The First European Open Computer Go Championship 1987
took place in GRENOBLE (France), during the European Go Congress.
The 9x9 competition had 7 participants, and the results are the following
1st GO 3.0 (Michael Reiss, GB)
GOLIATH I (Robert Rehm, NL)
GOLIATH II (Mark Boon, NL)
MICROGO 2 (Allan Scarff, GB)
STAR OF POLAND (Janusz Kraszek, POL)
all with 4 points.
6th NEMESIS (Bruce Wilcox, USA) 1 point
7th AMIGO (Grenoble , F) 0 point.
These results are not significant, as the komi of 6.5 points made it too
difficult for Black to win : programs just try to share the go-board equally
and White wins easily.
The competition on 19x19 grid was more interesting :
1st STAR OF POLAND with 6 points
2nd MICROGO 2 with 5 points
3rd GOLIATH II with 4 points
4th GOLIATH I with 3 points
5th NEMESIS with 2 points
6th SMAKKY (F. Jacques, CH) with 1 point
7th AMIGO with 0 point
Some other programs had registered in advance, but they were not ready
to play, due to some resilient bugs.
All programs run on IBM PC, but GOLIATH II on ATARI 1040 and AMIGO on MacIntosh.
The supremacy of STAR OF POLAND is not really so clear, because it won
many lost games as its opponent was in time trouble. All these programs will
be in Taipei next November, and this will have "un gout de revanche".
For information, registered games (photocopies available), and so on,
contact me by e-mail or by post-mail :
Philippe Bizard
App 7226
150 galerie de l'Arlequin
38100 GRENOBLE
FRANCE
Please note that AMIGO was just a Go-board (which runs correctly) and
a pseudo-random move generator. I'll begin to work on it after this Congress
I organized, and hope to get a better (much better, of course !!) result next year in HAMBURG (European
GO Congress 1988, in Germany).
After the end of this championship, Star of Poland played a game against
the French youngest category champion (Christophe Roehri, 9 kyu)
and lost by resignation.
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Laissez-moi dans mon ignorance...