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I've been super out of touch with playing Go for the past couple years. I would love to get back into it with all these new development! Does anyone know if I can play against AlphaGo or derivative (such as MiniGo) online?

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Various people have tried to incorporate AG-like techniques into their Go programs. One you might wish to play with is Leela Zero, which is low to mid dan (amateur) now.

To get this working:

* Acquire a GTP-capable GUI, such as Sabaki

* Acquire the latest Leela Zero release

* Acquire a recent Leela Zero neural net

* Set up Sabaki to use LZ with the net passed as an argument, e.g. "-t 1 -p 1600 --noponder --gtp -w d16fa4c3801e55ec21e0df7ead67980fe8d4ee49188a3516818207ad28b017a6"

It's a bit of work but nothing too hard. I should mention that this may require a semi-decent GPU (my old GTX 750 works fine).

Interesting, thanks!

Playing against an unbeatable computer is not a good way to learn... Same thing goes for chess.

That's the awesome thing about Go! If you play against someone who is better than you, you can place handicaps which makes the game fun from both sides.

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