New go game engine Go Omnibot is now available as a beta version in Hactar go. The engine allows free selection of color, handicap, and komi, so you can find opponent for any purpose.
By default, the maximum strength of Omnibot is 1 dan. Any subscription rises the maximum strength to pro-level. Supporter subscription makes the strength far above pro-level.
The Omnibot is still being tuned, so strength adjustment may be a bit off from actual strength. Well, there is no right strength for certain rank, as strength of certain rank varies quite a lot between ranking systems. So it is more about making strength to match average expectation.
The engine uses multiple neural networks to provide this scale of opponents. At the moment only bot strength can be selected. In future I hope to be able to provide more tunable aspects for the play.
Hactar go lite version of the bot is not available right now, but will follow shortly.