HUMAN-COMPUTER GO REVOLUTION 2008

Article type: Other

Authors: Chaslot, Guillaume¹ | Hoock, Jean-Baptiste² | Rimmel, Arpad² | Teytaud, Olivier² | Lee, Chang-Shing³ | Wang, Mei-Hui | Tsai, Shang-Rong | Hsu, Shun-Chin⁴

Affiliations: The Netherlands; France; Taiwan

Note: [1] Maastricht University, MICC, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected].

Note: [2] Tao, Inria Saclay-IDF, Lri. Cnrs Umr 8623.

Note: [3] Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, Taiwan.

Note: [4] Dept. of Information Management, Chang Jun Christian University, Taiwan.

Abstract: During the last three years, the level of Go programs has improved tremendously due to a new technique: Monte-Carlo Tree Search. In 2008, several Human-Computer Go events have been organized to assess the level of the new programs. MOGO (in some contests called MOGO TITAN) and CRAZYSTONE, the two pioneer Monte-Carlo Go Tree Search programs, managed to defeat professional players for the first time in history. MOGO won on the 9x9 board, and MOGO TITAN on the 19x19 board with a 9-stones handicap. A short time later, CRAZYSTONE set a new record by winning a game on a 19x19 board with an 8-stones handicap. In this report, we present the results of the most important human-computer matches that took place in 2008, in the USA, Japan, and Taiwan.

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-2008-31310

Journal: ICGA Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 179-185, 2008