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Results of all competitions




Attached are the results of all computer go competitions with
long term ranking.  Go4++ made second place :)

Another interesting thing to note is the program Igo Jiman 1.0. This
was its first competition and it finished 11th.  Very respectable in
this group.  It will be one to watch next year.

Wulu may have had some bad luck in this tournament.  In the first 15
test games, Many Faces only won two.  Many Faces wins about 30% against
last year's Handtalk, so perhaps Wulu is stronger than the result
indicates (or maybe it just does particularly well against Many Faces).
Wulu plays more agressively than handtalk, and Many Faces often leaves
thin groups on the board, so Wulu usually kills something in each game.

David

Summary of results of all World Computer Go competitions:

The Ing competition takes place every November, with a prize of 
NT$200,000 (about US$8,000) for first place.  The top program gets to 
play a match against people at a handicap, for prizes from NT$150,000
(about US$6,000) to NT$40,000,000 (about US$1.6 Million).

The Computer Olympiads were world competitions in a variety of computer
games, including Go.

The FOST competition takes place every August in Japan, with a prize
of 1,000,000 Yen (about US$7,000) for first place.

I include all programs that have participated more than once, or that
finished in the top 5 places.  Ordering is by long term relative strength,
with recent results weighted higher.

86 - Ing, Taipei, Taiwan
87 - Ing, Taipei, Taiwan
88 - Ing, Taipei, Taiwan
89 - Ing, Taipei, Taiwan
89o - 1st Computer Olympiad, London, England
90 - Ing, Beijing, China
91 - Ing, Singapore
92 - Ing, Tokyo Japan
93 - Ing, Chendu, China
94 - Ing, Taipei, Taiwan
95F - 1st FOST Cup, Tokyo, Japan
95I - Ing, Seoul, Korea
96F - 2nd FOST Cup, Tokyo, Japan
96I - Ing, Guangzhou, China
97F - 3rd FOST Cup, Nagoya, Japan
97I - Ing, San Francisco, USA
98F - 4th FOST Cup, Tokyo, Japan
                                                     F  I  F  I  F  I  F
                      86 87 88 89o 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 95 96 96 97 97 98  R
Chen ZhiXing    Handtalk                  6  2  1  3  1  1  1  1  1  1  3  1.7
Michael Reiss   Go4++    10                           2  2  2  4  3  2  4  3.1
Naritatsu Yamamoto Silver Igo                                     5  4  1  3.7
Ken Chen        Go Intellect 5  4   3  2  2  1  3  1  4  3  4  2  2  3  8  3.9
David Fotland   MFGO      4  8      7    10  6  4  2  3  4  3  5 11  5  6  5.7
Janusz Kraszek  Star Pol  9  4  3   6  3  5  5  2  4              4  8     5.7
Alfred Knoepfle Modgo           6         8     5  6                 6     6.3
Lei Xiuyu       Wulu                                           8        5  6.3
Kim Ji Il       Hamlet                                           13     2  7.1
Yan Shi-Jin     Jimmy                                 9     6  7 10     7  7.8
Masahiro Tanaka Biwako                                     10     7        8.5
Kao Kuo Yuan    Stone        7  5  10     7     6  5     5     3 12        9.2
Chung Ho Lee    Sason                     9    10  7     7     9           9.7
Tristan Caenave Gogol                                      12     6    13 10.1
Oishi Yasuo     Goro                                  7     5    15    10 10.1
Yong-Goo Park   Fun Go                                            9  7 16 11.1
Mark Boon       Goliath   7  3  2   1  1  1  3                            11.7
Martin Mueller  Explorer        1   4  7 13     8        6  8    14  9 22 12.3
Liu Dong-Yue    Dragon    2  2  8  12  4  3                               12.8
Jee Wonho       Go Master                 9                    6 29    12 13.6
Hiroshi Yamashita Aya                                      16     8    19 14.1
T. Yoshikawa    Dai Honinbo            9 14  8 13    11                   14.4
Bruce Wilcox    Nem.   3  5 11      2  5 11  7                            14.9
Tei Meikou      Young leaf                                       23     9 15.5
N. Sanechika    Igo 1998    10      5  6  4                      20    18 16.2
Lee Chong-Cheol Big Stone                                8 17             16.6
Shinichi Sei    Katsunari                                  13    21    15 16.9
Y. Takahisa     Mutsuki                               8     7    18    31 18.6
Saito Koichi    Igo Meijin                           14    19             19.2
Hiroto Yoshii   Monkey Jump                                      26    14 19.6
Tabuchi Takuo   Takuchan                              6     9    31    28 21.9
Toshikazu Sato  Tokyo '98                          9  5    14    28    32 22.6
Horii Tsuneo    Utoro                                10    18    33    29 25.3
Tetsuya Wakamatsu Twigo32                                  11    30    34 27.1

Du Kwei-Chung          1
Wang Loh-Tsi    Friday    1
K. Hayashi      Codan        1
Chen Kaihu      Peanut    3
Allan Scarf     MG2       6 13  7
Japanese team   GOG                          4

Rating (R) is a weighted average of results, with each year weighted 2/3 of
the year after it.  For years where a program did not participate, results
are interpolated.  A program that has not participated recently is penalized
one rank per major tournament ot two ranks per year from its most recent
result.  Years before a program started to participate are set to the 
average of its results while it was playing.