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'''David Fotland''',<br/>
an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, [[Go]] player, Go and Chess programmer <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/LTANssDhxw4/Ifc1SPOlSLAJ Re: object oriented chess programming] by [[David Fotland|Dave Fotland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 06, 1998</ref>.
He is author of the Go playing program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=138 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]] <ref>[http://www.computer-go.info/db/oprog.php?a=Many+Faces+of+Go Details of Program: Many Faces of Go] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]</ref>.
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'' <ref>[http://www.smart-games.com/index.html Smart Games]</ref> .

=Photos=
==Beijing 2008==
[[FILE:Go19x19Winners2008.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_katoh/13days/11th_day/slides/DSCF3204.html]]
Go winners (19x19) at the [[13th Computer Olympiad#Go|13th Computer Olympiad]]: [[David Fotland]] (Gold), [[Guillaume Chaslot]]<br/>
and [[Arpad Rimmel]] ([https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=515 MoGo]), [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]] ([https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=531 Leela]), surrounded by [[David Levy]] and [[Xinhe Xu]] <ref>Image clipped from [http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_katoh/13days/11th_day/slides/DSCF3204.html 11th Day Image 5], [http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_katoh/13days/index.html 2008 Gallery] by [[Hideki Kato]]</ref>

==Kanazawa 2010==
[[FILE:Kanazawa2010Go13x13.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=https://get.google.com/albumarchive/117053534374902710729/album/AF1QipORq5svHFhGrtWUFQ4nelT0mQlfNV4rdkS8spmh/AF1QipPkvMJpOKh8hOdIAmhQK368QVkuyochb_BQGkZy]]
[[15th Computer Olympiad#Go13x13|15th Computer Olympiad]]: TD [[Jaap van den Herik]] congrats [[David Fotland]], [[Richard Segal]] between,<br/>and [[Jean-Baptiste Hoock]] right <ref>[https://get.google.com/albumarchive/117053534374902710729/album/AF1QipORq5svHFhGrtWUFQ4nelT0mQlfNV4rdkS8spmh/AF1QipPkvMJpOKh8hOdIAmhQK368QVkuyochb_BQGkZy Image Medalists of 13x13 Go] from [https://get.google.com/albumarchive/117053534374902710729/album/AF1QipORq5svHFhGrtWUFQ4nelT0mQlfNV4rdkS8spmh Album archive - 15th Computer Olympiad Kanazawa] by [[Hideki Kato]]</ref>

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/f/Fotland:David dblp: David Fotland]</ref>
* [[David Fotland]] ('''1993'''). ''[http://www.smart-games.com/knowpap.txt Knowledge representation in the Many Faces of Go]''.
* [[David Fotland]], [[Atsushi Yoshikawa]] ('''1997'''). ''The 3rd Fost-Cup World-Open Computer-Go Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#20_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4]]
* [[David Fotland]] ('''2002'''). ''Static Eye in "The Many Faces of Go"''. [[ICGA Journal#25_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4]]
* [[David Fotland]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11674399_12 Building a World-Champion Arimaa Program]''. [[CG 2004]]
* [[David Fotland]] ('''2004'''). ''Go Intellect wins 19x19 Go tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#27_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3]] » [[9th Computer Olympiad#Go|9th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[David Fotland]] ('''2010'''). ''Erica wins Go 19x19 Tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#33_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3]] » [[15th Computer Olympiad#Go|15th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[David Fotland]] ('''2015'''). ''Computer Arimaa: The Beginning''. [[ICGA Journal#38_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1]]

=Forum Posts=
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/QP5I1JLlgr0/bkCS3M-LgJIJ Evaluation function question] by [[David Fotland|Dave Fotland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], February 07, 1997 » [[Evaluation]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/LTANssDhxw4/Ifc1SPOlSLAJ Re: object oriented chess programming] by [[David Fotland|Dave Fotland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 06, 1998

=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfotland/ David Fotland | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=148 David Fotland's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.smart-games.com/manyfaces.html David Fotland's Many Faces of Go]
* [http://www.smart-games.com/index.html Smart Games]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Fotland%2C+David Fotland, David] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]

=References=
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