I saw a game where it decided connecting its group wasn't important since it could still make the cut off side sabaki later
Approaches corner, decides it's ahead, lives later It doesn't care about keeping groups strong as much On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 13:24 uurtamo <uurt...@gmail.com wrote: > They will abandon a fight to take bigger sente. It's super scary to watch. > > s. > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 8:06 PM Robert Jasiek <jas...@snafu.de wrote: > >> On 29.01.2019 18:53, uurtamo wrote: >> > it's [...] about an insane need to keep sente. my only >> > takeaway other than reading out fights way way way in advance. >> >> I can confirm the necessity for keeping sente with respect for the >> endgame but would not be surprised it to also apply during opening and >> middle game. One of the greatest weaknesses of my pupils in the kyus is >> not to play all their sentes (other than privileges preserved for ko >> threats or liberties) before gotes. From my study, research of and book >> writing on the endgame during the previous 2.5 years, I have realised >> the importance of distinguishing gote from sente even if their >> difference is only a fraction of a point (but it can be up to ca. 5 >> points per local decision) and of exceptionally playing gote instead of >> sente or vice versa depending on the global context. Every small mistake >> in evaluation about playing too long locally etc. amounts to a large >> total amount when all mistakes accumulate. Programs would notice such >> implicitly due to their smaller winning chances when making too many >> such mistakes. >> >> Reading out fights in advance very deeply I have only noticed a few >> times during programs' play but, of course, you are right. I simply have >> not studied their deep reading carefully enough to witness more incidents. >> >> -- >> robert jasiek >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> Computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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