That’s correct, at least roughly—the important difference is that it’s not “isn’t necessary to win the game” but “doesn’t make any difference to the outcome, including score difference”—but I don’t see what it has to do with the more specific thing you said above:
The problem seems to be that it’s not preferring to win by more under area rules.
KataGo does prefer to win by more, whatever rules it’s playing under; a stronger preference for winning by more would not (so far as I can see) make any difference to its play in positions like the ones reached by the adversarial agent; KataGo does not generally think “that it has enough points anyway and doesn’t need to capture stones to win” and even if it did that wouldn’t make the difference between playing on and passing in this situation.
Unless, again, I’m missing something, but we seem to be having some sort of communication difficulty because nothing you write seems to me responsive to what I’m saying (and quite possibly it feels the same way to you, with roles reversed).
What makes you believe that KataGo is “not preferring to win by more under area rules”?
That’s correct, at least roughly—the important difference is that it’s not “isn’t necessary to win the game” but “doesn’t make any difference to the outcome, including score difference”—but I don’t see what it has to do with the more specific thing you said above:
KataGo does prefer to win by more, whatever rules it’s playing under; a stronger preference for winning by more would not (so far as I can see) make any difference to its play in positions like the ones reached by the adversarial agent; KataGo does not generally think “that it has enough points anyway and doesn’t need to capture stones to win” and even if it did that wouldn’t make the difference between playing on and passing in this situation.
Unless, again, I’m missing something, but we seem to be having some sort of communication difficulty because nothing you write seems to me responsive to what I’m saying (and quite possibly it feels the same way to you, with roles reversed).
What makes you believe that KataGo is “not preferring to win by more under area rules”?