"Fortunately, MCTS lends itself much more easily to parallelization" and "Although MCTS can benefit from parallel implementation, this benefit is not always as

"Fortunately, MCTS lends itself much more easily to parallelization" and "Although MCTS can benefit from parallel implementation, this benefit is not always as large as might be hoped" as no game-tree is constructed.[3] I think the assumption holds: we won't have to wait 15 years; in ~7 years (or fewer) we will have 9p Computer Go players. [1] https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/publications.html https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/publications.html [2] https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/ps/2013-CG-MCTS-Go-Limits.pdf https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/ps/2013-CG-MCTS-Go-... [3] http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Applications_files/grand-challenge.pdf http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Applications_fil...