Let's See If I Can Win Leela At The Maximum Settings Receiving A Five Stone Handicap

I'm black. Leela is white.

Here we go. There are the settings.

I can hear processor heating.

My choice of joseki wasn't standard. But I like those big box shapes.

Leela is creating light and flexible shape.

I secured the corner and weakened whites shape in the bottom and tried to put some pressure on the other white group. White ignored that and strengthened the side.

A big fight is developing on the upper side. Black could kill the upper left corner. But black has the other corner to worry about. Also, there is an attack underway against the white group on the left side. But the upper right corner has to be dealt with first.

Interesting. White played under l3. Did black get outsmarted here?

A fight over life and death broke out on the lower side.

White took the upper corner and started a ko.

Black botched the attack on the white group and moved for a kill on the upper left group.

It will die but this game isn't looking good for black.

Black is trying to live on the upper right side.

Black is in very serious trouble in the upper left. The black and white groups cannot kill each other but the large black one does not have eyes. The following measure probably does not work but if it doesn't it will be a good excuse to resign.

Hah! An all-out ko.

Unbelievably, Leela anwered my threat at k15!

Now I only have to connect at d9 and I've won the ko.

Black can't kill the group on the lower side. G3 does not work. G1 refutes it. G3 refutes black's g1.

Interestingly, m19 would start a ko enabling black to potentially kill the upper left corner.

What? Why would white not play ko threats against the black group in the middle?

White is now dead in the corner. (I have not counted the score. Perhaps white's lead is so large that it has time for moves like this.)

Black won by resignation.

I would say there were surprising weaknesses to white's play. But it is a strong program because it puts up a very good fight as white in a five-stone handicap game against a Northern European 3 dan.