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 [1][2]. It also became the first program to pass the first of Ing's challenges by beating a young professional player with a large handicap[3]. 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.[4] specialized in programming Go-software [5]. When a backing software publisher went into financial trouble, Mark decided to end his Go programming career, consigning his JavaTesuji Software Go Library to the public in 2001 [6][7]. Mark Boon now resides in Honolulu, Hawaii and is affiliated with Blue Planet Software.
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 [1] [2]. It also became the first program to pass the first of Ing's challenges by beating a young professional player with a large handicap [3]. 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. [4] specialized in programming Go-software [5]. 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 [6] [7]. Mark Boon now resides in Honolulu, Hawaii and is affiliated with Blue Planet Software.
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