Remember with bots, it is not just the program/version that is running but also what hardware resources it is running on. Do we know what those are? The commitment of hardware resources sufficient for some of these programs to be at their strongest is not trivial. For all we know, the machines in question are not 100% allocated to playing go but sometimes doing other work as well.
I am also slightly chuckling at all of this, how we can be surprised that one of the stronger programs can have trouble winning all of its games against human players of this strength. How short a time ago we would have been surprised by a go playing program winning ANY of them.
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