Life In 19x19

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.50]TM[1800]OT[5x30 byo-yomi]
PW[ezrom]PB[cdh473]WR[13k]BR[14k]DT[2013-12-09]PC[The KGS Go Server at http://www.gokgs.com/]C[ezrom [13k\]: hi
]RE[B+Resign]
;B[pp]BL[1794.387]
;W[pd]WL[1795.614]C[cdh473 [14k\]: Hello
ezrom [13k\]: gg ...

One small side note: At the end of the game the w stones in lower right corner were marked dead, which is obviously wrong. Since this makes 30 pts difference the result should have been W+18.5 instead.

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