You're acting like following arbitrary sets of rules to maximize a value function isn't something that computers excel at. The only thing that was holding up co

You're acting like following arbitrary sets of rules to maximize a value function isn't something that computers excel at. The only thing that was holding up computers for Go was simply time; there were too many possibilities to consider. Humans are really, really good at heuristically trimming possibilities, but sometimes to the detriment of finding maxima.