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GNU go - Plays the game of Go

Recently GNU Go has been developed into a more sophisticated program playing at around the 16 kyu level on the NNGS Go server. The program builds cleanly on many platforms. An ASCII interface and an Emacs mode are also supported.

This summer, for the first time, it participated in international tournament play. In the 21st Century Cup held at the US Go Congress, GNU Go placed 8th in a field of 12. This may not sound impressive but actually we were satisfied with its performance. GNU Go won 3 out of 6 games and two of the games it lost were close. Moreover it scored an upset win over former Ing Champion program Wulu.

In the European Championship GNU Go placed second, winning 5 out of six rounds, and losing only to the undefeated GoAhead.

Obtaining

Web page http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html
Source tarball http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnugo/gnugo-3.2.tar.gz
Version 3.2 (stable) released on 2002-04-25

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo-doc.html

Support contacts

Help List	<gnugo@gnu.org>
Developer List	<gnugo@gnu.org>
Bug List	<gnugo@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Daniel Bump <bump@math.stanford.edu> Gunnar Farneback <gf@isy.liu.se>
Developers	Man Li Daniel Bump <bump@math.stanford.edu> David Denholm <david.denholm@eu.citrix.com> Gunnar Farneback <gf@isy.liu.se> see for complete list

Related information

Source repository	pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gnugo login co gnugo http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs?group_id=105
Interfaces	X Window System, terminal
Source languages	C
Weak prerequisites	Cgoban
Related programs	xshogi, Backgammon, Chess, CGoban

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcassey@gnu.org>

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