When TensorFlow was first released I used it to implement a CNN for move
prediction and evaluation, and I requested the addition of a function to
implement chain pooling: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/549
It's now implemented here:
While browsing the online, I found an interesting idea "chain pooling"
presented here:
https://github.com/jmgilmer/GoCNN
The idea is to have some early layers that perform a max-pool across
solidly-connected stones. I could also imagine it being useful to perform a
sum. So the input would be a