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Back then programs were not very good, and progress was slow. But in 2006 there was a breakthrough technique -- Monte Carlo tree search. Since then bots have improve very rapidly, about a stone every year, and Zen19 is 3d on KGS now (see



So who do you think will win the bet? What do you think about the future of computer go?



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Tromp won 4-0 Game 1 http://eidogo.com/#HV6TkFC Game 2 http://eidogo.com/#1gE2QFA7 Game 3 http://eidogo.com/#2Dao1GLA Game 4 http://eidogo.com/#1YFMXdg Tromp won 4-0 In 1997, John Tromp made a bet with Darren Cook that he would not lose a serious match with a computer Go player before the end of 2010. Now 13 years later the match has been scheduled to start December 28th.Bet details: http://dcook.org/gobet/details.html Back then programs were not very good, and progress was slow. But in 2006 there was a breakthrough technique -- Monte Carlo tree search. Since then bots have improve very rapidly, about a stone every year, and Zen19 is 3d on KGS now (see http://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSBotRatings for a history of bot progress).So who do you think will win the bet? What do you think about the future of computer go?-------------------------Update:Links to the games and result:



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