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The process of making Gosuji - A new way of improving your Go skills, through the power of AI

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 Prologue The Game of Go Go is the oldest board game still played till this day. And for good reason, it has simple rules yet vast strategic concepts and an elegance and aesthetic to match!   Blue Ruin 1, 2010, https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_ruin_1/5162970056   But with the advancements in AI, what does it take to become good in this day and age? What can you do to be ahead of the curve? Conventional Reviewing In the world of Go, reviewing is a practice done after playing a match to review your moves and learn from your mistakes. This can be done with the person you played the game against, a friend that is better than you or even a Go teacher. But nowadays there's another option: Go AI. It can show you how good, or more likely bad, your move was, and what you could have played instead.  Sometimes when I look at my game with AI, I get caught up in an interesting move. Something I would never think of myself, yet the AI sees it as common sense. Most people just lo...