(;GM[1]FF[4] SZ[9]KM[7.50] PW[viking5]PB[GNU]BR[13k] PC[The Kiseido Go Server (KGS) at http://kgs.kiseido.com/] DT[2005-11-06]AP[CGoban:2] EV[Eighth KGS Computer Go Tournament - Formal division]RE[B+Resign] TM[780]RU[Chinese] C[zapp [?\]: This will be interesting viking5 [?\]: GTP Engine for viking5 (white): Viking version 5.2.2 GNU [13k\]: GTP Engine for GNU (black): GNU Go version 3.7.7 ] RO[2]CA[UTF-8]ST[2] ;B[ee];W[ce];B[cd];W[gc];B[de] C[gunnar [?\]: Did Viking play second move from opening book? ];W[eg] ;B[cf];W[gh]C[zapp [?\]: I did not see it play it ];B[ec] C[gunnar [?\]: (It was very fast.) gunnar [?\]: G2 looks a bit low. zapp [?\]: Then it was ] ;W[fb];B[eb]C[gunnar [?\]: GNU thinks W+6. gunnar [?\]: G5 was third move. ] ;W[gf];B[dg]C[zapp [?\]: Viking thinks it is 50+50 gunnar [?\]: W+10 now. gunnar [?\]: GNU very pessimistic. ] ;W[dh];B[ch]C[zapp [?\]: Should be with big komi zapp [?\]: Viking tends to always beat gnu in a game like this gunnar [?\]: W+12. It gets worse with every move. ] ;W[cg];B[bg]C[gunnar [?\]: C3? zapp [?\]: Can be a symptom that Viking is behind Dssq [9k?\]: C3 = 9P move ] ;W[ei];B[ge]C[gunnar [?\]: Finally G5. gunnar [?\]: W+4 now. ];W[fe] ;B[fd]C[zapp [?\]: Viking was thinking of H5 zapp [?\]: but ran out of time gunnar [?\]: Ah, F5 didn't look very good. ] ;W[ff];B[gd]C[zapp [?\]: I am playing on my laptop today zapp [?\]: Last time I had my father 3Ghz machine gunnar [?\]: What speed? zapp [?\]: 1.7 ] ;W[hd];B[hb] C[zapp [?\]: And that tournament I think the time per game was longer ] ;W[hc];B[he] C[gunnar [?\]: GNU is playing on a 1.6 GHz Athlon (marketing name XP1900+) ] ;W[ea];B[fc] C[zapp [?\]: Does it play much stronger using more time on 9x9 ] ;W[gb]C[gunnar [?\]: Doubtful. ];B[id] C[gunnar [?\]: GNU thinks the corner will die. zapp [?\]: For Viking every second makes a difference ] ;W[ic];B[ha]C[zapp [?\]: Viking agrees with that ];W[cb];B[da];W[fa] C[zapp [?\]: At 3 minutes per move Viking is pretty good ];B[db] ;W[ie];B[hf];W[if];B[hg];W[ig];B[hh]C[zapp [?\]: Good game for gnu gunnar [?\]: Looks like white collapsed. gunnar [?\]: G2 was a gift. zapp [?\]: As a said: at C3 viking probably felt it was behind gunnar [?\]: Interesting that they both thought so. :-) zapp [?\]: I should have implemented an idea to spend twice the time on first move out of book zapp [?\]: I am rerunning Viking for position it played G2 gunnar [?\]: What is the right move? zapp [?\]: 1ply G3 2ply G3 3ply G4 zapp [?\]: Which means it played G2 because of the random nature of monte carlo eval ] )