Seeing how weak this is I was just curious and tried to play with it using random moves (random choice from A-I and 1-9 repeating “dice” if move is illegal). Everytime during first 50 moves random bot was better! (BTW. flux-bot thought pass is best in 6-th and 8-th moves!)
Then random-bot made some self-ataris which changed position.
But flux-bot is so weak that it screwed it up again…
In this (clearly winning by radom bot (*)) position flux-box went to never ending cycle with “dancing” green line on top of board:
In my humble opinion and some could see it otherwise, this is … (I don’t want to be too harsh so I say it very politely) disappointing.
If JuliaComputing (**) wants to advertise Julia and show serious work on problems (at least in pillar packages in ecosystem) then I propose (and well I could be wrong!) to remove this example immediately! (or improve it radically)
(*) yes - random moves of black still had some chance to do suicide but I couldn’t test it due to bug (in flux? in bot? in javascript?) … BTW. white stones around J5 was several moves in atari…
(**) @MikeInnes is from JuliaComputing right? (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R81pmvTP_Ik ; BTW about go-bot look around 5:30 )