This is not an official KGS page.
This page lists all the programs that have registered for KGS Computer Go Tournaments, starting from the test Tournament held on March 6th 2005. They have not necessarily played in one. Those in blue-tinted rows have qualified for a "formal" division.
Name of program as registered on KGS |
Name of program (elsewhere) |
Name of operator as registered on KGS |
Name of programmer | Notes |
agog | Goanna | joelv | Joel Veness & Dmitry Kamenetsky | |
agog2 | ||||
antbot | AntIgo | antminder | Dave Hillis | |
antbot9x9 | ||||
AyaBot (AyaBot2) | Aya | HYamashita | Hiroshi Yamashita | |
AyaMC (AyaMC2) | Monte-Carlo version of Aya | |||
botnoid | botnoid | DonDailey | Don Dailey | |
botnoidx | ||||
break9, break19 | break | breaktest | YangYun | |
coldmilk | coldmilk | Cheng-Wei Chou & Shi-Jim Yen | ||
covayandme | ? | ? | Summer_nong_wa ha | |
CrazyStone, StoneCrazy | Crazy Stone | RemiCoulom | Rémi Coulom | http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CrazyStone/ |
cyVersion2 | cyVersion2 | Chun Yi Chen | ||
CzechBot | MoGo | pasky | Petr Baudiš | Unofficial build |
Dariush | Dariush | fboissac | Frédéric Boissac | |
ricoh51 | Eric Marchand | |||
ricoh51 | Eric Marchand | |||
daftbot | blubb | Blubb Fallo | ||
dbot | dbot | dsmic | Detlef Schmicker | |
DimWitBot | dimwit | alonamaloh | Alvaro Begue & John Tromp | |
dpthought | dtlgo | elife | Cai Qiang | |
DrunkenGnu | GNU Go | Aloril | GNU Go development team | Deliberately suboptimised version of GNU Go |
Dumbbot | Dumbbot | kestrel | John Davies | |
EricaBot | Erica | ajahuang | Shih-Chieh Huang | |
ExBot | Explorer | (Markus Enzenberger) | Martin Müller | |
firstgo | FirstGo | greymatter = EdeGrijs | Edward de Grijs | |
FirstGoBot | ||||
Fomalhaut | Fomalhaut | tmc | Tom Cooper | |
FStoned | Stoned | Fantius | Chris Fant | |
FudoBot | Fudo | gghideki | Kato, Hideki | |
Fuego, fuego9, Fuego04nw | Fuego | ? | Fuego team (Martin Müller, Aja Huang, and others) | |
FuegoAl | Fuego | aloriless | "Aloril" | |
GoComputer | GoComputer | ChristophV | Christoph Vielhauer & Hartwig Hanusch | |
ggmcbot | GGMC Go | gghideki | Kato, Hideki | |
GnuGo2 | GNU Go | Aloril | GNU Go development team | Old version of GNU Go |
gnugo3pt6 | GNU Go | maproom | GNU Go development team | |
GnuGoAl | GNU Go | aloriless | "Aloril" | |
Go81 | Go81 | Tapani | Tapani Raiko | |
GoComputer | GoComputer | ChristophV | Christoph Vielhauer & Hartwig Hanusch | |
GoCoo | GoCoo | kato448 | Yoshie Kato | |
GoFigure | GoFigure | Evand | Evan Daniel | |
GoGNU | GNU Go | hms | GNU Go development team | |
GoKnot | GoKnot-isGo | jacquesbas | Jacques Basaldúa | |
gomorra9 | gomorra | slars | Lars Schäfers | |
gonzoBot | Gonzo | kiwiPete | Peter McKenzie | |
gonzoBot2 | ||||
gopp | Go++ | goppxx | Michael Reiss | would like at least 40m for 19x19 |
GoSharp | Tony Hsu | This is not a bot. | ||
GoTraxx | GoTraxx | ? | Philipp Garcia | |
GoWind | ruhai | Ruhai Zhou | ||
greenpeep | ? | vok | Christopher Rosin | |
HouseBot | HouseBot | jhouse & ujh | Jason House & Urban Hafner | Current stable version of HouseBot |
hb04 | Old version 0.4 of HouseBot. No look ahead, simple 1-ply evaluation. | |||
hb05 | Version 0.5 of HouseBot. Uses global α-β search | |||
HBotSVN | Latest experimental version of HouseBot. | |||
hcBot | hcBot | TPol | Michal Dvořáček | Heavily modified GNU Go, also using MoGo for middle game |
IdiotBot | Aloril | Dumbed-down version of GNU Go | Drop if this makes the numbers even | |
indigoBot | Indigo | papateux | Bruno Bouzy | |
jiango | jiango | ? | Peigang zhang | |
Kago, KagoBot9, KagoBot13 | Kago | karlwang | Wang Rizhong | |
kiaibot | Kiai | matheww | Matthew Woodcraft | |
kiseki | kiseki | mamo | Yasuo Hirooka | |
kurtbot | kurt | lefant | Fabian Linzberger | |
LeelaBot | Leela | gcp | Gian-Carlo Pascutto | Once called Progo, but renamed to avoid confusion with Rehm's Progo |
LeGoBot, LibegoBot | Lew | Łukasz Lew | ||
LibertyBot | GNU Go | Aloril | GNU Go development team; Daniel Bump | An ancient fork of GNU Go 1.2, with many changes, and with improvements to its KGS behaviour. |
Mango, Mango2 | Mango | LapinBlanc | Guillaume Chaslot | |
unimaas | Jahn-Takeshi Saito | |||
ManyFaces1 ManyFaces2 | Many Faces of Go | fotland | David Fotland | |
MCark | MC_ark | Nobuo Araki | ||
MechaGoZil | MechaGoZilla | fantius | Chris Fant | A cluster running copies of MoGo |
MoGoBot | MoGo | jbh17 | Yizao Wang, Sylvain Gelly, Jean-Baptiste Hoock, Rémi Munos & Olivier Teytaud | contributors: Rémi Munos, Pierre-Arnaud Coquelin, Yizao Wang, Olivier Teytaud |
MoGoBot19 | MoGo | Yizao & Casillux | Yizao Wang & Sylvain Gelly | As above. May use a local rather than global search |
MoGoBot1 | MoGoTW | Olivier Teytaud and others | This is not MoGo, but does have common code with it. | |
MonteGNU | GNU Go + MC code | gunnar | GNU Go development team | |
MyGoFriend | MyGoFriend | GoCoder gocrack | Frank Karger Michael Babar | |
NeuroGo | NeuroGo | Markus Enzenberger | ||
Neuron, Neu, NeuronC | Neuron | mels | Alexander Melnikov | |
nio | Nio | trogdor | Christian Nilsson | |
oakfoam | Oakfoam | liquido (krokro) | Francois van Niekerk | |
Olympus | Olympus | Joshua Shriver | ||
OlympusJr | ||||
oOhikaruO2 | oOhikaruO2 | ? | Laurence Spinosa | |
Orego | Orego | mundungus | Peter Drake & others | |
Orego2 | ||||
pagebot, scottbot | ? | peterchris | Peter Christopher | |
Pachi | Pachi | pasky | Petr Baudiš | |
PNUGo | GNU Go | pasky | Petr Baudiš | Unofficial build |
Progo | Progo/Ka | gcp | Gian-Carlo Pascutto | Now renamed to Leela (LeelaBot) to avoid confusion with Rehm's Progo |
PueGo | Fuego | pasky | Petr Baudiš | Unofficial build |
Project | Project | kestrel | John Davies | Almost the same code as Dumbbot |
PyBot | Pybot | erislover | Deren Dohoda | uses engine from SimpleGo |
aloril | 'Aloril' | |||
QYZ | Quasiwise | jacquesQYZ | Jacques Basaldúa | |
rango | Rango | ibd | Isaaac Deutsch | |
Rover01 | Roverandom | juhop | Juho Pennanen | |
Rover13 | ||||
scottbot | a build of pagebot | |||
sf9x9bot | Stone Fighter | sf9x9 | Fuming Wang | |
SimonBot | SimonBot | ns02 | Yoshimasa Ito | |
SimpleBot | SimpleGo | Aloril | ||
StoneLord, LordStone | StoneLord | ? | John Nixon | |
slugGo, SlugGo13, SlugGo9 | Slug Go | cmcwerner | David G Doshay and others; GNU Go development team | would like 28m for 9x9, 58m for 19x19 |
smartbot | SmartBot | shad0wjack | Dmitry Platonov | A GNU Go derivative, not related to Anders Kierulf's SmartGo |
st9x9bot | Stone Fighter | st9x9 | Fuming Wang | |
StoneGrid | StoneGrid | stg | John Fan | |
StoneCrazy | a build of CrazyStone | |||
stv | Steenvreter | evdw | Erik van der Werf | |
thcGo, rcnn | thcGo | Alan Blair | ||
tlsBot | Tls | Bazik | Michał Bażyński | |
Broege | Karol Golab | |||
tlsBotExp1 | Bazik | Michał Bażyński | ||
Broege | Karol Golab | |||
Toaster | Toaster | Torrent | Joakim Mjärdner | |
ToBog | Qubic | Stephen Jay Guy | ||
twinbot | twinbot | al2 | GNU Go development team; Alain Baeckeroot | GNU Go 3.7 derivative |
valkyria | valkyria | zapp | Magnus Persson | |
viking4, viking5 | Viking | |||
Wbot | engine | Woldsom | Raymond Wold | |
wollbot | GNU Go 3.7 | woll997 | GNU Go development team | GNU Go 3.7 |
WeakBot50k | Aloril | |||
wei2go | Wei 2 Go | sestir | Basti Weidemyr | |
Zen19 | Zen | ZenAuthor | 'Yamato' | |
Zengg9 | Zengg | gghideki | 'Yamato' and Hideki Kato | |
zogoFBot, zogoOBot | NineHeadBird | zong2008 | Zong MengJun |
This page, and particularly the Notes, are mainly for my own use.