Computer Go Research (original) (raw)

Software

• Our Go program and framework Fuego. First computer program to win a 9x9 game on even against a top-ranked human player. Winner of the 9x9 Go competition at the Computer Olympiad 2009 in Pamplona, Spain. Second place in 19x19 behind Zen.
  • Fuego homepage on sourceforge
  • Fuego related publications
  • Fuego 1.1 Online documentation
  • CGOS 9x9 rating list
  • CGOS 19x19 rating list
  • Fuego's 19x19 KGS games
  • Fuego's 13x13 KGS games
  • Fuego's 9x9 KGS games

Research related to Computer Go

• Monte Carlo Tree Search.
• Combinatorial Game Theory.
• Solving tsume Go, or life and death problems in Go.
• Solving semeai.
• Proving the safety of territory and recognizing seki.

Publications

Some general publications on Go. For publications on specialized topics, please follow the links above.

M. Müller. Go-related research at the University of Alberta. In T. Ito and T. Nakamura, editors, The 9th Game Programming Workshop in Japan 2004, pages 22-23, Japan, 2004. IPSJ SIG-GI (Special Interest Group on Game Informatics). Extended abstract.

M. Müller. Computer Go. Artificial Intelligence, 134(1-2):145-179, 2002.

• compressed pdf, 592k. (an old version)

M. Müller. Review: Computer Go 1984 - 2000. In T. Marsland and I. Frank, editors, Computers and Games 2000, number 2063 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 426-435. Springer Verlag, 2001.

• pdf.

M. Müller. Computer Go: A research agenda.ICCA Journal, 22(2):104-112, 1999. A version of the 1998 Computers and Games paper adapted for readers with background in games other than Go.

• Abstract
• pdf, 172k

Miscellaneous

• Aug 13, 2007 - Here are the slides and game records for my talk held at the 2007 European Go Congress in Villach, Austria.
• Online companion to my survey on computer Go for AI Journal.Computer Go Test Collection, version 2.0.1.
• My old Go program Explorer, executable available in a freeware Mac OS 9 version
• For Mac OS 9 users, the original Smart Game Board
• I put the proceedings of the 1998 Complex Games Lab Workshop online, since they seem to have disappeared from the web. The papers relevant to Computer Go are by Yoshii, Sei and Kawashima, and Nagai.
• Archive of computer Go tournaments and game records up to 1997

Computer Go Links

• online Computer Go papers.
• computer-go mailing list Archives.
• CGOS Computer Go Server
• computer-go.info by Nick Wedd

Created: Jan 20, 1998 Last modified: Jun 25, 2012

Martin Müller