Monte-Carlo Tree Search in Settlers of Catan Istv´an Szita1 , Guillaume Chaslot1 , and Pieter Spronck2 1 Maastricht University, Department of Knowledge Engineering 2 Tilburg University, Tilburg centre for Creative Computing szityu@gmail.com, g.chaslot@micc.unimaas.nl, p.spronck@uvt.nl Abstract. Games are considered important benchmark tasks of artifi- cial intelligence research. Modern strategic b