Mark+Boon

an Dutch computer scientist, video game developer and early Go programmer. He started Go-programming in the early 80s on a Commodore 64 and later on an Atari ST, and developed his Go playing program [|Goliath], three times winner of the //World Computer-Go Championship// in 1989, 1990 and 1991. It also became the first program to pass the first of [|Ing's] challenges by beating a young professional player with a large [|handicap]. He spent converting his program to a commercial version that would run on a [|Nintendo game computer], and soon started the company //Tesuji Software B.V.// specialized in programming Go-software. When a backing software publisher went into financial trouble, Mark decided to end his Go programming career, consigning his Java //Tesuji Software Go Library// to the public in 2001. Mark Boon now resides in [|Honolulu], [|Hawaii] and is affiliated with [|Blue Planet Software]. || toc =Selected Publications=
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 * Mark Boon (**2013**). //[|The Beginning of Computer-Go Programs]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2

=External Links=
 * [|Mark Boon | LinkedIn]
 * [|Mark Boon's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Mark Boon at Sensei's Library]
 * [|Mark Boon's Tesuji Go Library]
 * [|Tesuji Software Go Library | Free Games software downloads] at [|SourceForge.net]

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