Anders+Kierulf

a Swiss computer scientist, Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, [|3-dan Go player], and since 1999 professional Go programmer. Anders is co-author of the veteran program [|Explorer], which was developed along with Martin Müller and Ken Chen, playing eight Computer Olympiads from 1989 until 2005, two times winning Gold medals. His commercial program [|SmartGo] for Windows as well for Apple iPhone and iPad mobile devices is market by his own company //Smart Go, Inc.//, located in [|Utah]. || toc =Smart Game Board= The **Smart Game Board**, topic of Kierulf's Ph.D. thesis, provides a workbench for [|rapid prototyping] of game programs, and has been used for Go, Go-Moku, Othello, and Chess, among others. Along with //Go Explorer//, the Smart Game Board was introduced by Jürg Nievergelt at the New Directions in Game-Tree Search workshop during the WCCC 1989, further elaboared by Martin Müller at the Heuristic Programming in AI 2 workshop of the 2nd Computer Olympiad in 1990.
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=Selected Publications=
 * Anders Kierulf (**1985**). //Smart Go Board: Algorithms for the Tactical Calculator//. Diploma thesis (unpublished), ETH Zurich.
 * Anders Kierulf (**1989**). //New Concepts in Computer Othello: Corner Value, Edge Advoidance, Access, and Parity//. Heuristic Programming in AI 1
 * Anders Kierulf, Jürg Nievergelt (**1989**). //Swiss Explorer blunders its way into winning the first computer Go Olympiad//. Heuristic Programming in AI 1
 * Anders Kierulf, Ken Chen, Jürg Nievergelt (**1989**). //Smart Game Board and Go Explorer: A Case Study in Software and Knowledge Engineering//. Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search
 * Anders Kierulf (**1990**). //Smart Game Board: a Workbench for Game-Playing Programs, with Go and Othello as Case Studies//. Ph.D. thesis, ETH Zurich, advisor: Jürg Nievergelt
 * Ken Chen, Anders Kierulf, Martin Müller, Jürg Nievergelt (**1990**). //The Design and Evolution of Go Explorer//. Computers, Chess, and Cognition, pp. 271-285

=External Links=
 * [|SmartGo - Anders Kierulf]
 * [|Anders Kierulf's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Kierulf, Anders] from [|computer-go.info]
 * [|Anders Kierulf - The Othello Wiki Book Project]

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