I feel some commercial go programmers should enter his
program in the 9x9 ICGA go olympiads to let the chess programmers feel
where their place is in history... ...in the far past
"this uni guy with a programming technique from some decades ago"
already defeated Go4++ once last year and had quite reasonable results
in this years tournament. I think you're too optimistic about the
strength of the commercial Go programs. In fact, I think that if one is
able to build a program that plays significantly stonger than the latest
version of GnuGo, there is a very good chance to win against any
commercial program.