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Trapping an anchor, again

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2010, at 8:43 p.m.

There was quite a lot of interest when I posted an anchor-trapping problem here some time ago. Some of the folks I play with love getting into superbackgames, and the position below came up yesterday. What's the right play? What are Blue's approximate winning chances from here?

I haven't rolled this one out; my computer environment is currently in transition so I am temporarily unable to do rollouts, and in any case I'm not sure how meaningful a rollout would be here. However, I would still be interested in seeing what the bots have to say.

Money Game
Blue to play 52

White	31
Blue	202
GNUBg Id: BwADAAXYtg0BAA:UQkVAAAAAAAA XGID=---AA------bBBBBBB---A--c-:1:1:1:52:0:0:0:0:10

Messages In This Thread

• Trapping an anchor, again
  Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 20 October 2010, at 8:43 p.m.
  • Trapping an anchor, again
    Keene -- Thursday, 21 October 2010, at 4:33 a.m.
  • Rollout: Trapping an anchor, again
    Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 14 November 2010, at 3:39 p.m.
    • Rollout: Trapping an anchor, again
      Fabrice Liardet -- Monday, 15 November 2010, at 12:33 p.m.
  • Trapping an anchor, again
    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Monday, 15 November 2010, at 2:30 p.m.