles
> > searches.
> 
> What komi did you use? It is nice to have the sgf in addition to the
> position.
> 
> Anyway I entered the position manually with komi 7.5, and Valkyria
> plays C9 right away winning the semeai in the upper right corner and
> after that white wins 0.5 even if black gets everything else.
> 
> Could it be that Pebbles have trouble seeing that the semeai is won
> after white C9. Valkyria expects black A8 after C9 which delays the
> capture of the white stones. Sometimes Valkyria has (or used to)
> problems evaluating such semeais.
> 
> -Magnus
> 
> 
> --
> Magnus Persson
> Berlin, Germany
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