Life In 19x19

Li Zhe says that his analysis intends to distinguish between B+8 and B+9 (i.e. if black gets the last dame to achieve B+9, Li will count this as B+8, as in Japanese rules), although he will use the Chinese rules in case of seki. He reached the conclusion of B+9 in the article, but according to some ...

I should've included a link to Li Zhe's article, which has been posted before on the leela-zero issues: https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zer ... Li.Zhe.pdf
https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero/issues/1835

fyi, someone has recently made some videos in Chinese with the help of KataGo and with the feedback from Li Zhe himself:
https://b23.tv/BV1XT4y1G7St
https://b23.tv/BV1Ra4y1x7pi
https://b23.tv/BV19V411o7Xs
Additional videos with KataGo are found in https://space.bilibili.com/43473472

This is maybe OT, but has anyone tested DNN-based bots (Leela Zero, KataGo, SAI, etc.) on the whole-board endgame problems (attached) in Appendix C of [BW94], including the 9-dan stumping problem [0] and many 9x9 problems? (LZ may be less appropriate due to fixed 7.5 komi.) Additional problems are ...