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Microsoft has quietly released a first-party game on Xbox Live Arcade called “Path of Go”, a computerised version of the ancient Chinese board game of Go. What makes this neat is that, as the video below points out, teaching a computer to play chess is relatively easy. You can only make 20-30 moves at any one time. But in Go, there can be up to 361 moves possible at any one time, a realistic simulation of the game difficult.A team replica Patek Philippe 5109G Men's Watch from Microsoft's research labs has managed it, though, using the new “F Sharp” programming language (and the results of 250,000 actual matches) to create a credible, believable AI opponent for the game.

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