> > David Fotland wrote:
> > > I just looked at this position and it looks like
> a win for black in the
> > > first position.  Many Faces evaluates it as a
> win for black, and plays c1 to
> > > save the lower left black group with almost no
> thinking time.
> > 
> > > Mogo is correct because the lower left black
> group is not dead.

Somebody replied:
 
> > Doesn't B3 kill in response to C1?
 
--- David Fotland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Oops, yes you are right.  I shouldn't try to look at
> a position when I'm half asleep.

So we are back to the original theory: Mogo
incorrectly believed that the position was 70% in
favor of a black win, until white made the situation
more blatantly obvious.

Three questions: 

a) does the new version of Mogo, with the nakade
improvements, handle this situation any better?

b) how do other programs fare?

c) what strategies would provide a general
improvement? 


Terry McIntyre &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]&gt;

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state 
education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit 
obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874]


      
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