A 9-stone game means a 9-stone handicap, not a 9x9 board.

Kurzweil was right. Looks like we just might live long enough to live forever after all.

As far as I'm aware this is the first time a Go program has been shown to play at or above Dan level at 19x19 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings].

Useful summary: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6vgrw/historyca...

Homepage for the program: http://www.lri.fr/~gelly/MoGo.htm

Isn't 9x9 Go substantially easier, computationally, from 19x19?

This proves at least one of two things: that computers can be more intelligent than people or that one doesn't need to be intelligent to play Go.