Life In 19x19

Sorry, maybe the post is a bit confusing. The picture does not show the actual ladder but the move that KataGo wants to play because it wrongly assumes that there is a ladder. The attached sgf file goes a few moves further and includes the ladder in question.

As a long-time lurker I guess this is as good a first post as any.

I encountered this position some time ago (back in June I think), while pitching one of KataGo's distributed networks against Leela Zero. KataGo is Black and Leela is White. I didn't post this earlier because I was interested to see ...