Bernard Helmstetter

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Bernard Helmstetter, a French computer scientist, game researcher and programmer at Paris 8 University, a 5 Dan Go player, and along with Bruno Bouzy and Tristan Cazenave one of the pioneers in Monte-Carlo Tree Search and its application in Computer Go. Bernard Helmstetter is author of the Lines of Action program BING (Bing Is Not Gnuchess), which re-utilize large parts of code from GNU Chess, and the Go program Oleg.

=Selected Publications=
 * Bruno Bouzy, Bernard Helmstetter (2003). Monte Carlo Go Developments. Advances in Computer Games 10, pdf
 * Bernard Helmstetter, Tristan Cazenave (2003). Searching with analysis of dependencies in a solitaire card game. Advances in Computer Games 10, pdf
 * Bernard Helmstetter, Tristan Cazenave (2004). Incremental Transpositions. CG 2004, pdf
 * Tristan Cazenave, Bernard Helmstetter (2005). Combining tactical search and Monte-Carlo in the game of Go. IEEE CIG 2005, pdf
 * Tristan Cazenave, Bernard Helmstetter (2005). Search for transitive connections. Information Sciences, Vol. 175 No. 4, pdf

=External Links=
 * Helmstetter Bernard
 * Bernard Helmstetter's ICGA Tournaments
 * Sensei's Library: Bernard Helmstetter

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