> Among non-professional players, it is really common to see game play being not as exciting as before because there's now an easy way: just memorize and copy w

> Among non-professional players, it is really common to see game play being not as exciting as before because there's now an easy way: just memorize and copy what the AI does This is just… not true. Unless one is playing at high dan ranks, it’s trivially easy to induce a “memorized sequence” that your opponent either will not have memorized or will leave them with a situation that they don’t understand well enough to capitalize on. The “slack moves” in the openings that pros talk about are often worth 1.5 points or less (often a fraction of a point), and that assumes pro-level follow up. This pro-level follow up is laughably rare outside of strong amateur dan levels and pro levels (and even within those ranks there are substantial differences).