Monte Carlo Tree Search in Lines of Action

Monte-Carlo Tree Search

representation of the game. It was programmed in LISP. Further use of abstraction was also studied by Friedenbach (1980). The combination of search, heuristics, and expert systems led to the best programs in the eighties. At the end of the eighties a new type of Go programs emerged. These programs made an intensive use of pattern recognition. This approach was discussed in detail by Boon (1990)...

Parallel Monte-Carlo Tree Search

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a new best-first search method that started a revolution in the field of Computer Go. Parallelizing MCTS is an important way to increase the strength of any Go program. In this article, we discuss three parallelization methods for MCTS: leaf parallelization, root parallelization, and tree parallelization. To be effective tree parallelization requires two techni...

Monte-Carlo Tree Search Solver

Recently, Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has advanced the field of computer Go substantially. In this article we investigate the application of MCTS for the game Lines of Action (LOA). A new MCTS variant, called MCTS-Solver, has been designed to play narrow tactical lines better in sudden-death games such as LOA. The variant differs from the traditional MCTS in respect to backpropagation and se...

Bayesian Inference in Monte-Carlo Tree Search

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) methods are drawing great interest after yielding breakthrough results in computer Go. This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to MCTS that is inspired by distributionfree approaches such as UCT [13], yet significantly differs in important respects. The Bayesian framework allows potentially much more accurate (Bayes-optimal) estimation of node values and node unce...

Monte Carlo tree search in Kriegspiel