Computer Go (is hard!)

There is a great explanation of the challenges of computer Go at IEEE online this month. It is easy to assume the computer Chess problems and computer Go problems are much the same.  And this article makes a good cast that we can make some progress on computer Go by applying some of the techniques used with Deep Blue.  It also does a great job of explaining whey Go is so difficult to program. (Current computer Go champions have difficulty beating medium level amateurs.)