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Game number: Main Page
White: David J Bush    Black: TwixtBot
This game (LG) | Download JTwixt file
On 2018-12-06 at 17:13, twixter (info) said:
What if I had played |31.o13 ?

On 2018-12-07 at 00:55, BonyJordan (info) said:
|31.o13 32.l16 33.j4 34.h16 35.v17 36.u14 37.v15 38.t16 39.u13 40.v16 41.l17 42.k18 43.m15 44.m19 45.o19 46.o18 47.i15 48.j15
The fact that the bot doesn't even seem to be trying with its White moves indicates to me that it thinks the whole thing is pretty hopeless. It evaluates the position after |31.o13 32.l16 as +0.873.

On 2018-12-07 at 02:32, Alan Hensel (info) said:
Why did TwixtBot waste time with |32.s7 33.t8? Did it think it was losing at that time?

On 2018-12-07 at 04:24, BonyJordan (info) said:
That's a good question. I don't really know. It certainly didn't think it was losing. It does like to play out forcing sequences like that, sort of a horizon effect of sorts I suppose -- if it sees playing down below gets it to +0.600 but that punting for a couple of turns by wasting time with losing ladders or whatever gets it to +0.610 it likes that. I suspect adding a proper transposition table will help somewhat with that.

On 2018-12-09 at 23:04, twixter (info) said:
|32.s7 was a forcing move, so this does not hurt its position. Even Alpha Go Zero will make such moves.

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