Macro Platzner and Tobias Graf won the Best Paper Award for their paper "Adaptive Playouts in Monte Carlo Tree Search with Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning" at the conference Advances in Computer Games 2015 in Leiden (Netherlands).
At the same time they participated in the Computer Olympiad with their Go Program "Abakus" winning two silver and one bronze medal. At the Computer Olympiad computer programs play tournaments in several board games like go, chess or hex.