On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:42:11PM -0400, Michael Williams wrote:
> It works fine with komi 1.5 or 2.5 -- black wins and white wins,
> respectively.  The situation below may be tricky to deal with.  I'm guessing
> the problem is due to the bad move opening up a large area and extending the
> game, thus introducing uncertainty.  And Pachi is preferring that uncertain
> outcome over a tie.

Actually, it is caused by the fact that Pachi thinks pass is fine,
never simulates any other alternative, but then avoids playing pass.
The logic is that pass is played only when the game would result in
score > 0. I added an equal sign there, thanks for the report.

-- 
                                Petr "Pasky" Baudis
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
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