PhoenixGo

![PhoenixGo](images/logo.jpg?raw=true)

**PhoenixGo** is a Go AI program which implements the AlphaGo Zero paper
"[Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge](https://deepmind.com/documents/119/agz_unformatted_nature.pdf)".
It is also known as "BensonDarr" and "金毛测试" in [FoxGo](http://weiqi.qq.com/), 
"cronus" in [CGOS](http://www.yss-aya.com/cgos/), and the champion of 
[World AI Go Tournament 2018](http://weiqi.qq.com/special/109) held in Fuzhou China.

If you use PhoenixGo in your project, please consider mentioning in your README.

If you use PhoenixGo in your research, please consider citing the library as follows:

```
@misc{PhoenixGo2018,
  author = {Qinsong Zeng and Jianchang Zhang and Zhanpeng Zeng and Yongsheng Li and Ming Chen and Sifan Liu}
  title = {PhoenixGo},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Tencent/PhoenixGo}}
}
```

## Building and Running

### On Linux

#### Requirements

* GCC with C++11 support
* Baze