Life In 19x19

How about this perspective: the problem will remain computational until the game has been mapped.

1. think of a 4x4 board - or some other reasonable minimum (keeping this vague on purpose) - is there a complete tree? Might be more complex than tic tac toe, which I have read has been mapped ...

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I have a modest GTX 1660, which does at least do well in the ...

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Most lines close to 50% are most likely to be optimal, lines outside +/- 5% are more likely to be suboptimal

I've already verified that 3-3 and 3-4 are not optimal by searching from those positions manually

So the top four moves are:

5-5 tengen
4-4 hoshi
5-4 takamoku
5-3 mokuhazushi

I didn't put in a ton of time on this, but at move 1 it already seems basically correct

This is Japanese KataGo rules with 6 komi using a 60b network

To have actual good analysis I would need about this many playouts on each variation, so I'm still ways out from making any actual claims other than ...

The example that favors White in Chinese counting is pretty wild. Shows why even pros playing in Chinese rules can make mistakes that would lead to the same score in territory counting.

There is not enough material to draw any general conclusions. However, accurate reading always helps, and one should probably capture any cutting stone on the third line immediately if possible.
In these sorts of atari situations, I believe that in general stronger (let's say 1d) players are much ...

For 5-3 there's an ogeima variation, and a jump variation

because there's less symmetry I investigated the ogeima one first, and it seems once you establish the two white groups the game goes directly to the endgame

For tengen it only likes really two sequences, but that just means it can't see the unlikely draws

I did 3-4 and there are a lot of draws

but a lot of moves are not obviously incorrect (but after playing it leads to a loss), so the amount of variations in 3-4 is staggering

Seems like 60b KataGo with a lot of playouts thinks it's a draw

One such sequence is something like this, it doesn't mean it doesn't have blind spots or alternate sequences, but this is a ton of playouts. Basically the correct komi for Japanese seems to be 6 on 9x9 boards

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I need some comments from rules experts on the forum.

Board and plays

1. A go board consists of intersecting curves.

Commentary: Most go boards use straight lines to form a flat grid. The most popular sizes consist of 9x9, 13x13, and 19x19 intersections.

2. A play occupies one intersection ...

We can imagine the 6.5 komi as a Black pass stone on the side of the board and six in White's bowl.

$$B
$$ ---------
$$ | . . . . X O . . . |
$$ | . . . . X O . . . |
$$ | . . . . X O . . . |
$$ | . . . . X O . . . |
$$ | . . . . X O . . . |
$$ | . . . . X O . . . |
$$ | . . . . X O ...

some moves that are not even eyes are considered points in this ruleset, and don't have to be made provided the automatic scoring is sufficiently good. In practice, it will be quite difficult to write a logical ruleset that automatically distinguishes such "hidden" points. Most area scoring ...