Today, we officially launched support for the new bot KataGo!

KataGo is almost as strong as Leela Zero and has many advantages for analyzing games:

  • It can output the score in terms of points instead of winning percentage.
  • It can visualize influence and territory.
  • It deals better with ladders.
  • It appears to be more robust for life and death problems.

So, starting today, KataGo will be our default engine for reviews. But of course we are keeping Leela Zero around, too.

Here is an example game reviewed with KataGo: