gmail.com. Please use this mail adress for comunication with us.
The winner of Gomocup 2012 is Yixin written by Kai Sun from China, congratulation!!! Please see results and download.
We got a sponzor, the main sponsor of Gomocup is game called GNO, hexa-dimensional gomoku (five in row).
The game GNO is the price for the winner of Gomocup.
Gomocup 2011 take place on April 16th-18th, deadline for sending AI is on April 12th 24:00 Central European Time (CET). Time limit per move/game is 30s/180s for basic groups 300s/1000s for final group and 5s/120s for fastgame. Memory limit is 350MB for all groups. MD5 file of opening file is 5b5165a4fd1233cc598d2680e340c040.
New version of Piskvork manager! Sound notification, new command line arguments and some bugs have been fixed, go to download.
The second tournament AI vs. Human took place on 21st June 2011 in Prague in Shangri-la tee shop. The winners of Gomocup 2011 has been confronted against Humans, against the best Czech gomoku players. This time the result AI:Humans was 5:3. More in czech language is here.
The winner of Gomocup 2011 is Tito written by Andrej Tokarjev, congratulation!!! Please see results and download.
The MD5 checksum of openings is 9ad37dab4ff33b331a37a1e3b25e223b. Hardware is the same as last year, please see results.
Gomocup 2011 take place on April 4th-7th, deadline for sending AI is on March 31th 24:00 Central European Time (CET). Time limit per move/game is 30s/180s for basic groups 300s/1000s for final group and 5s/120s for fastgame. Memory limit is 350MB for all groups. MD5 file of openings will be published soon.
The winner of Gomocup 2010 is Goro. Tito is the second and Onix is th third. You can download new gomoku engines or see tournament results.
Gomocup 2010 take place on April 24th-25th, the deadline for sending AI is on April 23rd 24:00 Central European Time (CET). Openings are set up, MD5 of file is 1dd02cfe215ca7ac15310250dca4214b (for your backward check after tournament). There is change in rule of determining the winner. From now it correspond with piskvork implementation, it means points/ratio/match between/time per move.
Dear visitors, Gomocup 2010 is comming. Rules for this tournament are following: Time limit per move/game is 30s/180s for basic groups 300s/1000s for final group and 5s/120s for fastgame. memory limit is 350MB for all groups. MD5 file of openings will be published soon.
Piskvork 8.4 is available. There is better support form multicores CPUs and possibility to export psq files continously.
The results of Gomocup 2009 are available. The new AI are also available in download.
There are 11 new gomoku programs with source code and 5 shareware and freeware gomoku programs for PDA ( symbian, windows mobile). And one document about gomoku programming tactics.
Gomocup 2009 will take place on the 4th April and the deadline for sending new brains is the 2nd April 11AM (UTC time).
For 2009 tournament, we will keep the same time limits. The time limits in the qualification groups will be 30 seconds for one turn and 180 seconds for a match. In the finals, the limits will be 300 seconds for the turn and 1200 seconds for a match. The time limits for fastgame are 5s per move and 120s per match. The memory limit is 350 MB.
The prize for the winner of Gomocup 2009 will be 50 euro. We have already chosen 3 openings for the 2009 tournament. So far, we publish the MD5 checksum of the file. The openings will be published after the tournament. More information here.
In downloads section, there is an improved version of Hewer which can also support any size of board and can play with exactly five wins rule. May timeout when low time limits are used.
The 9th Gomocup tournament is finished and the official results are known. The winner is the new version of Tito by Andrej Tokarjev from Hungary. Second and third place were taken by Onix and Garden Gomoku. The quick tournament was also won by Tito. More information about the tournament results can be found on the tournaments page. There were three completely new brains and seven new versions of brains. One of the new brains - Hector for gomoku is a private program and will not be published. The others are available for download.
Due to technical problems with Webzdarma.cz, we decided to change the tournament email address to: gomocupgmail.com. Please use this mail adress for comunication with us.
You can also download a new version of Piskvork manager. The main difference is that opening patterns are not randomly moved but always placed the same way.
Gomocup 2008 will take place on the 19th April in Prague (Czech republic). The deadline for new brains has already passed. There will be 2 completely new brains in the tournament - Hector and FiveInRow. There will be also new versions of Hewer, Swine, Onix, Kanec and HGarden. We now publish the openings together with the private key for possible check with the previously published cyphered version of the openings. The partial results of the tournament being played will be shown online at http://www.gomocup.wz.cz/online. The rules are the same as in 2007. There is no financial prize for the winner this year.
Gomocup 2008 will take place on the 19th April. The deadline for sending new brains is the 18th April (inclusive). The place (in Czech republic) and the hardware configuration is to be specified yet. The rules are the same as in 2007. There is no financial prize for the winner this year.
In order to assure maximum fairness of the Gomocup 2008 tournament, we have chosen the opening in advance already in September. As we don't want to let the competitors adapt their programs for those openings, we publish the openings in encrypted form<\a>. The private key will be published after we stop to accept new brains so that everyone can verify that we use the preselected openings. For more about the encryption, see http://www.gnupg.org.
You can download a new java gomoku manager by F. Wawrzak.
The 8th tournament took place yesterday. The winner is the new version of Tito by Andrej Tokarjev from Hungary and the author wins the 50 euros prize! The second place was taken by HGarden by David Han from China and the third by new Swine by Jiri Fontan. The fast tournament was also won by Tito and the tiros tournament's winner is Onix by Mr Virag and Mr Wagner. For more information, look here.
You can download new brains Pecuchet, Nabamoku, Jude, and Onix and new versions of Goro, Tito and Swine.
You can download version 4.0.2 of R. Vancura's G_Motor.
The time limits in the qualification groups will be 30 seconds for one turn and 180 seconds for a match. In the finals, the limits will be 300 seconds for the turn and 1200 seconds for a match or higher. The memory limit is 350 MB. You'll be able to watch the progress of the tournament at these web pages.
Attention! The 8th Gomocup tournament takes place the 27th April 2007 at the University of Plzen in Czech Republic at 7am GMT. This is the first time that there is going to be a prize for the winner - 50 euros! There are no major changes in the tournament rules. We are going to use 3 openings that will be chosen randomly out of those 5 balanced openings. The dealine for sending your programs is 26th April 23:00 GMT. If you would like to attend the tournament, send us an email.
You can download a new version of R. Vancura's G_Motor.
At the downloads page you can find my program Genemix for genetic optimisation, that can be used together with batch running option of P. Lastovicka's manager to improve your artificial intelligence. If you use it, let me please know if it was helpful.
The brains proved to be approximately same strenght as the humans in the yesterday's match against some of the best czech players of www.piskvorky.net. However, the best brain Goro was defeated by Pavel 'Kedlub' Laube. For more information, consult the tournaments page. In the downloads, you'll find the up-to-date versions of HGarden and Goro that participated.
We plan a match of the three best Czech players from piskvorky.net with three best tournament programs for the 11th November in Prague. The best player will match the best program, the second best player will match the second best program and for the third likewise. There will be two games for each match with openings chosen at random from a set proposed by experts. Each player has 30 minutes for each game. If you want to come, contact me by email.
The winner of Gomocup 2006 is Goro followed by Tito and HGarden. Next is Pela, Swine, Kanec, Bestmove, Noesis and Qmentat6. The winner of the quick tournament is Pela again. You can find the report here. A new brain Tito by Andrej Tokarjev, new versions of Kanec, G_motor, HGarden, Kanec and Pela and non-expired Goro are now availlable for download.
Gomocup 2006:
Starting time:
Friday, 28 April 2006, 07:00 a.m. GMT
Place:
University of West Bohemia
Centre of Informatization and Computational Technics
public computer laboratory UI303
Univerzitni 8, 301 00Plzen
49°43'29'N 13°21'07'E, http://civ.zcu.cz/Images/max21.gif
Rules:
the same rules as rules of Gomocup 2005 with these differences:
- there will be 3 openings in one game (6 mathes together)
- limits 30 s / move and 3 minutes / match in basic group
- limits 2 minuts / move and 5 minutes / match in final group (if the basic group will be finished early, there will be more time per match in final group)
- openings will be not opened to public before tournament and I will try to be choosen by independent expert
- memory limit 350MB
Computer Hardware:
10 computers Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz HT with 1GB RAM (because of hyperthreading these computers have two processors, so multithreading program is the advantage)
Online adress: (You can watch a direct transmission of the tournament there)
ftp://ui303p05-lps.civ.zcu.cz:2121/gomocup.html
The new version of Petr Lastovicka's manager can be executed in a batch, which may be used for automatic testing of a brain, watch the help of the program. It also implements a continuous game which doesn't end when a player scores. To permit this, we updated the syntax of the BOARD and INFO rule commands in the and the board format in the .
Brief unofficial results of The Hungarian Computer "Gomoku" Open Tournament:
1. Tyson
2. OniX
3. Goro
4. Hector for Gomoku
There was 8 programs in total.
The Hungarian Computer "Gomoku" Open Tournament has now a web page, where you can find the invitation for the 2nd hungarian tournament, which will take place 3rd December 2005 and uses the same protocol as Gomocup.
You can download gomoku program Piky by J. Babak.
In the documentation section, there is also a report from the first Hungarian Computer Gomoku tournament, which was organized by J. Wagner and I. Virag at 6th June 2005. There were three brains in the tournament, they also tried to match Goro and Swine, but there were some problems with compatibility. Nowadays in October, there should be second tournament in Hungary.
We added an optional command TAKEBACK, which can be used to undo a move to . There are also some changes in the . The brain may use the file msg.dat to send text messages to manager and info.dat to gain some more parameter settings now. Turn limit equal to zero now means that the brain should play as fast as possibble (eg count only a static evaluation and stop searching possibble moves).
There are some changes in the new protocol. BOARD is now mandatory, because we will use more balanced openings in the next tournament. New optional commands were added also.
There was Fishparty gomoku tournament in the city of Hradec Kralove, on the same day as the Gomocup 2005. The winner Ondrej Nykl (Ondik) matched the best three of our brains. He won over Pela and Swine. The game with Goro was a draw. Results are here:
| X. Turnaj | Goro | Ondik | Swine | PeLa | RANK | __POINTS__ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goro | - | 5:5 | 7:3 | 7:3 | 1-2 | 7(19:11) |
| Ondik | 5:5 | - | 8:2 | 6:4 | 1-2 | 7(19:11) |
| Swine | 3:7 | 2:8 | - | 6:4 | 3 | 3(11:19) |
| PeLa | 3:7 | 4:6 | 4:6 | - | 4 | 1(11:19) |
Because I won't be present for the next tournament and because of my present occupation, I'm passing the organization to Tomas Kubes, who now owns the mailbox of the tournament - gomocupgmail.com. I'm still going to work on the web pages.
In the downloads, there's a link to new version of P. Lastovicka's manager including new bases of brain in Delphi and C++.
Winner of the sixth tournament, that took place on 16th April in Prague, is program Goro by Viktor Barykin from Russia. The second is Swine by Jiri Fontan and the third is Pela by Petr Lastovicka. 18 programs fought in three qualification groups, 9 of them made it to the finals, where they matched each other. The qualification groups were played home by three different people, others could watch it online. The finals were public and were played in the computer lab of Prague University. There was also an unofficial quick tournament, that was won by Pela. You can find more information here.
You can download new brains of the 2005 tournament - Kanec, Swine, Beta and new versions of Pela, G_motor and QMentat. There are also new versions of both windows managers with lots of improvements (e.g. ftp upload of tournament process, corrections of mistakes, ).
You can download new version of Goro brain, which placed second last year and latest version of HGarden. There is also reconstructed base of brain with comments in English and P. Lastovicka's manager with many improvements (network tournament, ...).
New version of Pbrain-HGarden available in downloads.
The date of 6th tournament was set to 16th April 2005, but the deadline for new brains is 9th April, because qualification groups will be played in advance. There are changes of tournament rules and system.
In download there's new brain HGarden, Gomotur implementing INFO max_memory, INFO timeout_match and MESSAGE and Petr Lastovicka's manager, which works with replays now.
There's a link to new version of P. Lastovicka's manager in the downloads.
You can download new Gomotur manager which now both supports pbrains and shows replays.
You can download Petr Lastovicka's manager, which supports both protocols and includes author's brain program and source code. Manager can use either Czech or English language!
You can download updated Gomotur, corrected base of pbrain, new brain by R. Vancura, new articles and two new independent programs.
You can download new manager for human matches against new pbrains by L. Hlavacek.
I put the results of unofficial tounament on the web. The tournament was played, because the manager didn't work correctly in the official one and the pbrains may have been handicapped. There was no change in results on the first three positions.
You can download old Gomotur, which is necessary for viewing replays, because replays don't work in the new one.
You can download a new version of Gomotur, which supports the new protocol and human players.
You can download Visual Hewer by Tom Kubes - a special tool for analysing the game.
The tournament took place yesterday. The winner is Svine 2 followed by Goro and Bestmove. See the tournament results! We had several problems with bugs in the manager again. You can download new tournament versions of QMentat, Hewer2, Bestmove, Svine2, Goro a Pisq.
We're dealing with flushing the outputs in the new protocol. In the present, all brains with new protocol must flush all output to prevent the data from being bufferred.
You can download two new brains from USA and also Random and Dolores brain for the new protocol with source codes.
The Tenzor web manager stopped to work while FTP hasn't worked for a long time, so i have no possibility to upload there anything. The admins do not respond to any mail, so I decided to move the pages to http://gomocup.wz.cz. The email adress is changed to gomocupgomocup.wz.cz. Unfortunately, I'm not able to put any information about the transfer at Tenzor. I hope it won't cause a chaos before the upcoming tournament.
The alternative downloads source doesn't work anymore.
Tournament 2004 will take place in PC lab of Mathematical-Physical faculty of Charles University in Prague on 3rd april. You can find the description of the new protocol and the tounament rules on the information page. You can download the base of a brain for the new protocol(written in C).
You can download 3D Gomoku and Cruz.
You can download a new version of Hewer brain.
The web site in english was started. For the next tournament, we're going to use a new protocol with pipes.
The web site in english is ready. History and News pages are not completely finished, but it shouldn't have a influence on a preparation for the coming tournament.
Tournament 2004 is coming. The chat about started. The discussion is mainly about the rules and about the prepared standard input/output protocol.
The earlier is not available in english for now.
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