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Post #1 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:53 am 
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I used the reddit zip of 60 games as source ( Marcel Grünauer)

This is clearly Fan Tingyu 9p, in Korean p=f

this is my review, I didn't touch leelabot this time for fear it corrupts my thoughts

edit 01 Feb: have gone through using leela, and added a few variations



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Post #2 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:43 am 
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In the variation with white o18 descent and looking at black m17 invasion aji, white has the l17 bump answer to reduce problems (though still some sente moves from centre and locally speaking it might not actually be 100% alive but is enough until black plays 20 times in a row).

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Post #3 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:44 pm 
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I've edited it to show that

Game 2


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Post #4 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:39 am 
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Game 3

I find the naming of the players in this source a little suspect - the game marked as Yun ChanHee, I think I've seen named as being Lee Donghoon in two other places I think.




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Post #5 Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:31 am 
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Wouah ,thank you very much for share your toughts. You pointed some interesting shapes and sequences. Really appreciate your work ^^

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Post #6 Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:27 am 
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dhu163 wrote:
Game 3

I find the naming of the players in this source a little suspect - the game marked as Yun ChanHee, I think I've seen named as being Lee Donghoon in two other places I think.




I have read somewhere that dauning(P) was a shared account by several top pros, so maybe Lee Donghoon was a first guess then someone leaked who was using the account at the time. Just my 2 cents.


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Post #7 Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:22 am 
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wolfking - I think you are right, as this source also shows Kim Jiseok playing 1 not 2, corroborating Haylee's statement of cyberoro news.

Master changed how we look at the Chinese fuseki with the game with Fan Tingyu, and this game drastically changes how we see the Kobayashi fuseki.

I feel that Master likes to play active moves, not moves with loose and multiple meanings - either live clearly, or sacrifice, either good shape for own area or good shape to pressure opponent area. For example the Chinese fuseki attachment, or this Kobayashi one space not two space approach, and many others. For example I don't see it jumping 2 space when pincered approaching a 3-4, which was so common a few years or more back. Also it likes to cut quite viciously sometimes, inventing many new joseki like this (vs Iyama, Gu Li final game). My guess is that this is both a matter of its style and an improvement on how to find the best move.

Its local reading seems to be very powerful. Though these are fast games, it shows huge strength in cross-cut fighting. This was said to be a weakness after the Lee Sedol match, but the game 4 errors seem unlikely now. And if it has superior global judgement, how can it be beaten? I think we must maintain some scepticism over its global judgement as that is an area where perfection is impossible and there is always room for improvement.
Also it isn't clear how strong its endgame really is, given that it happily gives up 20 points in the end and still wins. I think that it probably has several weaknesses in the endgame, especially with ko, as there is too much reading to compute and too many weird but good choices for the neural network to find the exact best lines (comparatively to its strengths vs humans). And it is not that easy to program the maths involved.

But many pros say they think top pros can give it a good no komi game. Personally I have my doubts - I think it will show more strength under more pressure. Perhaps the time settings need to be very long.


Edit: A good summary of some of its type of innovations is attach on top of 3rd line stone, and shoulder hit 3rd line stone, your influence is weaker than you think, taking sente is very important. I wouldn't say it particularly likes the outside, but that it can use it well. It has some very interesting tenukis on weakish groups, placing a lot of importance on the value of each move. But it also confirms a lot of slightly uncertain ideas pros already have about joseki/fuseki

Game 4



I'll aim to look at these in sets of 3 letting the games simmer in my mind for a few days before applying leelabot. I also repeatedly edit when I notice more things.

Also I'm pretty sure last year or so Meng Tailing played something similar to the top right vs Kang Dongyun (maybe?) and commented why does no-one play like this?


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Post #8 Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:44 pm 
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so happy L19 is back up.

I've haven't made that much progress with my alphago review but here they are







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mostly just a rough overview so far, but no much complicated happens this game


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Post #10 Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:19 am 
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I thought I would resurrect this thread, now that DeepMind have released AlphaGo's evaluations of the opening of the Master series of games as part of the AlphaGo teach opening book. Michael Redmond reviewed quite a few of these games, and would often make comments like "I wish we knew what AlphaGo would do" or wondered how the human ended up looking behind already by move 30. We can't ask AlphaGo what it thinks of arbitrary moves, but we do have its "win %" metric (viewtopic.php?f=18&t=15312 for discussion of what exactly this is) for each move played in the game (up to move 30ish) plus the move it would play. Note that once we get into deeper positions AlphaGo Teach usually only gives us the game move and AG's preferred one, and the coloured circle legend on the website of "Green = move AG would play; Purple = move human would play" seems inaccurate: for these games purple means move human or alphago played in the actual game, whilst green is suggested variation from AlphaGo. Also we don't know how close in win % other moves not shown are to the one they chose to show us, they could be very close or far worse.

For the first game I chose Master game 2 vs Zhang Zilang 2p (weak pro goratings #557), as it's fairly calm opening with Master's distinctive shoulder hits, and both Redmond and dhu reviewed it so I can compare with those. Full game at http://www.alphago-games.com/view/event ... /1/move/50. Redmond's review at https://youtu.be/LJ8d_KTKZ-Q

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[go]$$B Zhang Zilang 2p (black) vs AlphaGo Master
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$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

AG gives black a 46-47 win % on the empty board with 7.5 komi, and Zhang starts with the best of 4-4 at 47.1% (it's not clear what the error is in these figures, I think about half a % given the fluctuations of subsequent moves, also AG may choose to play a move within about 1% of the best number). White 2 is shown as black down to 46.6%, but that position can't be worse for black than what AG expects when black played move 1, so there's some fluctuation/error. dhu noted Master as white doesn't seem to fear allowing diagonal opening, but for move 3 AG says the digonal 4-4 is best at 47.0 whilst the 3-4 played is 46.6! (though unclear how significant that is). Black 5 makes small shimari, big one (high or low about 1% better). In the real game Master played 6 as small low (45.4), but teaching tool shows small high a little better (44.7), we often saw it play this when black played 5 as the big low shimari. There was a consistent lesson from AlphaGo in those games and this tool that white can afford to make a shimari for move 6 in these sort of orthodox openings rather than splitting or approaching on the top side. In this case the k17 split is 47.8, 3.1% worse than e4, quite a significant mistake! o17 approach is 46.0, just -1.3. So the modern style of approach being better than split does seem to be correct, but we just didn't realise a shimari was even better!

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[go]$$Bcm7 Game
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AG approves of black 7 modern style shimari from 4-4 (lower right 3-3 invasion just 0.1% better) and then makes its own for 8 too. At this point k17 split is 2.1 worse, splits really suck according to AG, it seems corners are gold and sides are mud not silver. Black 9 then takes the middle side point, a good double purpose move in classic opening theory, but AG says q7 shoulder hit 1% better. Master made shoulder hit on left, but AG teaching tool says the other shoulder hit was 0.5% better, this is presumably the high temperature parameter during these games to increase variety (or did Aja have a readout of multiple moves and sometimes chose the non-top one?). Zhang blocked on the 4th line (in Master game 15 Park Junghwan blocked on the 3rd line), however AG says the best move is this tenuki to split left side and the following shoulder-hit obsessed continuation is expected!

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[go]$$Bm11 AGT recommendation
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After all the ignored should hits note 21 extension allowing hane at head of 2, and that it views 22 as sente for top side (what was follow-up if ignored, q17?) which allows the double hane to make a nice encircling for white.
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[go]$$Bm21 AGT variation
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Anyway, black didn't realise the correct response to a shoulder hit in the opening was tenuki, so white then jumped despite the AG teach saying q13 shoulder hit immediately .4% better: this is not so significant plus when there are two important sente points AG seems to like flitting between them. Interesting though it says that (as after the initial shoulder hit) after both f14 jump or q13 shoulder hit instead black should play the d9 split (a), it really is the key point of this opening. Instead black played 13 to split the lower side (normal said Redmond, or "locally it's a good move", no comment on globally) but this was 41.0, -2.3 on d9. I think we can see a similarity here to AG's unfavourable view of k17 (either for black or white), both moves are splitting a side with strong groups of the same colour in both corners, so to build or split in such an area is playing (relatively in terms of the whole board) close to thickness, the corner groups are untroubled by such a move so it's easy to tenuki and play in more open areas of the board. Also the d9 split AG recommends has some attacking effect against the top left shoulder hit group, splitting it from the lower left. White played checking extension from the right (dhu expected from left, AG teach and Redmond no comment, my answer is black AG would not play so simply as o3 allowing kick) and black made a standard 2 space extension to make a base, giving white sente to make another shoulder hit.
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[go]$$Wcm12 Game
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There's several interesting aspects in this short exchange. The 2-space extension to make a base is a very standard idea and elicited no comment from Redmond, but AG thinks it is slack and instead wants to (yes, you've guess it!) shoulder hit the shimari, then bully it into overconcentration from the other side and tenuki. I remember in the 1st AG vs Ke Jie game Bill talked about how making 2-space extensions for a base was an ancient idea but maybe we could be wrong about its importance too often.
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[go]$$Bm15 AGT's recommendation
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Another interesting detail is that AG actually prefers (by 1%) to shoulder hit the top right one move earlier (14 instead of 16), before the checking extension. At this point it expect black to block at q14 and then it would play n3 as before. I think this is not just AG MCTS random flitting, but a probe: if black answers the should hit with r13 or s12 (which is the move it recommends when it was played in the game) to place more emphasis on destroying white potential on the right side (and less thickness for top side and pressure on the shoulder hit) then it would no longer play the checking extension from the right side but from left or tenuki.

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[go]$$Bcm17 Game
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Black also blocks the 2nd shoulder hit, AG says slide to s12 0.4% better and then white would d10 extension on left. By the time white jumps for move 18 black is already down to 38%, a 10% loss! Zhang played the solid extension to p14, Redmond explained how he prefers not to wedge because it makes white stronger (if white answered extend at a black prefers not to make b-c exchange). However, I thought this was slow, and Redmond also preferred tenuki to reinforce the lower group at d. AG doesn't mention this move but recommends d10 instead, a full 3.4% better than the game move, a big mistake. It also shows an interesting continuation with black using the o3 attachment to make some extra eyes for the 2-space extension group, and then white using a tesuji to chop it off again at the expense of sacrificing a stone (as this is a AG self-play black stays around 39% win):
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[go]$$Bcm19 AGT recommendation for black 19
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$$ | . . . . O . . X . . X . O 3 8 . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9 7 0 . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

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[go]$$Bcm29 AGT continuation
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . . . . . . . . . X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . O . . . |
$$ | . . 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O , . . . . . 7 . . O O . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . . X . 4 X 6 O X O . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . 5 . 8 X X X O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]


The game continued as below, with Master playing another shoulder hit (fairly normal human one though) to press on the lower black group. AG actually shows an invasion at n17 to be a little better, but this leads to some crazy variations I don't understand and isn't in the theme of the actual game. Black blocked, and then wedged, both very normal moves, but AG thinks both are too simple and wants to use the thinness of the lower right corner to achieve a more efficient result (in Zhang's defence he probably didn't know he was playing AlphaGo in this early game so could just be playing ok simple moves which can beat most Tygem 9ds, if he knew he was playing AG maybe he would have searched harder for these more subtle and refined moves, but still tough in 30 seconds).
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[go]$$Bm17
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . . . . . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O , . . . . 4 7 6 . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . . X 5 9 X . O . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]


Here's AG's recommend first dodge. It must think diving into the corner at p2 is sente (thought I'd like to see what happens if white ignores and played j3 seeing as black ignored that shoulder hit) and then pushes up. White then tenukis to its n17 invasion obsession and black spends a thick move at j5.
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[go]$$Bm17
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . X . . 8 . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . . . . . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O , . . . 7 4 , . . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . . X . . X . O . 6 . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

So we don't actually get so see how p2 helps black if white continues, here's my first idea (if white will obediently answer o2 at q2):
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[go]$$Wcm24
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . . . . . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O , . . . X O , 1 5 . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . . X . . X 4 O . O . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2 X 3 . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]


AG's variation for black's wedge though is very elegant, and 5% better! Loses something in the corner but breaks white's centre seal.
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[go]$$Bm23
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . . . . . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O , . . . . O , O 7 . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . . X X . X 5 O . 2 1 4 . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]


After the wedge the game continued with Master's solid connection, perhaps a bit unusual locally (m4 normal) as it gives black m3 in sente, but reduces the power of j4 cut. Black is now at 30%, and then pushes through where white ignored before, but this drops the win% to 27% on move 29, what a quick collapse!
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[go]$$Wm26
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . X . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O . O . . . . . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O 4 O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . O 1 . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O , . . . . O X O . 3 . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . O . . X X X X 2 O . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]


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Many thanks for that detailed review. :D

In his 21st Century Go set Go Seigen anticipates AlphaGo's aversion to early wedges on the side and the early 4th line shoulder blows. :) Go Seigen was not always consistent about the side wedges, nor did he seem to favor the shoulder blows as often as Master. Zero seems more territory oriented than Go Seigen, but it is easy to imagine Master as a reincarnation of Go Seigen. ;)

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Uberdude - helpful review!

Unlike some of the other variations in the file with highly skewed winrates, this is one of the positions where I don't have even a slight sense of black as being behind. I'm curious, if you didn't know AlphaGo's evaluation at this point, would you have any preference for white in the final diagram you showed, and if so, why?

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Uberdude - helpful review!

Unlike some of the other variations in the file with highly skewed winrates, this is one of the positions where I don't have even a slight sense of black as being behind. I'm curious, if you didn't know AlphaGo's evaluation at this point, would you have any preference for white in the final diagram you showed, and if so, why?


Well, I suppose that a 30% estimate corresponds roughly to being around 20-25 pts. behind (after :w30:) by conventional human estimates. Out of curiosity, I evaluated that position with my simple, biased evaluation function, for an estimate of 26+ pts. for White. I usually figure the central bias at around 4 pts. at that stage of the game, which yields an estimate of around 22 pts. Surprise, surprise! :o ;)

Why the difference? Short answer: Black is too concentrated and too low -- at least, by how my function figures things.

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Instead black played 13 to split the lower side (normal said Redmond, or "locally it's a good move", no comment on globally) but this was 41.0, -2.3 on d9. I think we can see a similarity here to AG's unfavourable view of k17 (either for black or white), both moves are splitting a side with strong groups of the same colour in both corners, so to build or split in such an area is playing (relatively in terms of the whole board) close to thickness, the corner groups are untroubled by such a move so it's easy to tenuki and play in more open areas of the board. Also the d9 split AG recommends has some attacking effect against the top left shoulder hit group, splitting it from the lower left.
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There's several interesting aspects in this short exchange. The 2-space extension to make a base is a very standard idea and elicited no comment from Redmond, but AG thinks it is slack and instead wants to (yes, you've guess it!) shoulder hit the shimari, then bully it into overconcentration from the other side and tenuki. I remember in the 1st AG vs Ke Jie game Bill talked about how making 2-space extensions for a base was an ancient idea but maybe we could be wrong about its importance too often.


I had an exchange on YT comments a couple of months ago that I thought was interesting and relevant to this:
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Inseong 8d had a lecture on Alphago moves in which he pointed out that the evolution from the 70's 80's Japanese style to the 90's korean style is a matter of tightening moves and making them less slack and more forceful. He continued this narrative by suggesting that the attach instead of slide is of a similar logic, and that alphago is showing many attachments to move one line closer as a sort of improvement upon the improvement.

to which I responded that the (mostly early) wariuchi might also be an example of this. This does seem to be a sente thing. A splitting move between to shimari does not necessarily require a response, as that would just be playing close to your thickness, as you mentioned.

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lightvector wrote:
Unlike some of the other variations in the file with highly skewed winrates, this is one of the positions where I don't have even a slight sense of black as being behind. I'm curious, if you didn't know AlphaGo's evaluation at this point, would you have any preference for white in the final diagram you showed, and if so, why?

Yes (though it's hard to ensure my current knowledge of AG's winrate doesn't even subconsciously affect my opinion). I tend to judge positions like this more as a sum of mistake deltas than counting them. I definitely thought black's solid extension and then push through (19 and 29) at the top right were too slow and solid and a mistake, see tewari below. As for blocking both shoulder hits on the 4th line rather than crawl that's certainly a solid/thick way of playing but I can't really say bad with confidence. That tenuki is often the best response to a shoulder hit in the opening is not something I was aware of back when these games were played, but now that it's the standard AG Zero vs AG Master opening (http://www.alphago-games.com/view/event ... /0/move/16) I can nudge that 'solid' towards 'too solid and potentially bad'. h3 slackly making a base passed me by, though I can see similarities with the modern style of attaching to the shimari in orthodox wedge openings rather than simply making the extension. k17 being slow and focused on one side of the board is certainly something I could feel, but without AG's judgement I'd class it more as a style issue "pros and cons, possible to play this way if you are confident dealing with moyos later".

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[go]$$B tewari
$$ ------------------+
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . c . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . X . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . 1 3 X b . |
$$ . . . 4 5 2 a . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . 6 . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . d . . . |[/go]

1 is much too slow in the opening. 2 for 3 is slight minus (e.g. losing things like a/b attachments) and slightly helps black towards corner but there is still plenty to do there (like c AG played in game), much less bad than 1. 4 is kinda suspicious because black should tenuki it and you don't know without looking at the whole board if it has much value for white, but if black answers at 5 that's a nice exchange for white. Jumping to 6 is locally sensible, whether it's worth spending a move on depends on the whole board but treating the 4-5-6 exchange as a gote move for white you make if you want some centre influence seems fine for white to me. And white has a follow up to somewhat close the right side so black might even spend a move around d like he did in the game, which does make some side points.

With black finishing at d here's another position with the same localy tally of black adding one move to his shimari. It's a sensible move locally we see fairly often, but would black wanted to have played it so early in this opening? It's like white has then played the sequence a-f which could be aji keshi (maybe you might want to invade instead of reduce), but black's answers are rather soft and leave the ko aji at g dhu mentioned. If black wanted to avoid that and connect on the side he could have played f as clamp below a for example, or simply crawled on the 3rd line instead of b.
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[go]$$B
$$ ------------------+
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . X . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . d b X . . |
$$ . . . c f a . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . e . g . . . |
$$ . . . . . 1 . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . . . |[/go]

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Bill Spight wrote:
Well, I suppose that a 30% estimate corresponds roughly to being around 20-25 pts. behind (after :w30:) by conventional human estimates. Out of curiosity, I evaluated that position with my simple, biased evaluation function, for an estimate of 26+ pts. for White. I usually figure the central bias at around 4 pts. at that stage of the game, which yields an estimate of around 22 pts. Surprise, surprise! :o ;)

Why the difference? Short answer: Black is too concentrated and too low -- at least, by how my function figures things.


I wouldn't expect it to be anything as big as 20-25 points (presumably how much you expect white to win if two highly skilled players play out the game trying to maintain the point lead rather than reducing it for safety AG style -- wouldn't it be interesting if AG played as black against a white Ke Jie and we see if/how it can reverse the game!). Near the end of the game a 90% win can mean a almost certain half point win. In the WeiqiTV reviews we had comments around move 100-150 that AG now thought black was winning instead of even (I infer 55%-60%) and when pressed Fan Hui revealed that means just a half point win or so expected.

What happens if we calibrate your evaluation function (which I presume is some kind of influence/shadow map) by applying it to to the following position from AlphaGo self-play #3 (Redmond's review). I tried to find one with one player going more for influence, but I presume AG thinks the game is pretty even now (I doubt more than 5% departure from white's initial 53%).
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[go]$$B
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . O . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X X X . X . . . . . O . . . . . |
$$ | . O X X X O X . . . . . . X O O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O O . . . , . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . O . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O , . O . . . , . . . . . X X . . |
$$ | . O . O . . . . . . . . X X X O O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

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Post #17 Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:44 am 
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Uberdude wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
Well, I suppose that a 30% estimate corresponds roughly to being around 20-25 pts. behind (after :w30:) by conventional human estimates. Out of curiosity, I evaluated that position with my simple, biased evaluation function, for an estimate of 26+ pts. for White. I usually figure the central bias at around 4 pts. at that stage of the game, which yields an estimate of around 22 pts. Surprise, surprise! :o ;)

Why the difference? Short answer: Black is too concentrated and too low -- at least, by how my function figures things.


I wouldn't expect it to be anything as big as 20-25 points (presumably how much you expect white to win if two highly skilled players play out the game trying to maintain the point lead rather than reducing it for safety AG style -- wouldn't it be interesting if AG played as black against a white Ke Jie and we see if/how it can reverse the game!). Near the end of the game a 90% win can mean a almost certain half point win. In the WeiqiTV reviews we had comments around move 100-150 that AG now thought black was winning instead of even (I infer 55%-60%) and when pressed Fan Hui revealed that means just a half point win or so expected.


Well, yes, we don't really know what the 30% means. It is Master's estimate, and if Master played Master from that position my guess is that Black would win less than 20% of the time. We also have to remember that this early in the game the swings in point evaluation from move to move are quite large (as opposed to win rate estimates, which should not change much). Which again means that there is a good bit of uncertainty in the final result, even given optimal play. So 20-25 pts. was a guess, which I made before seeing what my influence function would say. ;)

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What happens if we calibrate your evaluation function (which I presume is some kind of influence/shadow map) by applying it to to the following position from AlphaGo self-play #3 (Redmond's review). I tried to find one with one player going more for influence, but I presume AG thinks the game is pretty even now (I doubt more than 5% departure from white's initial 53%).
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[go]$$B
$$ +---------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . O . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X X X . X . . . . . O . . . . . |
$$ | . O X X X O X . . . . . . X O O O . . |
$$ | . . O O O O . . . , . . . . X X X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . O . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . X O , . O . . . , . . . . . X X . . |
$$ | . O . O . . . . . . . . X X X O O . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]


Well, some 50 years after Zobrist came up with his influence function, nobody has found a hand-crafted evaluation function that produces strong play, and I don't expect to, either. ;)

This is a position after :b49:. My function estimates Black to be around 25 pts. ahead on the board. I think it is still appropriate to subtract 4 pts. for its bias, yielding a little more than 20 pts. But it is White's turn and White gets komi, so the estimate of the final score with optimal play should be in the neighborhood of 6 - 12 pts. for Black.

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Next game for review is Master #36 vs Gu Zihao, the young Chinese pro who was 5p at the time but is now 9p having just won the Samsung cup. This had an interested trade following a wedge on the top side where Master says Gu made 2 big mistakes, and then a fairly but not super early 3-3 invasion which puzzled Redmond: why not normal approach, and AG says normal approach was a in fact a little better than 3-3, so it's not that normal approach was bad, but 3-3 was also possible and not bad either!. Full game is http://www.alphago-games.com/view/event ... 35/move/29, Redmond's review is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWabLAkvpIQ.

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[go]$$B AlphaGo Master (black) vs Gu Zihao 5p
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The game starts with Master making its characteristic big high shimari, as Redmond noted in his review (and me in my Master orthodox opening analysis) it prefers (by 1%) this when white's bottom left is a 4-4, and big low when it's a 3-4 (by 0.3%). Redmond thought this was because it wanted to approach the bottom left next, but in some example mainlines in the AG opening tool it actually 3-3 invades there. Gu then makes the solid knight's enclosure on the bottom left (best says AG) and Master shoulder hits. Gu pushes up (whereas in the same position Ke Jie crawled, -0.7%) and Master jumps, AG now says invading bottom right 3-3 is 2% better. Redmond did say it's a bit odd to spend a move on a centre move like this of uncertain value so early in the opening, and AG's 3-3 recommendation has clear value, but personally I think jump makes a more interesting game. Gu then splits the side, unsurprisingly AG thinks the approach is better (by 2.3%).

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[go]$$Wm10 AG recommendation
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Interestingly it suggests a black one-space low pincer whereas if white approached for move 6 it suggests backing off with the knight's move as normal for AG: presumably as black has invested more in the upper left moyo with the shoulder hit and jump the pincer is relatively better (though we aren't told what AG thinks of knight move now, I suspect similar to the pincer). White's response to the pincer is odd: plopping a stone high on the side, I wonder if it views approach for pincer as a good exchange because you've created the option of an even more spacious 3-3 invasion at top right. AG doesn't show how white would deal with black continuing at the top side because it recommends black 3-3 invading at bottom right so loses sente and white does then 3-3 at top right (and just pushes with e-g instead of 2nd line hane connect, seeking sente). So what would white do if black didn't 3-3, here's a few of my ideas:

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[go]$$Wm10 AG recommendation, my variation for 13
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If attach on top that weakens the top side stone, so extend on top to reinforce which also eyes thinness of the big high shimari? Feels weird though.

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[go]$$Wm10 AG recommendation, my variation for 13
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If knight move to defend corner then make your own to stop the 3-3 invasion AG loves so much and keep territorial balance?

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[go]$$Bm11
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Anyway, Master played checking extension from the left which AG says is 1.8% worse than 3-3 invading lower right (like a broken record) so it ends up about the same as if white had approached instead of split. AG really seems to think 3-3 invasions are first class opening moves in the corners that should come before moves on the sides. Approach, kick, extend all optimal says AG, Redmond noted that 15 could be low to be more territorial but Master was playing an attacking game and Gu added a move on the top with 16 which Master immediately attacked with the nice shape point of 17. Instead of this 16 (46.8% for black) AG recommends to immediately undercut the high move (45.1). AG's expected continuation below seems rather mild to me with the kosumi of 17, if Gu had known this is all AG wanted would he have more readily not defended his group? I suppose the undercutting move does make it harder to attack severely or make profit on the right.

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[go]$$Wm16 AG's recommendation for 16
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