After Kasparov Vs Deep-Blue, a super computer as beaten another professional board player, but the big difference this time is the game! It was a Go game!

The game was played the 7th of August at the U.S. Go Congress, MoGo(software) running on Huygens(hardware) won against Kim MyungWan (8 dan of Go, it means that is a top top player

Huygens is far more powerful than Deep-Blue with floating point processing power of 15 Teraflop (more than 1000 times).

The big difference between playing chess and go, is the complexity of the game, the number of possible position on a Goban (the Go board) is 2.08168199382×10^{170 ,}

For more informations reads the links below:

Read about Go on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)

Go complexity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_complexity

The site of the project: http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/g.chaslot/muyungwan-mogo/

And probably one the best site about go (news, game,…): http://gobase.org/