Gomocup Schedule, 6th-8th of June 2025
(under maintenance)
There will be 2 freestyle (20x20) groups (i.e., Freestyle-20 1 and 2), 2 freestyle (15x15) groups (i.e., Freestyle-15 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 2025. Elo rating system is used to evaluate AIs' strength. The memory limit is determined to 1GB. Time per move/per match will be 5s/120s for fastgame, 300s/1000s for final leagues (i.e., Freestyle-20 1, Freestyle-15 1, Standard 1, Renju, and Caro), and 30s/180s for the rest (i.e., Freestyle-20 2, Freestyle-15 2, and Standard 2).
AIs were divided into different freestyle and standard groups according to the placement in the last tournament. For Freestyle-20 2, Freestyle-15 2, and Standard 2, the top 4 AIs will move up to the next group (i.e., Freestyle-20 1, Freestyle-15 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 Fastgame, Freestyle-20 2, Freestyle-15 2, and Standard 2, we do not match every pair of AIs. Instead, for old AIs, we only match every pair of them whose last year's Elo difference was no more than 400. We still match each brand new/updated AI with all AIs.
The unlimited tournament, which has no hardware constraints, will not be held this year, as we only received one submission for this league.
What is new?
Updates
- AlphaGomoku (Kozarzewski) 2025 - New neural network architecture.
- Ego-Zero 2025 - This version is based on MCTS and ResNet.
- Embryo 2025 - Better support for AVX2 instruction set. Some speedup in search.
- Jax 2025 - The Monte Carlo tree search plus neural network model solution from last year is used, but the models are more powerful and there are fewer of them, and the four rules (Freestyle, Standard, Renju, Standard Caro) with a board size of 15 use the same model; one engine supports all groups of Gomocup2025 competitions; and a memory problem in multi-threaded search is fixed.
- Rapfi 2025 - New NNUE architecture featuring a reduced weight size and lower memory footprint. Added support for AVX-VNNI, AVX-512, and AVX-512 VNNI instruction sets.
New AI
- Figrid - developed by Bobo Wu from China. First version, really weak.
- TPTC - developed by Bruno Yerro from France. TPTC is written in python.
Schedule (tentative)
- Standard 2 - Saturday 12:30 AM (GMT)
- Standard 1 - Saturday 4:00 AM (GMT)
- Freestyle-20 2 - Saturday 6:00 AM (GMT)
- Fastgame - Saturday 7:30 AM (GMT)
- Freestyle-15 2 - Saturday 9:30 AM (GMT)
- Freestyle-20 1 - Saturday 11:30 PM (GMT)
- Renju - Sunday 2:30 AM (GMT)
- Freestyle-15 1 - Sunday 4:00 AM (GMT)
- Caro - Sunday 8:00 PM (GMT)
Leagues
Freestyle-20 1
- RAPFI25
- BARBAKAN
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK25
- KATAGOMO21.F
- JAX25
- EMBRYO25
- YIXIN18
- PENTAZEN21.20
- XOXO21.F
- WINE18
- STARDUST
- SLOWRENJU20
- + 4 best from Freestyle-20 2
Freestyle-20 2
- HEWER18
- TITO14
- WHOSE19
- DEEPFIRE19
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- SWINE17
- ONIX16
- ARBILLO
- EGOZERO25
- PELA23
- SQUIRREL24
- GMOTOR11
- KANEC09
- CHIS17
- ZETOR17
- EULRING
- ANGEL
- JUDE
- PECUCHET
- MONKEY
- SPARKLE
- DJALL18
- PUREGM21
- QMENTAT6
- PUSKVOREC
- IMRO15
- NOESIS
- FASTGOMOKU14
- PISQ7
- LICHT
- ZHOUMIAN
- DDQKCONQUER
- LIGHTBLUE
- VALKYRIE
- CRUSHER
- FIVEROW
- STAHLFAUST
- PROLOG
- WHATATEAM
- AIBB
- MUSHROOM
- FIGRID
- TPTC
Freestyle-15 1
- RAPFI25
- JAX25
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK25
- EMBRYO25
- YIXIN18
- WINE18
- SLOWRENJU20
- HEWER18
- + 4 best from Freestyle-15 2
Freestyle-15 2
- WHOSE19
- DEEPFIRE19
- TITO14
- ARBILLO
- CARBON17
- GOFIVE
- EGO21
- PELA23
- GMOTOR11
- KANEC09
- CHIS17
- SQUIRREL24
- ZETOR17
- EULRING
- PECUCHET
- MONKEY
- DJALL18
- IMRO15
- FASTGOMOKU14
- PISQ7
- STAHLFAUST
- DDQKCONQUER
- LIGHTBLUE
- CRUSHER
- PROLOG
- WHATATEAM
- FIGRID
- TPTC
Standard 1
- RAPFI25
- JAX25
- KATAGOMO21.S
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK25
- EMBRYO25
- PENTAZENNN22
- YIXIN18
- XOXO21.S
- + 4 best from Standard 2
Standard 2
- WHOSE19
- SLOWRENJU20
- HEWER18
- TITO14
- DEEPFIRE19
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- ZETOR17
- PELA23
- GMOTOR11
- SQUIRREL24
- FIGRID
Renju
- RAPFI25
- KATAGOMO21.R
- JAX25
- PENTAZENNN22
- EMBRYO25
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK25
- YIXIN18
- WHOSE19
- SLOWRENJU20
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- SQUIRREL24
- XL
- PELA23
Fastgame
- WHOSE19
- SLOWRENJU20
- HEWER18
- TITO14
- DEEPFIRE19
- GOFIVE
- CARBON17
- ZETOR17
- PELA23
- GMOTOR11
- SQUIRREL24
- RAPFI25
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK25
- BARBAKAN
- KATAGOMO21.F
- EMBRYO25
- JAX25
- YIXIN18
- PENTAZEN21.20
- XOXO21.F
- STARDUST
- WINE18
- SWINE17
- ARBILLO
- EGOZERO25
- CHIS17
- KANEC09
- ANGEL
- LICHT
- EULRING
- PECUCHET
- JUDE
- SPARKLE
- MONKEY
- DJALL18
- QMENTAT6
- PUREGM21
- ALPHAGOMOKU.GS
- PUSKVOREC
- NOESIS
- IMRO15
- FASTGOMOKU14
- PISQ7
- ZHOUMIAN
- DDQKCONQUER
- LIGHTBLUE
- VALKYRIE
- STAHLFAUST
- CRUSHER
- FIVEROW
- PROLOG
- AIBB
- WHATATEAM
- MUSHROOM
- TPTC
Caro
- ALPHAGOMOKU.MK25
- EMBRYO25
- JAX25
- LAVENDER
- SQUIRREL24
- PELA23
Tournament Computers
Tencent Cloud Servers SA2.8XLARGE64 (Windows Server 2025 Datacenter, 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