Algorithms to play Game of Go?

Question

What is the state of the art of algorithms to play the game of Go ?
Which articles (describing algorithms) are best to read ?

There is a StackExachge site devoted to Go, but not enough people commited to ask the question there.

Answer 1

All the current top bots use Monte Carlo -based algorithms. They're usually heavily adapted to Go and have many additional layers to support the MC algorithm in predicting the outcome of each move. You can look at an open source bot such as Fuego for an example.

Answer 2

This is the most basic resource start, but it is quite complete I dare to say