I also play some, and yeah that's incorrect. Also, there was recently a bunch of hype about an adversarial strategy that could beat AIs w/o deep readout (i.e. only using the 'policy network' nonlinear ML stuff and not enough actual calculation). Here's a vid of an amateur doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4DvCj4ySKM

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Also, if you want to get into it, Micheal Redmond's Go TV on youtube has an amazing beginner playlist, watch some of that then maybe blacktoplay.com and if you likey play :)

That is correct but in game servers, ranks (e.g.: 1 kyu, 1 dan) are computed via Elo-like means.

https://forums.online-go.com/t/how-does-the-rating-system-wo...