https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/gnugo_to_agz/ https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/gnugo_to_agz/ I happen to have recently written up a longer history

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/gnugo_to_agz/ https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/gnugo_to_agz/ I happen to have recently written up a longer history of Go AI. If you're wondering about what is special about Go in particular or what generalizes to other problems, give it a read.