> I watched a game of your bot, and it still fills its own eyes, killing  

Which version did you check?
Stop-test2 is the most recent one. It has checks for preventing placing
stones in an eye.

> alive groups. I suggest you strictly forbid eye-filling moves until the 
> bot is much stronger (I think it is needed in very few cases to kill 
> groups). Also it plays many, many bad self-atari moves into the tiger 
> mouth shape. If you evaluate positions and give them a score, these moves 
> should receive a worse score.

ok, thanks for evaluating
this tuesday i'm going to bring a visit to the local Go-club to get them
to teach me how to really play Go, beyond placing stones on the board
following the most basic rules.

> Do you have an account on KGS? (Human, not bot :)
> That said, I think you have enough testing opportunities on KGS and  
> CGOS. It's probably not worth the hassle if IGS doesn't support normal  
> GTP for bots. :p

ok


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