Well, so does this paper. Many people, myself included, thought the next step was a CNN+MCTS, because it was the obvious next step. It was doing it well and get

Well, so does this paper. Many people, myself included, thought the next step was a CNN+MCTS, because it was the obvious next step. It was doing it well and getting it all the way to superhuman quality (along with reinforcement learning/self-play) that made AlphaGo so important.