Thanks to David Fotland for the supporting information. 

In fairness to Jeff's argument, we'd have to look at the percentage of games 
where the strategy was used, versus the games where the strategy was 
successful. 

On the other hand, an 80% success rate is an unreasonable demand; anything over 
50% would be useful. 
 
An alternate way to find the games info is to click on the Users tab, the User 
information; enter Manyfaces1, and then click on the Games tab.

Or, go to the kgs archives: 

http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=manyfaces1


This player seems to specialize in slaying bots: 

http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=syusaku

He or she has a very high success rate. 


----- Original Message ----
> From: David Fotland <[email protected]>
> 
> Go to kgs, Computer Go room, right click on ManyFaces1, select View  Info,
> select the Games tab, and look for games where white is 3d or higher,  and
> where white wins.  These games are often decided by a big unsettled  semeai,
> often involving a ko.  I don't think
> Semeai accounts for 80%  of the losses, but it might be 80% if you include  ko
> fights.
> 
> David
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff  Nowakowski
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:34 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> >  Subject: Re: [Computer-go] anti-pondering
> > 
> > On 09/15/2010 07:09  AM, terry mcintyre wrote:
> > > There are a fair number of joseki  variations which have branches where
> you
> > are
> > > not  supposed to play X because you lose a capturing race. Initiate such
> a
> >  > variation, leave it unfinished, move on to the next corner, repeat.
> > 
> > The bot has to comply. It's one thing to speculate, it's quite  another
> > to demonstrate over a series of games that the bot consistently  gets
> > into capturing races that it then loses. I'd love to see this  bot-killer
> > strategy clearly exposed -- not just occasionally, but with  something
> > like 80% or greater reliability.
> > 
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