Abstract
Playing the right atari is an intriguing heuristic that can be used for a powerful optimization of Monte-Carlo Go tree search. It consists in dealing appropriately with strings that have two liberties. The heuristic is contained in one page of code and the Go program that uses it improves from 50 per cent of won games against GNU Go 3.6 to 76 per cent of won games.
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