Publications Related to the Game of NoGo

In reverse chronological order, newest first.

• Du, H. Sorted Bucket Hash and Combinatorial Game Algorithms: Two Efficient Solvers for the Game of NoGo. MSc thesis, University of Alberta, 2025.
• H. Du and M. Müller. Solving Linear NoGo with Combinatorial Game Theory. Computers and Games (CG 2024), Springer LNCS 15550, pp. 54-65, 2025.
• H. Du, T. Wei and M. Müller. Solving NoGo on Small Rectangular Boards. Advances in Computer Games, Springer LNCS 14528, pp. 39-49, 2024.
• T. Cazenave. Monte Carlo Game Solver, Monte Carlo Search, MCS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1379, pp. 56-70, 2021.
• Gao, Y. and Wu, L. Efficiently Mastering the Game of NoGo with Deep Reinforcement Learning Supported by Domain Knowledge. Electronics 10 (13), doi 10.3390/electronics10131533, 2021.
• Y. Shan. Solving Games and Improving Search Performance with Embedded Combinatorial Game Knowledge. PhD thesis, National Chiao Tung University, 2013.
• P. She. The Design and Study of NoGo Program. MSc thesis, National Chiao Tung University, 2013.
• C.-W. Chou, O. Teytaud, S.-J. Yen: Revisiting Monte-Carlo Tree Search on a Normal Form Game: NoGo. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2011.
• Anti Atari Go. 2005.

Talks on NoGo Solvers

• Solving Linear NoGo with Combinatorial Game Theory. CG 2024 conference.
• Solving NoGo on Small Rectangular Boards. Advances in Computer Games 2023 conference.

Blogs and other Web Pages on NoGo

• Kyle Burke's blog on CGT covers NoGo
• Kyle Burke's result: Graph NoGo is NP-hard
• Tournament web pages: see under Publications and Web resources