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Lastly, I've heard that although computers are better at chess than people nowadays, a person with a computer aiding them is better than a computer.

The game go cannot even be replicated to the standards of professionals in todays computer. Professional go players can only get a decent game by another human player at the same level. At about the level of amateur dan or even single digit kyu, you can beat any computer. In the opening of chess there are 20 possible moves, while in go there are 361.

Number of possible positions in a game of go: 10^(10^48) to 10^(5.3 × 10^170)
Number of possible positions in a game of chess: ~10^43 to 10^50