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What's interesting to me about this is the visual pattern recognition -- rather than just scaling up a giant Monte-Carlo search, playing like (presumably) humans do, searching for patterns, is very cool.

I was just this weekend going through my go library, and most of the books I have focus on precisely this sort of pattern training. In fact, there's a whole branch of study in go called in Japanese "Tesuji", essentially brilliant moves that come from bad-looking patterns.

The idea is that you lull your opponent into complacency with your bad-looking pattern, then "BAM", a surprise comes out. My guess is that an RNN could be discovering new tesuji, which would be super cool. If the RNN can look ahead deep enough, then I would think that's a path forward against strong players.

There's also the reverse, Anti-suji, essentially things that look brilliant, but are really terrible.