Google DeepMind Beats Go Champion

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I'm certainly no expert at this but I heard that Go is a special case of the Multi-armed bandit problem. (The Wikipedia article contains some practical applications.) Approximately 10 years ago Sylvain Gelly wrote the following paper about it:

http://hal.univ-lille3.fr/file/index/doc...R-6062.pdf

Sylvain Gelly is one of the authors of MoGo:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?MoGo

The following date is important:

7 August 2008 MogoTitan vs. Kim MyungWan 8p on KGS

It was the match against the supercomputer Huygens. At that time a supercomputer needed several handicap stones in order to have a chance against a human Go master.

And now back to the present:

https://googleblog.blogspot.de/2016/01/a...me-go.html

Kim MyungWan will comment the games of Fan Hui against AlphaGo:

http://www.usgo.org/news/2016/01/myungwa...is-friday/

EDIT:

A few more links:

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-...ing-go.pdf

http://computer-go.org/pipermail/compute...08473.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-dKXOlsf98