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'''Anders Kierulf''',<br/>
a Swiss computer scientist, Ph.D. from [[ETH Zurich]] <ref>[[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1990'''). ''Smart Game Board: a Workbench for Game-Playing Programs, with Go and Othello as Case Studies''. Ph.D. thesis, [[ETH Zurich]], advisor: [[Jürg Nievergelt]]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings 3-dan Go player], and since 1999 professional [[Go]] programmer. Anders is co-author of the veteran program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=144 Explorer], which was developed along with [[Martin Müller]] and [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], playing [[Computer Olympiad|Computer Olympiads]] from 1989 until 2005, two times winning Gold medals. His commercial program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=140 SmartGo] for [[Windows]] as well for [[Apple]] [[iPhone]] and [[iPad]] mobile devices is market by his own company ''Smart Go, Inc.'' <ref>[http://www.smartgo.com/about.html SmartGo - About]</ref>, located in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah Utah].
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=Smart Game Board=
The '''Smart Game Board''', topic of Kierulf's Ph.D. thesis, provides a [[GUI]] for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_prototyping rapid prototyping] of game programs, and has been used for [[Go]], [[Gomoku|Go-Moku]], [[Othello]], and [[Chess]], among others <ref>[[James Gillogly]] ('''1989'''). ''New Directions in Game-Tree Search - First Workshop Session''. [[ICGA Journal#12_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]]</ref>. Along with ''Go Explorer'', the Smart Game Board was introduced by [[Jürg Nievergelt]] at the [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|New Directions in Game-Tree Search]] workshop during the [[WCCC 1989]] <ref>[[Anders Kierulf]], [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1989'''). ''Smart Game Board and Go Explorer: A Case Study in Software and Knowledge Engineering''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]</ref>, further elaboared by [[Martin Müller]] at the [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 2]] workshop of the [[2nd Computer Olympiad]] in 1990 <ref>[[Martin Müller]] ('''1991'''). ''The Smart Game Board as a Tool for Game Programmers''. [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 2]]</ref> <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/cgo/sgb.html Smart Game Board]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
==1985 ...==
* [[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1985'''). ''Smart Go Board: Algorithms for the Tactical Calculator''. Diploma thesis (unpublished), [[ETH Zurich]].
* [[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1989'''). ''New Concepts in Computer Othello: Corner Value, Edge Advoidance, Access, and Parity''. [[1st Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 1]]
* [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1989'''). ''Swiss Explorer blunders its way into winning the first computer Go Olympiad''. [[1st Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 1]]
* [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1989'''). ''Smart Game Board and Go Explorer: A Case Study in Software and Knowledge Engineering''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1990'''). ''Smart Game Board: a Workbench for Game-Playing Programs, with Go and Othello as Case Studies''. Ph.D. thesis, [[ETH Zurich]], advisor: [[Jürg Nievergelt]]
* [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Martin Müller]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1990'''). ''The Design and Evolution of Go Explorer''. [[Computers, Chess, and Cognition]]
* [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Ralph Gasser]], Peter M. Geiser, [[Martin Müller]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]], [[Christoph Wirth]] ('''1991'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-76698-5_16 Every Interactive System Evolves into Hyperspace: The Case of the Smart Game Board]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/him/him1991.html Hypertext/Hypermedia]
=External Links=
* [http://www.smartgo.com/anders.html SmartGo - Anders Kierulf]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=150 Anders Kierulf's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Kierulf%2C+Anders Kierulf, Anders] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
* [http://www.othello.dk/book/index.php/Anders_Kierulf Anders Kierulf - The Othello Wiki Book Project]
=References=
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[[FILE:Anders Kierulf.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.smartgo.com/anders.html| Anders Kierulf <ref>[http://www.smartgo.com/anders.html SmartGo - Anders Kierulf]</ref> ]]
'''Anders Kierulf''',<br/>
a Swiss computer scientist, Ph.D. from [[ETH Zurich]] <ref>[[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1990'''). ''Smart Game Board: a Workbench for Game-Playing Programs, with Go and Othello as Case Studies''. Ph.D. thesis, [[ETH Zurich]], advisor: [[Jürg Nievergelt]]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings 3-dan Go player], and since 1999 professional [[Go]] programmer. Anders is co-author of the veteran program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=144 Explorer], which was developed along with [[Martin Müller]] and [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], playing [[Computer Olympiad|Computer Olympiads]] from 1989 until 2005, two times winning Gold medals. His commercial program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=140 SmartGo] for [[Windows]] as well for [[Apple]] [[iPhone]] and [[iPad]] mobile devices is market by his own company ''Smart Go, Inc.'' <ref>[http://www.smartgo.com/about.html SmartGo - About]</ref>, located in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah Utah].
<span id="SmartGameBoard"></span>
=Smart Game Board=
The '''Smart Game Board''', topic of Kierulf's Ph.D. thesis, provides a [[GUI]] for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_prototyping rapid prototyping] of game programs, and has been used for [[Go]], [[Gomoku|Go-Moku]], [[Othello]], and [[Chess]], among others <ref>[[James Gillogly]] ('''1989'''). ''New Directions in Game-Tree Search - First Workshop Session''. [[ICGA Journal#12_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]]</ref>. Along with ''Go Explorer'', the Smart Game Board was introduced by [[Jürg Nievergelt]] at the [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|New Directions in Game-Tree Search]] workshop during the [[WCCC 1989]] <ref>[[Anders Kierulf]], [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1989'''). ''Smart Game Board and Go Explorer: A Case Study in Software and Knowledge Engineering''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]</ref>, further elaboared by [[Martin Müller]] at the [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 2]] workshop of the [[2nd Computer Olympiad]] in 1990 <ref>[[Martin Müller]] ('''1991'''). ''The Smart Game Board as a Tool for Game Programmers''. [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 2]]</ref> <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/cgo/sgb.html Smart Game Board]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
==1985 ...==
* [[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1985'''). ''Smart Go Board: Algorithms for the Tactical Calculator''. Diploma thesis (unpublished), [[ETH Zurich]].
* [[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1989'''). ''New Concepts in Computer Othello: Corner Value, Edge Advoidance, Access, and Parity''. [[1st Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 1]]
* [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1989'''). ''Swiss Explorer blunders its way into winning the first computer Go Olympiad''. [[1st Computer Olympiad#Workshop|Heuristic Programming in AI 1]]
* [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1989'''). ''Smart Game Board and Go Explorer: A Case Study in Software and Knowledge Engineering''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Anders Kierulf]] ('''1990'''). ''Smart Game Board: a Workbench for Game-Playing Programs, with Go and Othello as Case Studies''. Ph.D. thesis, [[ETH Zurich]], advisor: [[Jürg Nievergelt]]
* [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Martin Müller]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1990'''). ''The Design and Evolution of Go Explorer''. [[Computers, Chess, and Cognition]]
* [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Ralph Gasser]], Peter M. Geiser, [[Martin Müller]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]], [[Christoph Wirth]] ('''1991'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-76698-5_16 Every Interactive System Evolves into Hyperspace: The Case of the Smart Game Board]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/him/him1991.html Hypertext/Hypermedia]
=External Links=
* [http://www.smartgo.com/anders.html SmartGo - Anders Kierulf]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=150 Anders Kierulf's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Kierulf%2C+Anders Kierulf, Anders] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
* [http://www.othello.dk/book/index.php/Anders_Kierulf Anders Kierulf - The Othello Wiki Book Project]
=References=
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