
Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow
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The game of Go originated in China around 3000 years ago. The rules of the game are simple as follows:
The following is a default board size, which is of 19x19 lines:
19x19 Go board
Even with those simple rules, the game of Go is highly complex. There are around 2.08 x 10170 possible moves in a 19x19 Go compared to 1080 atoms in universe and 10120 possible moves in chess. Thus, the intellectual depth required to play the game of Go has captured human imagination for ages.
In 1997, IBM's DeepBlue defeated the then world champion Gary Kasparov in the game of chess. Almost two decades later, Google DeepMind's AI program AlphaGo defeated the 9-dan Go player and former world champion Lee Sedol. In order to understand the giant leap and achievement...