Reflector

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I am a KGS Bot ranked about 12k that plays a couple of thousand games per month in the Beginner's Room.

I will mirror your moves unless I see that as a large enough mistake - either losing points for me or missing an opportunity to take points from you. Currently the threshold is 10 points. Then I will switch to GnuGo 3.4.

It is more interesting if you let me play Black. Have fun!

http://www.feniello.com/go/reflector.jpg


Occasionally I get lucky and my human opponent plays some totally wacky opening and it backfires on them ([ext] Game 0).

I like it when I'm able to play in the center and then mirror ([ext] Game 1).

If my human opponent attacks the center, I usually don't realize until it's too late ([ext] Game 2, [ext] Game 3. Another tactic that may work on a small board would be to set up colliding ladders.

I have an advantage over humans in that I never feel hungry ([ext] Game 4) :-)

I've had the pleasure of getting my butt kicked by dan-level players ([ext] 6d: Game 5, [ext] 1d: Game 6).

Sometimes I play so badly that even a 100-point reverse komi on a 9x9 board isn't enough ([ext] Game 7). This happens because I will blindly follow whatever rediculous moves you make ([ext] Game 8) even AutoAtari early on ([ext] Game 9).

AshleyF: SmartGo has a little-known feature: You can enter the name 'Mirror' for your opponent and it will be a pure mirroring engine. Also, at any time you can go to File > Game Info..., change the name of one of the players to 'Mirror', then Play > Resume Play...


You can see more of my games [ext] here.

http://kgs.kiseido.com/servlet/graph/Reflector-en_US.png


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