SlugGo: A program that plays the game of Go

Together with Hierarchical Systems Research Foundation, we are developing a program to play the game of Go. We are not starting from scratch, instead we are using GNU Go as our starting point. Our main contribution is to use parallel processing to enhance the performance of the existing gnugo progam.

Here is an article about our work (link) from UCSC Currents.
Here is another article about our work (link) from UCSC Currents.
Here is a diagram overview (pdf) of how SlugGo uses parallel computing to do lookahead.
Here is Harry Wang's MS project report (pdf) from his work on SlugGo.
Here is Xiaoyou Zhang's MS thesis (pdf) from his work on SlugGo.
Here is Kai Wang's MS thesis (pdf) from her work on SlugGo.
Here is a link to the 3rd KGS Computer Go Tournament (link) in which SlugGo took first place.
Here is a paper that was presented at the Third International Conference on Baduk (pdf) at Myong-Ji University (link) in Korea in October 2005.

charlie@cs.ucsc.edu