Research Related to the Game of NoGo

NoGo is a recent combinatorial game with simple rules but complex strategy. Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and its enhancements work well.

• Rules of NoGo
• Solving NoGo on small board sizes
• (Old) History of NoGo and competitions
• Publications and Web resources for NoGo
• Software to solve or play NoGo:
  • SBHSolver by H. Du. Has solved all rectangular boards with up to 27 points. Also see his Advances in Computer Games publication and his MSc thesis.
  • CGTSolver for Linear NoGo, also by H. Du. Has solved all 1 by n boards with up to 39 points. See his Computers and Games publication and his MSc thesis.
  • Two MCTS-based programs that play NoGo, built on Fuego:
    • BobNoGo by Bob Hearn and Martin Müller. Version 0.2, September 2014.
    • FxNoGo by Fan Xie

Created: Nov 29, 2011 Last modified: Sep 7, 2025 Martin Müller