We experimented a simple yet powerful optimization for Monte-Carlo Go tree search. It consists in dealing appropriately with strings that have two liberties. The heuristic is cont...
Recently, Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has become a popular approach for intelligent play in games. Amongst others, it is successfully used in most state-of-the-art Go programs....
Guillaume Chaslot, Mark H. M. Winands, Istvan Szit...
The game of Go has a high branching factor that defeats the tree search approach used in computer chess, and long-range spatiotemporal interactions that make position evaluation e...
Nicol N. Schraudolph, Peter Dayan, Terrence J. Sej...