Zen

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Zen is a strong Go engine by an individual Japanese programmer Yamato (real name not disclosed yet). A bot running this engine played on KGS in April and May 2009 as Zen19 and was the first to hold a KGS 2d (and 1d) rating for more than 20 rated games in a row.

It won the 2009 Computer Olympiad in Pamplona, Spain, running on the slowest hardware among the competitors.

Zen's author plans to release the software commercially. He hasn't given any release date estimates.

Hardware used to run Zen19 on KGS: Quad-Core AMD Opteron


  • Late in May 2009, Zen19's rating at KGS drifted to 2d (it had not played any games since May 8).
  • On June 8 2009, Zen19 returned and is holding a 2d rating.

In July 2009, several different levels of Zen started playing on KGS:

Name Rating Playouts
ZenLv1 4k 500
ZenLv2 3k 1000
ZenLv3 1k 2000
ZenLv4 1k 4000
ZenLv5 1d 8000
ZenLv6 1d 16000
Zen19 2d N/A - full strength uses full byo-yomi period

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