David+Fotland

an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, Go player, Go and Chess programmer, and author of the world class Go playing program [|Many Faces of Go], which is under development since 1981. The engine combines a traditional knowledge-based algorithm with a modern Monte-Carlo Tree Search. Many Faces of Go, as well as other strategy game programs, like the Arimaa bot //Bomb//, puzzle- and Sudoku solver, are market by Fotland's own computer game software development and publishing company //Smart Games//. || toc =Photos=
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Beijing 2008
and Arpad Rimmel ([|MoGo]), Gian-Carlo Pascutto ([|Leela]), surrounded by David Levy and Xinhe Xu ||
 * [[image:Go19x19Winners2008.jpg width="640" link="http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_katoh/13days/11th_day/slides/DSCF3204.html"]] ||
 * Go winners (19x19) at the 13th Computer Olympiad, [|Beijing] 2008: David Fotland (Gold), Guillaume Chaslot

Kanazawa 2010
=Selected Publications=
 * [[image:JaapAndDavidFotlang.jpg width="640" link="http://picasaweb.google.com/117053534374902710729/15thComputerOlympiadKanazawa"]] ||
 * Jaap van den Herik awards David Fotland, Computer Olympiad, Go (13x13), [|Kanazawa] 2010 ||
 * David Fotland (**1993**). //[|Knowledge representation in the Many Faces of Go]//.
 * David Fotland (**2002**). //[|Static Eye in "The Many Faces of Go"]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4
 * David Fotland (**2004**). //[|Building a World-Champion Arimaa Program]//. CG 2004, [|word doc]
 * David Fotland (**2004**). //Go Intellect wins 19x19 Go tournament//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 » 9th Computer Olympiad
 * David Fotland (**2010**). //Erica wins Go 19x19 Tournament//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3 » 15th Computer Olympiad
 * David Fotland (**2015**). //Computer Arimaa: The Beginning//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Evaluation function question] by Dave Fotland, rgcc, February 07, 1997 » Evaluation
 * [|Re: object oriented chess programming] by Dave Fotland, rgcc, January 06, 1998

=External Links=
 * [|David Fotland's Home Page]
 * [|David Fotland's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|David Fotland's Many Faces of Go]
 * [|Smart Games]
 * [|Fotland, David] from [|computer-go.info]

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