More hardware still means better results — or there would be no need to cap the time per move. It’s always been a trade off between using more expensive heuris

More hardware still means better results — or there would be no need to cap the time per move. It’s always been a trade off between using more expensive heuristics on fewer moves or cheaper heuristics on more moves. The “number of moves” thing only says that they went all-in on the better heuristics angle. In fact, there was something posted recently about test games where they played go by just using the first move suggested by the search heuristic and that was pretty strong.