David Fotland, an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, Go player, Go and Chess programmer [1], 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 [2]. 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 [3] .
David Fotland [4]

Photos

Beijing 2008

Go winners (19x19) at the 13th Computer Olympiad, Beijing 2008: David Fotland (Gold), Guillaume Chaslot and Arpad Rimmel (MoGo), Gian-Carlo Pascutto (Leela), surrounded by David Levy and Xinhe Xu [5]

Kanazawa 2010

Jaap van den Herik awards David Fotland, Computer Olympiad, Go (13x13), Kanazawa 2010 [6]

Selected Publications

• 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

References

1. ^ Re: object oriented chess programming by Dave Fotland, rgcc, January 06, 1998
   
2. ^ Details of Program: Many Faces of Go from computer-go.info
3. ^ Smart Games
4. ^ Image captured from 10th Day Image 3, 2008 Gallery by Hideki Kato, 13th Computer Olympiad
5. ^ Image clipped from 11th Day Image 5, 2008 Gallery by Hideki Kato
6. ^ Photo of the 15th Computer Olympiad Kanazawa 2010 by Hideki Kato

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