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David Fotland, an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, Go player, Go and Chess programmer. He is author of the Go playing program Many Faces of Go, which is under development since 1981. The engine combines a traditional knowledge-based algorithm with a modern Monte-Carlo Tree Search. Many Faces of Go, as well as other strategy game programs, like the Arimaa bot Bomb, puzzle- and Sudoku solver, are market by Fotland's own computer game software development and publishing company Smart Games.

=Photos=

Beijing 2008
Go winners (19x19) at the 13th Computer Olympiad: David Fotland (Gold), Guillaume Chaslot and Arpad Rimmel (MoGo), Gian-Carlo Pascutto (Leela), surrounded by David Levy and Xinhe Xu

Kanazawa 2010
15th Computer Olympiad: TD Jaap van den Herik congrats David Fotland, Richard Segal between, and Jean-Baptiste Hoock right

=Selected Publications=
 * David Fotland (1993). Knowledge representation in the Many Faces of Go.
 * David Fotland, Atsushi Yoshikawa (1997). The 3rd Fost-Cup World-Open Computer-Go Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4
 * David Fotland (2002). Static Eye in "The Many Faces of Go". ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4
 * David Fotland (2004). Building a World-Champion Arimaa Program. CG 2004
 * David Fotland (2004). Go Intellect wins 19x19 Go tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 » 9th Computer Olympiad
 * David Fotland (2010). Erica wins Go 19x19 Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3 » 15th Computer Olympiad
 * David Fotland (2015). Computer Arimaa: The Beginning. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1

=Forum Posts=
 * Evaluation function question by Dave Fotland, rgcc, February 07, 1997 » Evaluation
 * Re: object oriented chess programming by Dave Fotland, rgcc, January 06, 1998

=External Links=
 * David Fotland | LinkedIn
 * David Fotland's ICGA Tournaments
 * David Fotland's Many Faces of Go
 * Smart Games
 * Fotland, David from computer-go.info

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