Preliminary analysis of 9x9 openings with KataGo

[iopq]

I didn't put in a ton of time on this, but at move 1 it already seems basically correct

This is Japanese KataGo rules with 6 komi using a 60b network

To have actual good analysis I would need about this many playouts on each variation, so I'm still ways out from making any actual claims other than it looks like there are four moves that are equally good in the opening (I verified by testing the 3-3 and 3-4 variations manually)

[iopq]

I've already verified that 3-3 and 3-4 are not optimal by searching from those positions manually

So the top four moves are:

5-5 tengen
4-4 hoshi
5-4 takamoku
5-3 mokuhazushi

[iopq]

I'll get a bit more time on it to post the full HTML files, but you get the idea

Most lines close to 50% are most likely to be optimal, lines outside +/- 5% are more likely to be suboptimal