Life-and-Death Go is a variant of Go.
Black has 17~20 initial stones. White's winning condition is having one alive part.
This model is based on official KataGo's b28c512nbt using transfer-learning.
In order to achieve a high level of Go strength at a very low cost, the early stages of training were done on a small 9x9 board, followed by 13x13 board, and finally 19x19 board.
Additionally, the official KataGo weights were used for transfer learning on the "life-and-death" game rules, which significantly improved the model's strength.
~ 1 week on 2x RTX4090