A computer program that can solve the Go game for a 5x5 playing board. Dutch researcher Erik van der Werf achieved a world first with this program. A complete Go playing board has 19x19 rows. Van ...

Computers match or surpass top humans in a wide variety of games: Othello, Scrabble, backgammon, poker, even Jeopardy. But not Go. It's the one classic game where wetware still dominates hardware.

An artificial intelligence program has learned how to play the game of Go well enough to beat a human champion decisively in a fair match.

Google DeepMind's AI program beat the reigning European champion in the game of Go.

That is because in chess a computer can follow preprogrammed rules, but using this strategy for Go is not workable, because the game is largely about patterns rather than a set of logical rules ...