MoGo is a computer software dedicated to computer-Go. A brief video , an excellent longer video by F. Donzet and popularization in Plein-Sud special recherche 2008. It is based on

• Monte-Carlo evaluation;
• Tree Search principles;
• High-Performance Clusters for main events.

• MoGo won:
  • the first ever win against a pro 9p in 9x9 Go as black (agasint Zhou-Jun Xhou 9p, in Taipei, 2009) chinese audio report (National Education Radio Report) , the same in PDF , and a HTML doc here .
  • the first ever win against a pro in 9x9 Go as black (against Catalin Taranu, 5p, in Rennes 2009) ( Video des champs-libres partiellement diffusée sur France-3)
  • a handicap 7 game against a pro 9Dan (9p) player at Taiwan Open 2009; game available here (popularization papers here; radio francaise, interview par Laurent Ruquier ici )
  • a handicap 6 game against a pro 1Dan (1p) player at Taiwan Open 2009; game available here" (popularization papers here; radio francaise, interview par Laurent Ruquier ici )
  • a 9x9 game as white against a 2p/10Dan player at Taiwan Open 2009 ; game available here
  • The Hakone GPW Cup 2008
  • The 19x19 Computer Olympiads 2007
  • 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan, also opportunity for several games against humans ( popularization papers)
  • One of the games against Catalin Taranu
  • Two out of four 9x9 games against Motoki Noguchi in Clermont-Ferrand
• First ever win against a professional player in even game: game won against Guo Juan, Amsterdam 2007, 9x9 Go. Guo Juan won the two other games. more details
• First ever win against a professional player in even non-blitz game: game won against Catalin Taranu, Paris 2008, 9x9 Go. Catalin Taranu won the two other games. more details; some popularization papers
• First ever win against a professional player in 19x19 Go: game won against Kim Myungwan, 19x19 Go, Handicap 9 (yes, Kim is stronger than MoGo, by far!). more details here

• article "New Economist"
• article "Interstices"
• article "Inria"
• article "SlashDot"

• Famous 19x19 games:
  • The game won against Kim MyungWan (8p) on August 7th, 2008 with handicap 9 (in blitz, Kim won with handicap 9 and 11, and mogo won with handicap 12). Using 25\% of the cluster "Huygens"; detailed information here :

    Begin of the game; MoGo is black. H9.

    O2(white) will die.

    The left part will belong to white.

    Game almost finished.

    MoGo wins by 1.5 points.

    all comments welcome!

    sgf file

  • The game organized by the National University of Tainan, won on August 26th, 2008 with handicap 5. Using 5% of the cluster "Huygens". MoGo won, below a middle game position (MoGo is black). download
  • The 19x19 game lost against Catalin Taranu in spite of H9. Using a cluster provided by Bull; game organized by Recitsproque and the French Federation of Go. More information here. MoGo is black and plays a big mistake (left, MoGo plays P5 which creates a Ko for white) and looses (final position, right):

    

• Famous 9x9 games
  • 9x9 games organized on August 26th, 2008, by the National University of Tainan:
    • The game lost by MoGo as white download
    • The game won by MoGo as black download
    • The game won by MoGo as white download
  • The only 9x9 game won against Catalin Taranu (out of three games). Using a cluster provided by Bull; game organized by Recitsproque and the French Federation of Go. More information here.
    • MoGo is white and wins.
• Docs
  • Patterns in the Monte-Carlo part:technical report
  • The RAVE heuristic: Icml paper from S. Gelly and D. Silver
  • Parallelization: S. Gelly, J. B. Hoock, A. Rimmel, O. Teytaud and Y. Kalemkarian. THE PARALLELIZATION OF MONTE-CARLO PLANNING. Proceedings of ICINCO 2008 (Insticc Press), pp. 198-203.
  • Report from Christophe Fiter (in french): PDF
  • Go-expertise: EWRL 2008 paper (including: solving the Nakade problem and other improvements in the Monte-Carlo part)
  • See Sylvain Gelly's ph.D.
  • IEEE TCAIG paper
• Success story
  • article from the New Economist
  • article in Interstices
  • article in Inria's website
  • ICGA Computer Olympiad 19x19
  • 9x9 games against a 5th Dan player, 10 minutes per side
  • 9x9 games against a 5th Dan player, 30 minutes per side
  • Cgos ranking 19x19
  • Cgos ranking 9x9
  • classement kgs (il faut se logguer, possiblement en guest, et aller voir la "computer-go room" en categorie "social")
  • kgs tournaments (computer-go tournaments)
• Contacts (all comments welcome!):
  • Jean-Yves Audibert
  • Guillaume Chaslot
  • Louis Chatriot
  • Christophe Fiter
  • Sylvain Gelly (we will try not to disturb him any more with MoGo, as he now works here )
  • Jean-Baptiste Hoock
  • Remi Munos (the one who had the idea of plugging UCT in Monte-Carlo Go, as far as I remember (?) )
  • Julien Perez
  • Arpad Rimmel
  • Olivier Teytaud (olivier.teytaud@inria.fr)
  • Yizao Wang (who developped the very successful random player)
  • Remi Coulom provided many important informations for the development of MoGo (cf CrazyStone).
  • Parallel-people: Thomas Herault, Vincent Danjean, Grid'5000.
  • KGS-people, Cgos-people, computer-go-mailing-list-people, Tao, Linux.
• Download:
  • Binary only for the moment
  • Contact for a cvs-access: olivier.teytaud@inria.fr