My team did an implementation of alpha zero connect four a couple of years ago. Our findings are in a series of blog posts starting at https://medium.com/oracledevs/lessons-from-implementing-alph.... We didn't manage to get to perfection either on policy, but got pretty close. You can play against some versions of the network here: https://azfour.com
Your series of blog articles has been an important source of inspiration in writing AlphaZero.jl and I cite it frequently in the documentation. Thanks to you and your team!