Gomocup Schedule, 9th-11th of June 2023
There will be 2 freestyle groups (i.e., Freestyle 1 and 2), 1 fastgame group (Fastgame), 2 standard groups (i.e., Standard 1 and 2), 1 renju group (Renju), and 1 caro group (Caro) in Gomocup 2023. Elo rating system is used to evaluate AIs' strength. The memory limit is determined to 350MB. Time per move/per match will be 5s/120s for fastgame, 300s/1000s for final leagues (i.e., Freestyle 1, Standard 1, Renju, and Caro), and 30s/180s for the rest (i.e., Freestyle 2 and Standard 2).
For Freestyle 2 and Standard 2, the top 4 AIs will move up to the next group (i.e., Freestyle 1 and Standard 1, respectively). If the top k (k>4) places were all taken by new (or updated) AIs in a group, then all these k AIs would advance to the next group.
Schedule (tentative)
- Standard 2 - Friday 20:30 (GMT)
- Freestyle 2 - Saturday 3:00 (GMT)
- Fastgame - Saturday 4:30 (GMT)
- Standard 1 - Saturday 5:30 (GMT)
- Freestyle 1 - Saturday 20:00 (GMT)
- Renju - Sunday 1:00 (GMT)
- Caro - Sunday 9:00 (GMT)
What is new?
Updates
- AlphaGomoku (Kozarzewski) 2023 - developed by Maciej Kozarzewski from Poland. Added support for renju and caro. New networks trained on 5 million games. VCF solver was upgraded to alpha-beta serach. Added basic support for Yixinboard protocol. Also some speedups.
- Embryo 2023 - developed by Miroslav Fontán from Czechia. Improvement in search pruning, fixed bugs in Caro5 variant.
- Pela 2023 - developed by Petr Laštovička from Czechia. Caro rule was added in this version, algorithms are same as in previous version.
- Rapfi 2023 - developed by Haobin Duan from China. The NNUE has been updated with newer architecture and trained weights, and the engine has been tuned with SPSA. General search has been improved, and database functionality has been introduced that allows recording database files which is compatible with Yixin's format.
New AI
- Jax - developed by Kailong Jiang from China. Improved MCTS and CNN, self-play training from zero.
- Lavender - developed by Hoang Vinh Nguyen from Vietnam. This version only supports Standard Caro rule.
- Squirrel - developed by Xiyuan Liang from China. A simple AI written in C++ with Alpha-beta pruning, iterative deepening search, VCF/VCT search and translation table.
Leagues
Freestyle 1
- RAPFI23
- KATAGOMO21.F
- BARBAKAN
- EMBRYO23
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK23
- YIXIN18
- PENTAZEN21.20
- STARDUST
- XOXO21.F
- RENJUSOLVER.F
- WINE18
- HEWER18
- + 4 best from Freestyle 2
Freestyle 2
- SLOWRENJU20
- TITO14
- DEEPFIRE19
- WHOSE19
- SWINE17
- CARBON17
- GOFIVE
- ONIX16
- ARBILLO
- EGO21
- PELA23
- GMOTOR11
- CHIS17
- KANEC09
- ZETOR17
- EULRING
- PECUCHET
- ANGEL
- JUDE
- SPARKLE
- MONKEY
- QMENTAT6
- PUREGM21
- DJALL18
- PUSKVOREC
- NOESIS
- FASTGOMOKU14
- IMRO15
- ZHOUMIAN
- LICHT
- PISQ7
- DDQKCONQUER
- LIGHTBLUE
- STAHLFAUST
- FIVEROW
- VALKYRIE
- CRUSHER
- PROLOG
- AIBB
- MUSHROOM
- WHATATEAM
- JAX
- SQUIRREL
Fastgame League
- RAPFI23
- BARBAKAN
- EMBRYO23
- KATAGOMO21.F
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK23
- PENTAZEN21.20
- YIXIN18
- XOXO21.F
- HEWER18
- STARDUST
- WINE18
- SLOWRENJU20
- WHOSE19
- TITO14
- DEEPFIRE19
- CARBON17
- ARBILLO
- SWINE17
- GOFIVE
- EGO21
- PELA23
- GMOTOR11
- CHIS17
- KANEC09
- ZETOR17
- EULRING
- PECUCHET
- ANGEL
- LICHT
- JUDE
- SPARKLE
- MONKEY
- QMENTAT6
- ALPHAGOMOKU.GS
- DJALL18
- PUSKVOREC
- PUREGM21
- NOESIS
- IMRO15
- FASTGOMOKU14
- PISQ7
- ZHOUMIAN
- DDQKCONQUER
- STAHLFAUST
- LIGHTBLUE
- FIVEROW
- VALKYRIE
- CRUSHER
- PROLOG
- AIBB
- MUSHROOM
- WHATATEAM
- JAX
- SQUIRREL
Standard 1
- RAPFI23
- KATAGOMO21.S
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK23
- PENTAZENNN22
- EMBRYO23
- YIXIN18
- RENJUSOLVER.S
- TITO14
- + 4 best from Standard 2
Standard 2
- SLOWRENJU20
- XOXO21.S
- WHOSE19
- HEWER18
- DEEPFIRE19
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- GMOTOR11
- PELA23
- ZETOR17
Renju League
- RAPFI23
- KATAGOMO21.R
- EMBRYO23
- PENTAZENNN22
- YIXIN18
- RENJUSOLVER.R
- WHOSE19
- SLOWRENJU20
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- XL
- PELA23
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK23
- SQUIRREL
Caro League
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK23
- EMBRYO23
- LAVENDER
- PELA23
Tournament Computers
3 x Tencent Cloud Server SA2.8XLARGE64 (Windows Server 2022, x64 32 vCPU (AMD EPYC 7K62, 2.6/3.3GHz), 64GB RAM)
Sponsor
Gomocup is sponsored by Tech Center of Lightspeed & Quantum Studios Group, Tencent