Results of the 1993 US Computer Go Championship

                                     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  Wins  Place
1 Stone - Kuo Yuan Kao               X  1T 1  1C 1  1  1    6   1st
2 Go Intellect - Ken Chen            0T X  1  1  1  1  1    5   2nd
3 Prototype - Art McGrath            0  0  X  1T 1  1  1    4   3rd
4 Many Faces of Go - David Fotland   0C 0  0T X  1  1  1    3   4th
5 Poka - Howard Landman              0  0  0  0  X  1  0C   1   5/6/7th
6 Nemesis - Bruce Wilcox             0  0  0  0  0  X  1    1   5/6/7th
7 Petronius - James Gunderson        0  0  0  0  1C 0  X    1   5/6/7th

Stone took 7th place in the world competition in 1988, 5th in Europe in 1989,
10th in the World in 1989, and 3rd in the USA in 1991. It is one of the
stronger programs and is also very stable software. It beat Many Faces
of Go in the first round due to Many Faces crashing when MF was winning
(due to a last minute change I made in the plane on the way to the congress
that I didn't have time to test). It beat Go Intellect on time when Go
Intellect was winning, since the time limits are very strict (125 moves in
one hour). Many Faces lost another won game against Prototype, whcih created
a very complex position, with many small unsettled groups, causing Many Faces
to spend too much time reading. Petronius is a new program this year, and
had one victory over Poka, when it committed suicide, and Poka would not accept
the move as legal. Prototype is only in its second year, and is doing very
well, taking third place.

David Fotland