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.
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 :)
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 :)