Yes. The theory behind this is described in Berlekamp's "The Economist's View
of Combinatorial Games"
http://www.msri.org/publications/books/Book29/files/ber.pdf
Martin
> It is possible to calculate the importance of tedomari.
>
> Suppose we play a game ignoring tedomari. As the value of sente drops from
> (about) 14 to 0, which will each get about seven points' worth of tedomari
> effect, though we won't be aware of it. Now suppose we play another game, in
> which you manage the tedomari perfectly, while I ignore it. You will gain
> all 14 points' worth. Thus you will win the second game by 14 more points
> than the first. So the value of understanding and applying tedomari
> perfectly is twice the correct value of komi, or the marginal value of one
> handicap stone.
>
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