David Fotland
David Fotland,
an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, Go player, Go, Chess and Arimaa programmer [2].
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 [3].
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 [4] .
Contents
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 [5]
Kanazawa 2010
15th Computer Olympiad: TD Jaap van den Herik congrats David Fotland, Richard Segal between,
and Jean-Baptiste Hoock right [6]
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 » C++
- Deep Blue chip talk by David Fotland, CCC, August 19, 1998 » Deep Blue
- Underpromoting other than to a knight by David Fotland, CCC, January 29, 1998 » Minor Promotion
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
References
- ↑ David Fotland | LinkedIn
- ↑ Re: object oriented chess programming by Dave Fotland, rgcc, January 06, 1998
- ↑ Details of Program: Many Faces of Go from computer-go.info
- ↑ Smart Games
- ↑ Image clipped from 11th Day Image 5, 2008 Gallery by Hideki Kato
- ↑ Image Medalists of 13x13 Go from Album archive - 15th Computer Olympiad Kanazawa by Hideki Kato
- ↑ dblp: David Fotland