Go is the next frontier in computer board game Artificial Intelligence. The game is simple enough for one to learn all of the rules in a day, but so far, no computer has managed to even compete with any professional players. The best programs in the world are beaten regularly by smart school-children!

My friend Adam has said that one reason he is interested in Go is because of the challenge that it presents to programmers and artificial intelligence graduate students. It is said that the game of Go will not be reliably “solved” in our lifetime by current non-quantum computing methods as chess has already been via Deep Blue.

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