This paper presents the recent technical advances in Monte-Carlo Tree Search for the Game of Go, shows the many similarities and the rare differences between the current best programs, and reports the results of the computer-Go event organized at FUZZ-IEEE 2009, in which four main Go programs played against top level humans. We see that in 9x9, computers are very close to the best human level, and can be improved easily for the opening book; whereas in 19x19, handicap 7 is not enough for the computers to win against top level professional players, due to some clearly understood (but not solved) weaknesses of the current algorithms. Applications far from the game of Go are also cited. Importantly, the first ever win of a computer against a 9th Dan professional player in 9x9 Go occurred in this event.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.