[gnugo-devel] None

[Michael Murray]

Hi, My name is Michael and I find that your gnugo program plays quite well 
for a computer. I'd just like to make a suggestion or two on your program.

I find that gnugo 3.316 seems to be reasonably good at reading out life and 
death of groups, but it sometimes leaves groups alone while they are not yet 
alive and ends up getting killed. I'm guessing you realise this already and 
hope that you can fix up this problem. I believe this alone may be able to 
raise the strength of the program by 1 or 2 stones. Most of it's moves in a 
game are quite good, but poor life and death reading lets it down.

I tested gnugo against the program "WinHonte", and found that gnugo played a 
sequence of bad moves in a situation. It just kept getting worse and worse, 
and when I tried "Guess Score" Gnugo thought it was winning by 2 points, but 
in fact it was going to lose the game by a very big margin. Please look at 
the sgf file to review the game, thanks.

Michael.





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