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The game of Go is also known in Japanese as igo, in Chinese as wei qi or wei chi, in Korean as baduk.
Go is the last of the classical board games in which computers are still relatively weak. Despite a lot of effort, the current top programs can still be beaten easily by humans of intermediate level. The situation looks much better for more specialized topics, such as solving Life and Death problems in enclosed area, where programs have reached a strong level.
- www.well.com/user/mmcadams/gointro.html Mindy McAdams Introduction to the game of Go.
- gobase.org Jan van der Steen. A huge website with all kinds of Go information.
Many different rule sets for Go exist, but the differences are very small in practice. The outcome of a game is only very rarely affected by the specific type of rules that are in place. Some rules links:
- www.cwi.nl/~tromp/go.html John Tromp logical go rules
- home.snafu.de/jasiek/rules.html Robert Jasiek huge collection of material about Go rules.
- gobase.org has lots of games played by professional players.
- www.goban.demon.co.uk/go/main.html#a_bestiary Harry Fearnley's Main Go (Baduk, WeiQi/Wei-Ch'i, Igo) Page has a large amount of interesting and strange Go problems.
homepage1.nifty.com/Ike/katsunari/paper/4x4e.txt. In 2000, Sei and Kawashima published a solution for the 4x4 board under
- www.cs.unimaas.nl/~vanderwerf/5x5/5x5solved.html In Oct 2002, Erik van der Werf solved the 5x5 board for several different rule sets and all possible opening moves.
- lie.math.brocku.ca/GoTools/applet.html GoTools, a very strong Life and Death solver by Thomas Wolf www.brocku.ca/mathematics/people/wolf/
- www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/cgo/semeai.html Some semeai problems solved by my program Explorer.
- 8th Computer Olympiad. November 23 - 27, 2003, Graz, Austria www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2003/
- 21st Century Cup. Planned for second half of 2003, time and place not yet determined.
- New big Japanese Tournament August 2 - 3, 2003 Gifu, Japan Mentioned on www.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/~iida/icga/events.html, no details.
- A regular event at each European Go Congress is the European Computer Go championship. In 2003 it will be held in St.
Petersburg, Russia. www.egc2003.spb.ru/pages/program.htm
July 19 - August 2, 2003 (Computer Go will probably be held over one or two days during this period)
- www.cgl.ucsf.edu/go/ladder.html The Computer Go Ladder, an ongoing informal competition.
- Go applet for replaying games on the site
- Add newer game records
- Add more links to programmers
- Add more historical information
- The unique challenges of programming Go compared to other games
- Add information about endgames
- Machine learning in computer Go
- An exhaustive list at gobase.org
- Computer Go Forum
CGF is a large group based in Japan.
- The Intelligent Go Foundation, a sponsor of computer Go events, provides information about their activities and about Computer Go in general: a detailed overview of computer Go, and an online computer Go database.
www.cs.uoregon.edu/~richard/computer-go/index.html mailing list home page, does not work anymore ???
- hamelin-zm.nom.fr/go-computer/ archive of mailing list
All these servers are mainly for human players. However, several programs, such as GnuGo, Many Faces of Go and Go 4++ are playing or have played on some of the servers.
- www.wulu.com Chen Zhixing, Handtalk and its successor Goemate
- www.reiss.demon.co.uk/webgo/compgo.htm Michael
- The Many Faces of Go by David Fotland
- Haruka by Ryuichi Kawa
- Wulu, with main programmer Lei Xiuyu
- KCC, by Jong Song Hwa, from North Korea
- FunGo, by Yong Goo Park, from South Korea
- Ken Chen, Go Intellect
- GoAhead by Peter Woitke (page in
- GNU Go a team project with many contributors
- Jimmy Lu's GoStar
- plaza15.mbn.or.jp/~yss/ Aya by Hiroshi Yamashita
- Katsunari by Shinichi Sei and Toshiaki
- Jimmy by Yan Shi-jim
- Goro by Yasuo Oishi
- Neuro Go by Markus Enzenberger
- Smart Go by Anders Kierulf
- Golois by Tristan Cazenave
- Indigo by Bruno Bouzy
- Explorer by Martin Müller
- Elwyn Berlekamp Mathematical Go, combinatorial game
theory, ko, thermography.
- Ken Chen Go Intellect, combinatorial game
- Tristan Cazenave Abstract Proof Search, Generalized
Threats Search, automatic pattern generation, metaprograms.
- Markus Enzenberger Neural networks for Go, Online Computer Go
- Bill Fraser (no web page?) Mathematical Go, combinatorial game theory, ko, thermography, GoSolver, bruteforce.
- Martin Müller Combinatorial game algorithms, endgames,
semeai, safety of territory
- Bill Spight Mathematical Go, combinatorial game theory, ko,
- Thomas Wolf Life and Death solver
- Artificial Intelligence
- Information Sciences
- ICGA Journal ISSN 1389-6911. www.icga.org,
Markus Enzenberger's Online Computer Go Bibliography
www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/cgo/survey/references.html A list of references from my Computer Go survey paper in Artificial
- www.daogo.org Computer Go journal, issues 1-16 (1986-91), now online!
Dariush, a program that plays Go. The free demonstration version plays
- lie.math.brocku.ca/GoTools/ GoTools, a strong life and death solving program
- gobase.org/information/computers/ Computer Go on Jan
van der Steen's gobase.org site
- www.reiss.demon.co.uk/webgo/compgo.htm Michael Reiss Computer Go page, lots of information.
- Large collection of computer Go game records up to circa 1997 www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/cgo/games.html
- Archive of all games played on The Computer Go Ladder www.cgl.ucsf.edu/go/ladder.html
- www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/cgo/survey/CGGoresults.html Tournament results summary