the thing that got me thinking about this is that i've never seen an MC player really play out a ko fight. (or perhaps they are in their own cryptic MC way that i can't see). The fact is that MoGo does play out? Ko fights. It actually plays Ko fights more often and somewhat better than 3-4 kyu human players. Don't forget the MC program strength is about 3-4 kyu, evaluated so far. It's still too early to talk about 9 dan level of playing. At the end of the day the playing strength of MC programs is limited by its equivalent search depth. Even locally MoGo's equivalent search depth is about 10 plys. Armed with the knowledge of joseki a 3 - 4 kyu human player can?often look?deeper than?10 plys. The search depth of MC programs in a whole board search is an open question. So is for 3 -4 kyu human players. DL
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