Computer Go: A Research Agenda¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Müller, M.^{; 2}

Affiliations: Tsukuba, Japan

Note: [1] This article is an adapted and shortened revision of a paper presented at the CG’98 conference and published under the same title as Müller (1999) in Computers and Games, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. We thank the publisher and editors for the possibility to publish this amended version.

Note: [2] ETL Complex Games Lab, Tsukuba, Japan. Email: mueller@etl.go.jp.

Abstract: The field of computer Go has seen impressive progress over the last decade. However, its future prospects are unclear. This paper suggests that the obstacles to further progress posed by the current structure of the community are at least as serious as the purely technical challenges. To overcome the obstacles, three possible scenarios are developed. They are based on approaches previously used in computer chess, and aim at building the next generation of Go programs.

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1999-22206

Journal: ICGA Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 104-112, 1999