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David Fotland [1] David Fotland,

an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, Go player, Go, Chess and Arimaa programmer [2]. He is author of the 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 [3]. 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 [4] .

Photos#

Beijing 2008#

Go winners (19x19) at the 13th Computer Olympiad: David Fotland (Gold), Guillaume Chaslot

and Arpad Rimmel ( MoGo), Gian-Carlo Pascutto ( Leela), surrounded by David Levy and Xinhe Xu [5]

Kanazawa 2010#

15th Computer Olympiad: TD Jaap van den Herik congrats David Fotland, Richard Segal between,
and Jean-Baptiste Hoock right [6]

Selected Publications#

[7]

• David Fotland (1993). Knowledge representation in the Many Faces of Go.
• David Fotland, Atsushi Yoshikawa (1997). The 3rd Fost-Cup World-Open Computer-Go Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4
• 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
• 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 » C++
• Deep Blue chip talk by David Fotland, CCC, August 19, 1998 » Deep Blue
• Underpromoting other than to a knight by David Fotland, CCC, January 29, 1998 » Minor Promotion

External Links#

• David Fotland | LinkedIn
• David Fotland’s ICGA Tournaments
• David Fotland’s Many Faces of Go
• Smart Games
• Fotland, David from computer-go.info

References#

1. ↑ David Fotland | LinkedIn
2. ↑ Re: object oriented chess programming by Dave Fotland, rgcc, January 06, 1998
3. ↑ Details of Program: Many Faces of Go from computer-go.info
4. ↑ Smart Games
5. ↑ Image clipped from 11th Day Image 5, 2008 Gallery by Hideki Kato
6. ↑ Image Medalists of 13x13 Go from Album archive - 15th Computer Olympiad Kanazawa by Hideki Kato
7. ↑ dblp: David Fotland

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