Life In 19x19

speedchase wrote:It's only fair as long as you assume perfect play
edit: and that komi is half the value of the first move.

I'm not quite sure in reply to which post this is but I agree about the komi .

To illustrate Symple's balancing mechanism, we're conveniently presented with a kind of Bobby Fischer of Symple bots in the CodeCup 2013 Challenge.
In the fourth test round there appeared a new dutch competitor named Remco Bloemen, with a C++ program named "main32". It has an interesting list of results.

Answering  questions about strategy appears to be extremely difficult because Symple has a strategic dilemma embedded in its object. Watching this program play is fascinating, and will most likely provide the very tools that are needed to carve out the main strategic principles. Since I'm already struggling to keep up with its opposition, I have no doubt that I'd be on the losing end against main32 for the foreseeable future. I'm looking forward to playing against it.

My post is in response to the OP