361 |
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Competed in the first-ever Computer Go tournament in 1984 (though the name may be later); and in the 1998 Ing Cup. Private.
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agouti |
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Competed in CGF special event, 2007.
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AIGO |
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Runs on Palm 3 Shareware. Price = USD 8.
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AISYS King |
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Competed in Taiwan, 1989. Private.
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Alpha |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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AmiGo |
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Runs on Amiga OS 1.3 Said to play as strongly as EZ-Go. Free.
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Amigoplus |
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see AmiGo Runs on Unixderived from AmiGo Free. Download from here.
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Ando-Kun-Igo |
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Competed in 2002. Plays mirror Go. Private.
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AntIgo |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Arachne |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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Archmage |
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Competed in 1992 Computer Olympiad Private.
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Argus |
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Competed in 1995. Named after a hundred-eyed creature from Greek legend. Private.
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Atari-Go |
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Runs on Palm Plays a form of atari-Go (first capture Go) on a 10x10 board. Read more on its own page. Free.
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Augos (Dos) |
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see Augos Runs on DosUses AI techniques. Read more on its own page. Free. Download from here.
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Augos |
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Runs on Windows Uses AI techniques. Read more on its own page. Free. Download from here.
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Aya |
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Runs on Windows Aya traditionally used selective full board search up to 9 plies in 9x9. Search is extended 2 plies when horizon effect occurs. Evaluation function includes string capture search and connections search up to 5 plies (5 plies is 80 rating points stronger than 9 plies version because of fast evaluation function.). Eye recognition and group life and death are static. It has been extended to use MC methods, and uses 3×3 pattern templates extracted from 10,000 professional games. Read more on its own page. Free. Download from here.
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B/W |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Baduki |
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Runs on Unix, Linux Earlier version placed 21st in 1998 FOST cup. Provided as source code. Requires gtk+ 1.0.x. Free.
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Big Stone |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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Bit |
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First competed in ICGA, Pamplona, 2009. Private.
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BitStronger |
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Uses tree search and position evaluation.
Competed in 2008 ICGA, Beijing Private.
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Biwako |
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Competed in 1996. Private.
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boon |
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Competed in 2007 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Botnoid |
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Played on KGS. Evolved into "Lazarus". Private.
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break |
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competed in KGS tournament, July 2007 Private.
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Caren's Whisper |
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Competed in 2004 and 2005. Also known as "Caren". Private.
1. errno=1064
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Cascades |
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Competed in 2009 GPW Cup in japan Private.
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Cingo |
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This program competed in the 1st Computer Olympiad in 1988, winning no games. The only other thing we know about it is, its author was English.
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cl-go |
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Written in Lisp, and so OS-independent. Written by a team at Computer-Go-AG at the University of Hamburg. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Codan |
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Played in the 1987 Usenix tournament. Nothing else is known about it.
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Coldmilk |
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Played in GPW Cup, Japan, 2009.
Monte Carlo tree search.
Written in C++. Private.
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Contender |
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Competed in North American events in the 1990s. Originally known as "Infinity Go". Lynn Beus was the original author, James Logan's contributions came later. Private.
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Infinity Go |
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see Contender Private.
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CPS |
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Competed in 2008 ICGA, Beijing Private.
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Crazy Stone |
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Runs on Windows, iPhone Crazy Stone is based on the Monte-Carlo evaluation technique, combined with tree search. This paper describes how Crazy Stone works. Read more on its own page. Commercial. Price = USD60.
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Crithith |
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Competed in the 1998 North American event. Private.
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cyVersion1 |
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Use Monte-Carlo with UCT.
Written in C++. Private.
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Daigosan |
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Competed in the CGF special event, 2006
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Great Hon-in-bow |
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see Daihoninbo This version competed in the 1992 Ing Cup. Its name is a joke by the author, "dai" is Japanese for "great".Private.
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Daihoninbo |
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Competed in 1991 Ing Cup Private.
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Dariush |
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Runs on Windows Plays on odd board sizes from 9x9 to 19x19. Allows editing of games, with comments and variations. Contains joseki and fuseki dictionaries. Supports .go, .mgt, .sgf, .ght, .ugf and .ugi file formats.. Read more on its own page. Free. Download via here.
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Darren's program |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
1. errno=1064
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DFGO |
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Competed in 1996. Private.
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Dimwit |
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UCT with adaptive MC. Written in C++. Private.
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Don |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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Dragon |
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Runs on ran on an Acer in 1986. Came second in the 1986 "World Computer Go Championship", and third in the 2006 "World Computer Go Congress". Written in C. Private.
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dtlgo |
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Written in C++. Uses UCT. Private.
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E.T. |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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EGo |
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Runs on Dos Has a range of nine "personalities" with distinct playing styles. Shareware. Price = USD 25 or GBP 18. Download via here. Can be bought from http://webpages.charter.net/suew.
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EZ-Go |
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see EGo Runs on DosCut-down version of Bruce Wilcox's EGO (described in BGJ 100). This version has only two of the "personalities". Read more on the BGA's page. Free. Download from here.
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Engine |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Erica |
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Played in 2008 ICGA, Beijing.
A UCT-based program with a simple opening book.
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Ether |
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Competed in 2002. Author not known to us. Private.
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EVA-01 |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Explorer |
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Runs on Mac Recommended. Free since October 2001. Read more on its own page. Free. Download from here.
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Swiss Explorer |
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see Explorer Runs on Mac
The old (1988) version of Explorer, written in Modula 2. Private.
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FirstGo |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Flexgo |
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Played in 2008 ICGA, Beijing
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Fluke |
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A Monte Carlo program written in Java. Development started around 16th January 2008. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Flute |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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Fomalhaut |
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Runs on Windows A very simple bot based loosely on an email sent to the computer go list by D.Fotland on 2 Dec 2004. Has no look-ahead. Written in Haskell.
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FreeGoban |
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Runs on Mac OSX FreeGoban is a derivative of Goban, a full featured Go application. Currently, FreeGoban only allows playing against GnuGo. It is possible that it will include more of Goban features in the future. Read more on its own page. Open source. Download from here.
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Friday |
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did well in early "World Computer Go Championship" events Private.
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Fudo |
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Runs on Linux, Windows Formerly known as 'GGMC Go'. Based on the technical report on Mogo (RR-6062.pdf). Written using C. Fudo is a Japanese word, means "never move". This version features network parallelism of MC/UCT. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Fuego |
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Runs on unix Fuego is a collection of C++ libraries for developing software for the game of Go. It includes a Go player using Monte-Carlo tree search. Read more on its own page. Open source. Download from here.
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Fuego 0.4 (various Windows builds) |
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see Fuego Runs on WindowsBen Lambrecht's builds for Windows Free. Download from here.
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Fumiko |
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Competed in the 1992 North American event. Private.
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Fungo |
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Runs on Windows Private. Can be bought from http://www.intelisoft.org/.
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Fungo (free version) |
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see Fungo Runs on WindowsPlays well (for a program), but slowly. This is like the full commercial version of Fungo, except that you are restricted in the number of times you can play it. Free.
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Game |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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Gargoyle |
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Competed in 2004. Private.
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Gb0 |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Gekishin |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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GGMC Go |
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Runs on Windows, Playstation3 GGMC Go is now known as Fudo Go. GGMC Go is based on Monte-Carlo Simulation and UCT algorithm and runs on both PC and Playstation 3 (Cell BE). GGMC Go will be distributed in source code. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Gizumoko |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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GL7 |
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Runs on Windows Written in LPA Prolog. Uses a Knowledge Based (Artificial Intelligence) approach. Built around an explicit representation of Go concepts and rules. Private.
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GMS |
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Runs on Windows? Competed in 2001. Author not known to us. Private.
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GNU Go (Mac build) |
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see GNU Go Runs on MacWritten in C. Open source.
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GNU Go (Palm build) |
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see GNU Go Runs on Palm PilotPlays badly. Open source.
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GNU Go |
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Runs on Unix, Linux GNU Go is free (in the sense of "free speech") Go-playing software. Many people have contributed to its code. Other Go-playing programs, such as SlugGo, incorporate larger or smaller portions of GNU Go code. Read more on its own page. Open source.
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GNU Go (Windows build) |
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see GNU Go Runs on Windows 95/98/NTOpen source.
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GNU Go (Windows CE2 build) |
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see GNU Go Runs on Windows CE2Available as source code, or compiled for StrongARM, MIPS, or SH3. Needs up to 4Mb of memory. Open source.
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GNU Go (Windows CE3 build) |
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see GNU Go Runs on Windows CE3Available as source code, or compiled for StrongARM, MIPS, or SH3. Needs up to 4Mb of memory. Open source.
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GNU Go (Mac OSX build) |
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see GNU Go Runs on Mac OSXRead more on its own page. Free.
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MonteGNU |
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see GNU Go A fork of GNU Go incorporating MC codePrivate.
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GNU Go (various Windows builds) |
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see Gnu Go Runs on WindowsBen Lambrecht's builds for Windows Free. Download from here.
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Go (a) |
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Competed in Taiwan, 1989. Private.
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Go (b) |
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Competed in 1991 Ing Cup Private.
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Go (c) |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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Go Dipper |
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Competed in 2000. Private.
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Go game machine |
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Runs on Windows From the Nihon Ki-in, and Tei Meikou 9p. Japanese language. Plays only on a 9x9 board. Reasonably strong. Very fast. Intended as an introduction to Go, particularly for children. Recommended. This is the Japanese-language version Use free, distribution restricted. Download from here.
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Go game machine - English-language version |
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see Go game machine Runs on WindowsFrom the Nihon Ki-in, and Tei Meikou 9p. English language. Plays only on a 9x9 board. Reasonably strong. Very fast. Intended as an introduction to Go, particularly for children. Recommended. Read more on its own page. Use free, distribution restricted.
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Go Generation |
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Runs on Windows? Private.
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Go Guru |
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Competed in the 1989 North American event. Private.
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Go Intellect |
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Runs on Mac An early version was written in Modula 2, a later one in C/C++. Commercial. Price = USD 59. Can be bought from http://www.yutopian.com/go/.
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Go Master |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Go Star |
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Runs on Windows Private.
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Go Professional |
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see Go++ Runs on 32-bit WindowsMick Reiss's program Go4++ became known as Go++ on May 1st, 2003. Read more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Commercial.
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Go Professional II |
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see Go++ Runs on 32-bit WindowsMick Reiss's program Go4++ became known as Go++ on May 1st, 2003. Read more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Commercial.
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Go Professional III |
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see Go++ Runs on 32-bit Windows
Read more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Commercial. Price = GBP 39.99.
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Go4++ |
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see Go++ Runs on WindowsMick Reiss's program Go4++ became known as Go++ on May 1st, 2003. Read more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Private.
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Go++ |
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Runs on Windows Mick Reiss's program Go4++ became known as Go++ on May 1st, 2003. Read more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Commercial. Price = US$35.
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Go-Game |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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Go169 |
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Runs on PalmOS 5 You can choose the players, the board size (9x9, 13x13, or 19x19), the number of handicap stones, komi, and Japanese or Chinese scoring by selecting the options from the menu. The program scores the game after it is finished. Read more on its own page. Free. Download from here.
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TuyoiIgo |
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see Go4++ Runs on WindowsCommercial version of Go4++, available in Japan Commercial.
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Go81 |
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Runs on Palm Plays on small boards. Read more on its own page. Free.
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GoAhead |
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Runs on Windows The URL below appears to be a manual (in German). So I suppose it must be available somehow. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Goanna |
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Uses MC, written in C++. Private.
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Goanna. |
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Runs on Dos? Competed in 1984 Usenix tournament. Played very fast. "goanna played very quickly and methodically. it was easy for a human to beat but befuddled other go playing programs of the era." Private.
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Goban |
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Runs on Mac OSX Acts as a front end for GnuGo version 3.2. Uses SGF format. Can also be used as an internet Go client. Source code, in C, is available. Read more on its own page. Use free, distribution restricted.
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Gobble |
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Competed in 1999. Plays on a 9x9 board using simulated annealing. Private.
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Goblin |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Goboh |
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"Highly distributed UCT"
Played in 2008 ICGA, Beijing Private.
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GoComputer |
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Private.
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GOddess |
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Runs on 32-bit Windows PC version of "Go Intellect" Commercial. Price = USD 69. Can be bought from http://www.yutopian.com/go/.
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Godot |
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Runs on Java Java applet at URL below plays 9x9 Go Read more on its own page. Free.
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GoeMate |
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Runs on Windows A re-write of HandTalk. World computer Go champion in 2001, 2002. Its web site http://www.wulu.com/sale.htm has vanished. Commercial.
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Shudan Taikyoku |
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see GoeMate Runs on Windowssupplied by Koei Read more on its own page. Commercial. Price = 12,800 Yen.
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WisFlower |
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see GoeMate Runs on WindowsGoeMate competed under this name in 2001. Private.
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GoFigure |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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GOG |
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Runs on PSI/UX + SIMPOS The approach of GOG is based on simulating a human player's thinking mechanism. As a Go-playing program requires basic AI techniques such as searching, processing ambiguous patterns, exceptional processing, and cooperative problem solving, it is a suitable research subject for knowledge processing technologies. Due to the high branching factor of the Go game tree, computer chess type full board search becomes hopeless in this domain. In the stage of board recognition and planning, GOG simulates the human player's "focus of attention". Written in CESP. Read more on its own page. Free.
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GoGame |
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Runs on Dos Shareware. Price = USD 20. Download from here.
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Gogataki |
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Competed in 2004 and 2005. Private.
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Gogelaar |
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Competed in 1992 Computer Olympiad. The name is Dutch for "juggler". Private.
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Gogol |
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Competed in 1996. Private.
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Gogonomitan |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Gokutsubushi |
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Competed in 1999. Author not known to us. Private.
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Golem |
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Won the 1987 Usenix tournament. Nothing else is known about it. Competed in the 1989 North American event. Tactically strong, otherwise weak.
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Goliath, free Windows version |
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see Goliath Runs on WindowsThis attractive cut-down version of the commercial Goliath plays on 9x9 and 13x13 boards, and the first few moves on full boards. N.B.: you can disable its music by renaming its "music" folder. Read more on the BGA's page. Free.
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Goliath, free Mac version |
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see Goliath Runs on MacThis attractive cut-down version of the commercial Goliath plays on 9x9 and 13x13 boards, and the first few moves on full boards. N.B.: you can disable its music by renaming its "music" folder. Free.
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Goliath |
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Runs on Mac Excellent user interface. Almost as good as HandTalk; plays more conservatively. Commercial. Price = USD 49.
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Goliath, commercial Windows version |
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see Goliath Runs on Windows1989 version ran on an Acer Excellent user interface. Almost as good as HandTalk; plays more conservatively. Commercial. Price = USD 49.
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GoLife I |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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GoLois |
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Runs on Windows Uses MC methods. Read more on its own page. Private.
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gomorra |
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Gomorra is a MC searcher using UCT with several enhancements. It uses
mogo-like playouts and the progressive widening technique as described by Rémi Coulom. Some patterns are learned from a database of around
50,000 professional games from GoGoD.
Some parts are influenced by ideas found in the source of libEgo. It is able the use many cores and to run playouts on a GPGPU. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Gonzo |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Gooter |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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GoriMuchu |
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Competed in 2004 and 2005. Private.
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Goro |
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Runs on Windows Competed in 1995. Private.
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Gosaku |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Gosynier |
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Competed in 2000. Private.
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GoTraxx |
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An experimental program that attempts to play the game of Go using a combination of AI (artificial intelligence) techniques – primarily expert systems with domain specific knowledge and various searching methods and optimizations. Written in C#. Formerly known as SharpGoBot. Read more on its own page. Open source. Download from here.
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GottaGo |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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GoWind |
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Competed in 2003. Plays on KGS. Private.
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Gozilla |
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Runs on linux (unix) Gozilla tries to emulate professional play by matching patterns in a database constructed via the observation of pro games. Its ultimate goal is not only to play like professionals, but also to play in the style of a given pro. It plays on KGS. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Great 5 |
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Runs on Windows Private.
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greenpeep |
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UCT with MoGo-style enhancements, and playouts guided by patterns extracted from offline self-play. Private.
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Grid Cosmos |
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Runs on Windows Uses pattern recognition and SlugGo like routine. Free.
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Gtkgo |
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Runs on Unix Open source.
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Hit |
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see Hamlet Runs on Windows"Hamlet" competed using the name "Hit" in 1997. Private.
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Hamlet |
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Runs on Windows Also known as "Hit", and as "Medusa". Finished second in the 1998 FOST Cup. After this, a claim was made that it contained code plagiarised from an older version of HandTalk. This claim was investigated and upheld; its second place was removed and the FOST organisers asked for its prize money to be returned. Private.
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Medusa |
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see Hamlet Runs on WindowsHamlet was marketed as "Medusa" by Dream Tech, Inc., in South Korea. Commercial.
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HandTalk (free version) |
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see HandTalk Runs on DosA version of Professor Chen Zhixing's HandTalk, which plays only on a 9-by-9 board. Its web site http://www.wulu.com/sale.htm has vanished. Free. Download via here.
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HandTalk, version 94.01 |
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see HandTalk Runs on DosThe world computer Go champion in 1995. Read more on the BGA's page. Commercial.
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HandTalk |
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Runs on Dos Winner of many events from 1993 to 1997, after which it was re-written using the name GoeMate. The name HandTalk was revived in 2005. Read more on the BGA's page. Commercial. Price = USD 50.
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HandTalk version III |
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see HandTalk Won the 2005 World Computer Go Congress.Engone written in Assembler, interface in C++. Private.
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HappyGO |
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Private.
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Haruka |
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Runs on Windows Private.
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Saikouhou |
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see Haruka Runs on WindowsCommercial version of Haruka, available in Japan Commercial.
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hcBot |
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hcBot is tha name of its KGS account. I do not know its real name. It is a heavily modified version of GNU Go, rewritten in C++, using MoGo as an MC engine for the middle game. Private.
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Heaven Walk |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Hikaru |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Also known as "Liuteria"? Private.
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Hirartsuka |
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Competed in 1991 Ing Cup Private.
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HouseBot |
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HouseBot 0.6.1 (released 17 Sept. 2007) is very close to a pure monte carlo search engine. It supports search spread over multiple cores, and has four different 1-ply search modes.
Written in d. Plays on KGS Read more on its own page. Open source.
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Hwa Hsia |
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Competed in 1994. Private.
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Igo Meijin |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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IGO1999 |
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see IGO1997 Runs on Windows?Later version was called "IGO1999". Not related to David Fotland's "Igo" and "Igowin". Private.
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IGO1997 |
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Runs on Windows? Later version was called "IGO1999". Not related to David Fotland's "Igo" and "Igowin". Private.
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igod |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Igoppi |
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Runs on Mac Read more on its own page. Commercial. Price = 980 Yen.
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Ijoh Kankaku |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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Ijokankaku |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Image |
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Competed in 2000. Private.
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Imago |
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Runs on Dos
Progo became Imago when it was good enough to be sold. Commercial.
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Minimago |
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see Imago Runs on Dos9*9 version of ImaGo. Described in BGJ 98. Free. Download from here.
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Indigo |
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Runs on Windows Read more on its own page. Free. Download via here.
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JaGo |
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Runs on Java Competed in 1999. Private.
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javago |
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Read more on its own page. Open source. Download from here.
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JayGurudev |
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Registered for 2005 Gifu Challenge. Apparently did not play.
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jiango |
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Uses a Monte-Carlo-based algorithm with many added heuristics Private.
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Jim |
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Runs on Dos? Played in the 1984 Usenix computer Go tournament, where it was much the slowest program. It lost all its games by making suicide moves. Private.
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Jimmy |
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Runs on Windows First competed in 1995. Written in C++. Now based on "MCT". Private.
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Kago |
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Private.
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Kasumi |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Katsunari (free version) |
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see Katsunari Runs on Windows13x13 version of Katsunari Read more on its own page. Free. Download via here.
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Katsunari |
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Runs on Windows? Uses alpha-beta search Read more on its own page. Private.
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KCC Igo |
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Runs on Windows In 1998, this program was found to contain code plagiarised from 'HandTalk'. Private.
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Silver Igo |
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see KCC Igo Runs on WindowsA version of KCC Igo, marketed in Japan. First competed in the 3rd FOST Cup in 1997, where it was operated by Naritatsu Yamamoto. Also known as "Ginsei Igo" - "ginsei" is Japanese for "silver". Commercial.
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Keeping Awkaward |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Kiai |
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Private.
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Kigo |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Kinoa Igo |
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Competed in 2004, 2006 and 2007. Private.
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Kiseki |
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Competed in 1999. Uses MC/UCT. Private.
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kurtBot |
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Named after the logician Kurt Gödel.
Written in Haskell. Private. Download from here.
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KuruKuru |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Lanco |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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Lazarus |
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developed out of "Botnoid" Private.
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leeGO2 |
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Competed in 2009 GPW Cup
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Progo |
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see Leela Leela was originally called Progo, before its author realised that there already was a program called ProgoPrivate.
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Leela |
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Runs on Windows Named after one-eyed cartoon character Turanga Leela. Uses selective UCT-like search with knowledge- and pattern-guided playouts. Read more on its own page. Commercial. Price = USD 49.99. Download via here.
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Leela lite |
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see Leela Runs on WindowsLeela lite is a slimmed down version of Leela which omits the 19 x 19 board and the highest playing levels. This makes it an ideal introduction to the game. It is freely available. Read more on its own page. Free. Download via here.
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libEGO |
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Plays on KGS. Written in C++. Free.
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Liedesce Flesch |
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Competed in 1991 Ing Cup Private.
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Lingo |
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Competed in 2008 ICGA, Beijing Private.
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Lithops |
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Hopes to compete in 2011. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Lumpy |
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Runs on Mac A simple Go-playing program, based on Wally. Free. Download from here.
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Mac |
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Competed in 1991 Ing Cup Private.
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Magic Go |
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Competed in Taiwan, 1989. Private.
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Magog |
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Competed in 2002. Private.
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Mango |
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Plays on KGS. Read more on its own page. Private. Download via here.
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Many Faces of Go, version 11 |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on WindowsNow superseded by version 12 Read more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Commercial. Price = USD 45. Can be bought from Smart Games.
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Many Faces of Go |
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Runs on Windows Version 12. This is the first version of many Faces of Go to use Monte Carlo methods. At its strongest "2-kyu" setting (which is around 3-dan on 9×9 boards), it uses Monte Carlo methods. At settings from 4-kyu down to 9-kyu, it uses alpha-beta search with null-move. At weaker settings it uses one-move lookahead. It combines these techniques with its "classical" knowledge base, to give a program which plays five stones beter than version 11. It also includes the tutorial and other material of version 11. Read more on its own page. Commercial. Price = USD 49.95. Download via here. Can be bought from Smart Games.
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Many Faces of Go, version 12, free version |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on WindowsFree trial version of the full version 12. If you try this and like it, you already have the full version, you just need to pay for a registration key to unlock all its features. Read more on its own page. Free. Download via here. Can be bought from Smart Games.
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Igo |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on DosFree 9*9 version of David Fotland's Many Faces of Go. Recommended as the best free introduction to Go for those who have Dos but not Windows. Includes an introductory tutorial about Go. Now includes the GOVIEW program for viewing games in Ishi format. Free. Download from here.
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Igowin |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on WindowsFree 9*9 version of David Fotland's Many Faces of Go. Strongly recommended as the best free introduction to Go for those who have Windows. Includes an introductory tutorial about Go. Supersedes Igo, which was a Dos program. Read more on its own page. Free. Download from here.
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Many Faces of Go, version 9 |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on DosPossibly the best Dos program for playing Go. Close behind the leaders in playing strength, and well ahead of all rivals, except perhaps Nemesis, in tutorial value. Read more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Commercial. Price = GBP 50.
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Many Faces of Go, version 10 |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on WindowsRead more on its own page and on the BGA's page. Commercial.
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G2 |
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see Many Faces of Go Two versions, G2.5 and G2.25, competed in the 1988 Usenix computer Go event.It was also know as 'Shogun'. Private.
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Shogun |
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see Many Faces of Go Also known as "G2". Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987.Private.
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Cosmos |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on Dos. Was run on an HP machine.Many Faces of Go was initially marketed as "Cosmos" Commercial.
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Igowin Tutor |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on iPhone/iPodFree 9*9 version of David Fotland's Many Faces of Go. Recommended as the best free introduction to Go for those who have Dos but not Windows. Includes an introductory tutorial about Go. Free. Download from here.
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Igowin HD |
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see Many Faces of Go Runs on iPadFree 9*9 version of David Fotland's Many Faces of Go. Recommended as the best free introduction to Go for those who have Dos but not Windows. Includes an introductory tutorial about Go. Free.
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Mao |
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Competed in 2004. Author not known to us. Private.
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Martha |
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Competed in 2000. Private.
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Masayan |
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Runs on Windows? Sold in Japan as Igo Shodan Private.
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MayoiGo |
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Competed in CGF events in 2005 and 2006. An old version was called Nanashi.
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MC_Ark |
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A Monte-Carlo Go program based on Rémi Coulom's paper "Computing Elo ratings of move patterns in the game of Go."
Competed in 2008 ICGA, Beijing Private.
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MechaGozilla |
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Credit should also be given above to the entire MoGo team. MechaGozilla is MoGo running on a multi-core cluster. The name length restriction on KGS causes it to play there as MechaGozil. Private.
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Microgo |
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Private.
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ModGo |
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Competed in 1991 Ing Cup Private.
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MoGo |
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The first Go-playing program to use Monte Carlo methods with UCT (Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees). MoGo is a UCT/MC program playing go. It uses patterns in the simulations and improvements in the UCT tree search. The initial development was made during the Yizao Wang's internship at INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique with Sylvain Gelly, Rémi Munos and Olivier Teytaud. Read more on its own page. Private. Download via here.
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troisgo |
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see Mogo A version of Mogo, running on a multi-core clusterPrivate.
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MogoTW |
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This is a joint project between the MoGo team and a Taiwanese team. It shares code with MoGo.
Started to play in KGS bot tournaments in September 2009. Commercial.
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Monkey Jump |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Moyoman |
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Runs on java (Mac, Unix, Windows) The purpose of this project is to create a program which is rated at least 1 Dan on the American Go Association scale. A secondary purpose is to allow the end user to examine how the program generates a move. Read more on its own page. Open source.
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Muramatsu |
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Competed in 2009 GPW Cup in Japan Private.
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Mutsuki |
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Competed in 1996. Private.
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Nakano Hito |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Narugo |
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As at March 2006, not yet fully tested Read more on its own page. Private.
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NeuroGo |
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Runs on Unix Go program using a heavy-weight neural network with sophisticated architecture for global position evaluation. Read more on its own page. Private.
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Neuron |
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Competed in 1992 Computer Olympiad One of the very few successful neural network based go programs (another is WinHonte). Private.
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NineHeadBird |
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Written in C++, with opening and endgame databases.
Competed in 2008 ICGA, Beijing. Plays on KGS as zogo?Bot Private.
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Nio |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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nomitan |
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Winner of 2009 CGF Open Private.
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Northern Star |
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Runs on Windows Private.
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Ocean |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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Odi |
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Does a simple 1-ply search Private.
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Og |
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Played in the 1987 Usenix tournament. Nothing else is known about it.
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Goo |
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see Ogo Private.
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Goog |
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see Ogo Like Goo with the addition of some mirror strategyPrivate.
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Ogo |
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Runs on Dos? Competed in early Computer Go events. Inclined to play suicide moves. Private.
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Oog |
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see Ogo Derived from the same author's Ogo.Private.
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Olego |
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Runs on Unix An object-oriented platform and algorithms for the game of GO. Uses material from GNU Go. Read more on its own page. Free.
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Olympus |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Orego |
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Runs on java (Mac, Unix, Windows) Read more on its own page. Open source. Download via here.
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Oz |
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Read more on its own page.
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Pachi |
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"UCT with some MoGo playout features, RAVE and maybe some bugs" Read more on its own page. Open source. Download from here.
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Paduk Invincible |
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Competed in 2001. Private.
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pagebot |
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Private.
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Peanut |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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pebbles |
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Based on UCT and RAVE, using only published algorithms. Plays on CGOS. Private.
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Per Stone |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Perception |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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Peter's Go |
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Runs on Windows Started development about 1995. Supports SGF format, uses MC methods. Version 4 released 2007-10-20. Read more on its own page. Free. Download from here.
1. errno=1064
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Petronius |
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Competed in North American events. Private.
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Poka |
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Competed in North American events. Private.
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Polar Star |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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Polygon |
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Competed in 1992 Computer Olympiad Private.
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Progo. |
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Competed in 1991 Ing Cup Private.
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Project |
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Derived from 'DumbBot', which may be the same as the program listed here as 'unknown(1)'. Private.
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Prototype |
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Competed in North American events in 1992 and 1993. Private.
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PyBot |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Qubic |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Quick Go |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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Quickie Go |
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Runs on Mac Interface to both GnuGo 2.6 and GnuGo 3.4 for the Classic Mac (including 68K) Read more on its own page. Open source.
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QYZ |
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Runs on Windows QYZ is an engine only, it uses GoKnot as its front end. It is written in C, Pascal, and Assembler. It uses Monte Carlo Tree Search, guided by Direction of Play. It uses the name "Quasiwise".
"QYZ learned go from humans, it has huge databases of: urgency, fuseki, joseki and the distributions of a huge set of estimators.
Private.
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Ranka |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Rex |
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Competed in 1992 Computer Olympiad Private.
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RGO |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Right Thought |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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Riscigo |
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Competed in 1994. Private.
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Rock |
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Competed in 2009 CGF Open, GPW Cup, UEC Cup Private.
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Roverandom |
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An MC-based program. Competed on KGS in December 2008, as Rover01 and Rover13.
Named after a Tolkien character, a white puppy with black ears. Private.
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Sason |
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Competed in 1994. Private.
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Shikousakugo |
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Runs on Windows? Competed in 2002, when its name was given as "Shiko-SaKuGo". Read more on its own page. Private.
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SimonBot |
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Competed on KGS in July 2007 Private.
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SimpleGo |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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SlugGo |
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Runs on Mac OS-X Runs on a multi-cpu cluster of Macintosh computers. Could be run on any Unix or Linux system with MPI. Uses GNU Go as an underlying engine to supply suggested moves for global look ahead. Each cpu in the cluster is used to investigate a different global lookahead path. In addition to adding global look ahead to GNU Go, SlugGo also includes additional heuristics. Private.
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Smakky |
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Competed in first European Open Go Championship, 1987. Private.
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SmartBot |
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Plays on KGS. Not related to Anders Kierulf's SmartGo Private.
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SmartGo |
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Runs on Windows Read more on its own page.
Commercial. Price = USD 89
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Spirit of Go |
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Competed in 2004. Private.
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Star of DongHwa |
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Competed in 2002. Author not known to us. Private.
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Star of Poland (free version) |
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see Star of Poland Runs on DosFree version of Janusz Kraszek's Star of Poland. Only plays about 50 moves. Free. Download from here.
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Star of Poland |
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Runs on Dos 1989 version ran on an Acer Private.
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Steenvreter |
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First appeared in 2007 Computer Olympiad. "My impression is that Steenvreeter is a MC-program because it sometimes played moves that I find typical of MC-programs, but that it uses some very good tactics and L&D reading in the playouts. It played very strong in all tactical situations as far as I could see in a quick overview. Or perhaps it is a hybrid of a strong tactics engine and MC. Just a guess." – Magnus Persson. The above quotation triggered this conversation on KGS (evdw is Steenvreter's author): evdw: Magnus's impression is correct :-) Private.
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Stone |
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Private.
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StoneCraft |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Stoned |
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Runs on Windows Plays at random, and therefore very badly, except that it does not fill its own one-point eyes. Free.
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StoneFighter |
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Played in 2008 ICGA, Beijing Private.
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StoneGrid |
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Private.
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StoneLord |
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uses single-ply Monte-Carlo Private.
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stop |
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Runs on java Read more on its own page. Use free, distribution restricted. Download from here.
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Suzie |
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An alpha-beta searcher. Scales well, does not (yet) ponder, has primitive time algorithm. Uses Null-Move Pruning, Multi-Cut and Futility Pruning. History Pruning does not work so far. Private.
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Tai Go |
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Competed in 1996. Private.
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Taikyoku Igo Mituki |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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Takuchan |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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Tango |
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This program competed in the 1st Computer Olympiad in 1988, winning one game. The only other thing we know about it is, its author was German.
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TeamGo |
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Competed in North American events in the 1990s. Private.
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Tengen |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Tengen 1 |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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thcGo |
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Uses a recurrent cellular neural network. Private.
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Thinking |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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Tls |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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Toaster |
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Toaster is an experimental Monte-Carlo bot. Currently [2008-06-13] it uses RAVE,
but that may change soon. There's nothing original about it (yet). Private.
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Tokyo |
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Competed in 1994. Private.
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Tombo |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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Topgoer |
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Runs on Windows? Competed in 2000. Private.
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TS-Go |
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Competed in 2000. Private.
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Tsunami |
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Competed in the 1989 North American event. Private.
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TurboGo (Dos version) |
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see TurboGo Runs on DosShareware Go-playing program by Arnoud van der Loeff. Includes an English-language tutorial. Recommended. described in BGJ 94 Read more on its own page. Shareware. Price = NLG 25. Download from here.
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TurboGo |
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Runs on 32-bit Windows Shareware Go-playing program by Arnoud van der Loeff. Includes an English-language tutorial. Recommended. described in BGJ 94 Read more on its own page. Shareware. Price = USD 30. Download from here.
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Turtle |
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Competed in 1999. Private.
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Twigo 32 |
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Competed in 1997. Private.
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Twinbot |
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Plays on KGS. Private.
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TY |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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Ujiie Igo |
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Competed in 1999. Author not known to us. Could this be another name for "Martha"? Private.
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unknown (1) |
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Plays on KGS. Name is 'DumbBot'? Private.
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unknown (2) |
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Runs on Dos Real name not known Shareware. Price = USD 60.
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unknown (4) |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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unknown (5) |
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Competed in (Ing Cup) in Taiwan, 1987. Private.
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unknown (6) |
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Runs on Dos £14.95 personal use; £30 club use. Shareware. Price = GBP 14.95. Download from here.
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unknown (7) |
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Runs on Dos Real name not known. Author not known. Free, cheap-and-cheerful, go-playing program. Good if you want something small and simple. Free. Download from here.
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unknown (8) |
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Runs on BBC Micro Played in the first-ever computer Go tournament. Private.
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Utoro |
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Competed in 1995. Private.
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Valkyria |
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Uses Monte Carlo techniques, with superheavy playouts. Created in 2006. Private.
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Viking |
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Runs on Windows Viking uses handmade patterns to the extreme, for move generation and for the evaluation function. It tries to compute an approximate temperature of moves, and selects the move with highest temperature. It has a good, but slow, life and death solver. Private.
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Wakaba |
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Competed in 1999. Author not known to us. Private.
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Wally |
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Runs on Dos A simple Go-playing program by W.H.Hewman, with C source. described in BGJ94 Free. Download from here.
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Wallyplus |
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Runs on Unix derived from Wally Free. Download from here.
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WCR II |
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Competed in Taiwan, 1989. Private.
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wei2go |
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Uses UCT. May be working by mid 2008. Private.
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Weiki III |
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The author is Japanese, but the program has a Chinese name - there may be an error here. Private.
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WinHonte |
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Runs on Windows WinHonte is by the same programmer as Jellyfish, the leading backgammon program. Like Jellyfish, WinHonte uses several different neural nets for different tasks. Some nets are trained from self-play, while others are trained from pro games. It also uses pattern-matching, and localised alpha-beta search. For an interview with its creator, see http://easytogo.altervista.org/numero007/winhonte.html. Read more on its own page. Commercial. Price = USD 29.90. Can be bought from http://www.jellyfish-go.com/orde.
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WinHonte, free trial version |
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see WinHonte Runs on WindowsPlays like the full commercial version for 100 moves, then reverts to play at the lowest of its six levels. Free. Download via here.
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WQ |
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Competed in 1996. Private.
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Wu |
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Competed in 1996. Private.
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Wulu |
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Runs on Windows finished 2nd place in the 1998 Ing Cup. Read more on its own page and on our page. Commercial. Price = USD 70. Can be bought from http://www.wulu.com/sale.htm.
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Wulu (free version) |
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see Wulu Runs on Windows13x13 version of Wulu. Plays slowly. Recommended. Its web site http://www.wulu.com/sale.htm has vanished. Free. Download from here.
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Yogo |
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Played in 2008 ICGA, Beijing Private.
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Young Leaf |
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Runs on Windows Competed in 1997. Private.
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Zen |
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Runs on Windows Uses Monte Carlo methods. Began playing on KGS (as 'Zen19') on March 26th and soon established a 2-dan rating there, running on a four-core AMD Opteron. Zen is similar to partly MoGo, partly Crazy Stone. It has shape patterns that are generated by a minorization-maximization algorithm like Crazy Stone. But they are directly combined with UCT, without progressive widening. Probably the most original part of Zen is in the playout. The author does not think MC simulations must be always fast, so it has a lot of hard-coded Go knowledge. Commercial.
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Zogo |
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Competed in 2008 UEC Cup in Tokyo. Private.
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