I am posting here to draw attention bot tournament now being played on KGS.

This 19x19 tournament has very strong entrants. Zen, Crazy Stone and DolBaram are currently leading, and as I type this Zen and Crazy Stone are playing a very hard-to-understand game. The time limits are slow, four hours each, so the tournament will continue for another 24 hours or more. Only one of the players, NiceGo19N, has implemented CNN (Conformational Neural Net) which is predicted to be about to produce a significant improvement in computer Go: it is not among the leaders, but is significantly stronger than it was last year without CNN.

If you can't follow the games on KGS, you can see the state of the tournament at http://www.gokgs.com/tournEntrants.jsp?sort=s&id=947 or http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/S15.1/index.html

I am very interested in neural networks. I wish the developer of zen or CS would implement the same if possible. I am pretty sure we would then see a high quality go. (near amateur-pro border)

frank de groot was willing to do that, who has talent on pattern.
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5838&p=125574&hilit=pattern#p125574

I hadn't seen that he had been into neural nets. I was under the impression that he was intending to AI pattern recognition.

Remember, while a neural net is implemented by a program, the neural net itself isn't a program and isn't programmed to do anything. It is taught to do the task, and this learning doesn't involve those controlling the teaching themselves knowing how to do the task, only to be able to distinguish between "task done correctly" and "task done incorrectly".