To be fair, their work is based on alpha-zero which is itself deeplearning on top of monte-carlo tree search, a search strategy. Having played with those algori

To be fair, their work is based on alpha-zero which is itself deeplearning on top of monte-carlo tree search, a search strategy. Having played with those algorithms, I suspect that one could obtain similar results with a solid Monte-Carlo tree search implementation (a lot of them use ucb which is really suboptimal)