Gomocup Schedule, 14th-16th of May 2021
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), and 1 renju group (Renju) in Gomocup 2021. Elo rating system is used to evaluate AIs' strength. The memory limit is determined to 350MB, and the AI size limitation is 8MB. Time per move/per match will be 5s/120s for fastgame, 300s/1000s for final leagues (i.e., Freestyle 1, Standard 1, and Renju), 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.
In addition, there will be an experimental tournament, where AIs will be running on participants' computers. This experimental tournament has no limitation on AI size and allows participants to use any hardware (e.g., GPUs) that they have access to. Time per match will be 90 min. There is no additional time limitation per move. Following Gomoku World Championships, the rule for this tournament is Swap2. The tournament will be a double round-robin tournament and tie-break criteria are: game points; match points; Berger coefficient; personal score, following World Correspondence Gomoku Championships.
Schedule (tentative)
- Freestyle 2 - Friday 17:30 PM UTC/GMT
- Standard 2 - Saturday 00:20 AM UTC/GMT
- Fastgame - Saturday 04:20 AM UTC/GMT
- Standard 1 - Saturday 15:20 PM UTC/GMT
- Renju - Saturday 20:00 PM UTC/GMT
- Freestyle 1 - Sunday 19:10 PM UTC/GMT
What is new?
Updates
- AlphaGomoku (Kozarzewski) 2021 - New training run of about 1 million games; included VCF solver in the search algorithm.
- Ego 2021 - Bug fixed.
- Embryo 2021 - Fixed wrong forbidden points classification in Renju; fixed swap logic; some speedup.
- Katagomo 2021 - Rewritten based on a new Katago version, so it has a CPU-only version now and will participate in all the classical leagues as well; added a strict VCF solver; new nets with VCF feature input.
- PentaZen 2021 - Searching and evaluation are optimized; support SWAP-2, multithreading, and some Yixin-Board commands.
- PureGM 2021 - MCTS algorithm guided by a trained ANN.
- Rapfi 2021 - Support for standard and renju rule is added; serveral bugs are fixed and some modification is made on evaluation; basic support for Yixin-Board is added.
- XoXo 2021 - Improved threat detection; auto tuning.
New AI
- Barbakan - a Gomoku program developed by Janos Wolosz and contributors of Katago. To determine the best moves Barbakan is combining two kinds of searches: a relatively slow Monte Carlo search with NN evaluation and a fast surewin search on the search leaves. The Monte Carlo search and the NN training pipeline of Barbakan is based on go program KataGo. Barbakan supports freestyle rule.
Other Changes
- Due to high crash rate of TIANSHU and BENJAMIN, they are removed from Gomocup this year.
Leagues
Freestyle 1
- EMBRYO21.F
- RAPFI21
- YIXIN18
- PENTAZEN21.20
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK21
- XOXO21.F
- WINE18
- STARDUST
- + 4 best from Freestyle 2
Freestyle 2
- RENJUSOLVER.F
- SLOWRENJU20
- HEWER18
- TITO14
- WHOSE19
- DEEPFIRE19
- SWINE17
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- ONIX16
- EGO21
- PELA17
- GMOTOR11
- KANEC09
- CHIS17
- ZETOR17
- EULRING
- PECUCHET
- SPARKLE
- JUDE
- MONKEY
- QMENTAT6
- DJALL18
- PUREGM21
- IMRO15
- NOESIS
- FASTGOMOKU14
- PUSKVOREC
- PISQ7
- LICHT
- LIGHTBLUE
- VALKYRIE
- FIVEROW
- CRUSHER
- STAHLFAUST
- PROLOG
- AIBB
- MUSHROOM
- WHATATEAM
- BARBAKAN
- KATAGOMO21.F
Fastgame League
- EMBRYO21.F
- RAPFI21
- YIXIN18
- PENTAZEN21.20
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK21
- HEWER18
- STARDUST
- SLOWRENJU20
- WINE18
- WHOSE19
- TITO14
- DEEPFIRE19
- GOFIVE
- SWINE17
- CARBON17
- EGO21
- PELA17
- GMOTOR11
- CHIS17
- KANEC09
- EULRING
- ZETOR17
- PECUCHET
- LICHT
- JUDE
- SPARKLE
- MONKEY
- ALPHAGOMOKU.GS
- QMENTAT6
- PUREGM21
- DJALL18
- PUSKVOREC
- IMRO15
- NOESIS
- FASTGOMOKU14
- PISQ7
- LIGHTBLUE
- VALKYRIE
- FIVEROW
- STAHLFAUST
- CRUSHER
- PROLOG
- AIBB
- MUSHROOM
- WHATATEAM
- BARBAKAN
- KATAGOMO21.F
- XOXO21.F
Standard 1
- EMBRYO21.S
- YIXIN18
- PENTAZEN21.15
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK21
- XOXO21.S
- RENJUSOLVER.S
- WHOSE19
- TITO14
- + 4 best from Standard 2
Standard 2
- SLOWRENJU20
- HEWER18
- DEEPFIRE19
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- ZETOR17
- GMOTOR11
- PELA17
- KATAGOMO21.S
- RAPFI21
Renju League
- EMBRYO21.R
- YIXIN18
- PENTAZEN21.15
- SLOWRENJU20
- WHOSE19
- RENJUSOLVER.R
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- XL
- PELA17
- KATAGOMO21.R
- RAPFI21
Experimental Tournament
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK21
- EMBRYO21.E
- KATAGOMO21.E
- PENTAZEN21
- SLOWRENJU20.E
Sponsor
Gomocup is sponsored by Tech Center of Lightspeed & Quantum Studios Group, Tencent