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Is AI as good at Kriegspiel as it is at regular chess?

Is there a Go equivalent? If so, is AI any good at that?

And, if either answer is no: then why did DeepMind go straight to trying to solve a game that was both incomplete-information and realtime (Starcraft) instead of merely incomplete-information (Kriegspiel)?

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Kriegspiel is a very niche game. There are no professional players and it's not clear what it would mean to achieve superhuman performance.

At one point Stratego was the standard for incomplete-information (but non-random) games in AI research. That may no longer be considered challenging, but either way, crushing an AI tournament in that wouldn't attract the level of publicity DeepMind get from chess, go or Starcraft.

On an extremely tangential note: If you need some fun, short shows to relax, watch White Gold on Netflix. Stratego plays a small part in the second series.

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