KGS Bots
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KGS Robots Page
Nils: This page is intended to list all of the robots that are being run on the KGS server. The intent is to foster conversation in the "Computer Go" room to allow the authors to exchange ideas, and possibly get a regular computer go tournament (Tournament Directing Software Requirements) going on the server. Take note that the vast majority of bots are running one version or another of GNU Go, sometimes with various tweaks.
RiffRaff: Last global check of active bots performed on October 24th, 2005.
If the KGS archive doesn't show any game for a bot name, make the check mark at '[x] Include expired and guest accounts?'
kritz: Since the recent rank shift, many of the ranks here are incorrect. I am wondering if the Bot ranks would be a good way to settle the new rankcomparison? for mid level kyus on kgs?
I'm thinking in the 12k to 7k range.
heh those bots are good ways for new players to get ranks, but I recommend not to play bots too much.
Current engines on KGS (played games within last month)
- Please keep them in alphabetical order!
AyaBot,
AyaBot2,
AyaBot3,
AyaBot4,
AyaBot5
Engine: Aya
Homepage These bots run on.
opteron quad server
Owner: Hiroshi Yamashita
Room: Computer Go
Strength:8k (ranked robot)
Engine: AyaMC (with Monte Carlo search)
Homepage These bots run on.
opteron quad server
Owner: Hiroshi Yamashita
Room: Computer Go
Strength:3k (ranked robot)
CrazyStone and
StoneCrazy
Engine: CrazyStone
Homepage
Owner: RemiCoulom
Room: Computer Go
Strength:1k (ranked robot)
Engine: MoGo Release3 on dual-core Athlon64 4800+ with 4G RAM, 2 threads with pondering mode on.
Owner: pasky
Room: Cesky pokoji
Strength:3k (ranked robot)
Engine: Gnu Go 3.7.7 set at level 10
Owner: Razorflame
Room: English Game Room
Strength: ? (about 15 kyu)
Engine: GNU Go 3.6 that has been heavily randomized to play at about 30k level. Same thing as daftbot.
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:30k (ranked robot)
Engine: Fuego, an open source Monte Carlo engine by Martin Mueller, Markus Enzenberger, et al
Owner: ?
Room: Computer Go
Strength:3k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.6
Owner: ?
Room: Icelandic Room
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Engine: Current GNU Go development version with varying amounts of experimental code.
Owner: ?
Room: Computer Go
Strength:5k (ranked robot)
GnuGoBot1,
GnuGoBot2,
GnuGoBot3
Engine: GNU Go latest version
Homepage
Owner: Hans-Georg Michna
Room: Computer Go
Strength:6k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.10 level 16
Owner: nodog
Room: English Game Room
Strength:6k (ranked robot)
SL Housebot page
Housebot Homepage
Engine: HouseBot (version varies: latest from subversion repository)
Owner: jhouse
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:Unranked (probably 22-25k)
SL Housebot page
Housebot Homepage
Engine: HouseBot 0.4
Owner: jhouse
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:18-19k
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.10
Owner:HikaruUSA
Room: Jasper High School Go Club
Strength: 7-5 kyu
SL Housebot page
Housebot Homepage
Engine: HouseBot 0.4 (May change to 0.7 soon)
Owner: jhouse
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:18-19k
Engine: Plays almost randomly
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginners Room
Strength: Estimated at about 100-120k
Engine: Indigo
Owner:Bruno Bouzy
Room: Computer Go
Strength:6k (ranked robot)
Engine: InsanelySimple?
Owner: Ed Poor
Room: Computer Go
Strength: [29k?] (has occasionally won a game)
Engine: Leela
Owner:Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Room: Computer Go
Strength:1k (ranked robot)
Engine: An earlier fork from GNU Go 1.2 made at 1999-01-07 before GNU Go 2.0 was released. It's significantly stronger than GNU Go 1.2 and significantly weaker than GNU Go 2.0.
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:23k (ranked robot)
Engine: Many Faces of Go with UCT and Monte Carlo
Owner: David Fotland
Room: Computer Go
Strength:3k (ranked robot)
Engine: GnuGo 3.7.11 --level 12
Owner: ?
Room: Computer Go
Strength:6k (ranked robot)
MoGo page
MoGo Homepage
Engine: MoGo
Owner: Casillux (Sylvain Gelly) and Yizao (Yizao Wang)
Room: Computer Go
Strength: about2k (ranked robot) in 19x19, more in 9x9.
Engine: GNU Go with experimental Monte Carlo enhancements.
Owner: ???
Room: ???
Strength: -(unranked/free robot)
SL Postneo page
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.10
Owner: andi
Room: Australia Room
Strength:6k
and6k (ranked/free robot)
RankBot000 and
RankBot001
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.10 and MoGo version 2
Owner: planar
Room: The Ranking Room
Strength:6k and
4k (ranked robot)
Engine: Gnu Go 3.7.7 set at level 10 Owner: Razorflame Room: English Game Room Strength: ~15k (Unranked Bot)
Engine: Gnu Go 3.7.7 tweaked to be more random. Set at level 0. Owner: Razorflame Room: Computer Go Strength: ~18-20k (Unranked Bot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.9
Owner: vira
Room: Ewige Blumenkraft
Strength:12k (ranked robot)
Engine: ???
Owner: ???
Room: ???
Strength: - (unranked robot)
Engine: SimpleGo
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginners Room
Strength:25k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.10
Owner: Malweth
Room: Southern New England Go Association
Strength: [6k?] (unranked robot)
Engine: ?
Owner: tossy
Room: Japanese Game Room
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Engine: SimpleBot v0.1.6
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginners Room
Strength: Estimated at 45-50k
Inactive engines on KGS (no recent games)
Engine: GNU Go
Owner: bucko
Room: English Game Room
Strength:13k
and14k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.6 (compiled every once in a while from CVS)
Owner: Kagura
Room: English Game Room
Strength:14k (ranked robot)
SL GnuGoCVS page
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.6 (compiled nightly from CVS)
Owner: Fwiffo
Room: English Game Room
Strength:unknown (ranked robot)
Engine: Ancient GNU Go 2.4
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:16k (ranked robot)
Engine: Old GNU Go 2.6
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:17k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.0
Owner: Aloril
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:16k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.6
Owner: jyem
Room: Salle Française
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.7 --never-resign --large-scale --cosmic-gnugo
Owner: ?
Room: Computer Go
Strength:14k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.2
Owner: syair
Room: Indonesia
Strength:12k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.7
Owner: Hypatia
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:12k (ranked robot)
Engine: ?
Owner: theturtle,Lille Go Club
Room: English Game Room
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Homepage
Engine: Experimental new Many Faces engine using full board alpha-beta search.
Owner: David Fotland
Room: Computer Go
Strength:6k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.7
Owner: Spectrums
Room: ERMS Go Club
Strength: approx. 16k
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.9
Owner: ookami
Room: Computer Go
Strength: ?
Engine: GNU Go 3.6
Owner: pmw
Room: English Game Room
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Razorbot3,
Razorbot4, and
Razorbot5
Engine: Gnu 3.7.7 set at level 10
Owner: Razorflame
Room: Computer Go
Strength: around 18 kyu
Engine: Gnu Go v. 3.7.7
Owner: YukiMitani
Room:Computer Go
Strength:13k (Ranked Robot)
sai0bot1,
sai0bot2,
sai0bot3,
sai0bot4,
sai0bot5, and
sai0bot6
Engine: Gnu Go v. 3.7.7
Owner: YukiMitani
Room:Computer Go
Strength: Around 18 kyu
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.7
Owner: schokonick
Room: Computer Go
Strength:14k (ranked robot)
Engine: A bot developed at UCSC with support from HSRF
Owner: ?
Room: Computer Go
Strength:14k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go
Owner: sobi
Room: English Game Room
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Engine: Experimental version of tlsBot
Owner: bazik & broege
Room: Computer Go
Strength: ?
Engine: Usually a very recent CVS version of GNU Go
Owner: burtabel
Room: English Game Room
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Engine: Gnu Go 3.7.2
Owner: Hikaru79
Room: The Goban
Strength:13k (ranked robot)
Engine: Viking ver. 4
Owner: zapp
Room: Computer Go
Strength:27k (ranked robot)
Engine: Viking ver. 5
Owner: zapp
Room: Computer Go
Strength: about 14 kyu (7x7 and 9x9)
Former engines on KGS (accounts deleted)
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.4 with Cosmic Option
Owner: mgoetze
Room: Computer Go
SL daftbot page
Engine: GNU Go 3.6 via gtpTuner? 1.4
Owner: blubb
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength: intended to be ~30k
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.6 (strength settings almost as low as can go)
Owner: Kagura
Room: English Game Room
Engine: Dumbbot v0.2 (a from-scratch bot written in C)
Owner: Kestrel
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength: worse than 30k
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.4
Owner: mgoetze
Room: Beginner's Room
Engine: Go81 1.7
Owner: Tapani
Room: Computer Go
Engine: Gozilla 0.0
Owner: alfalfa
Room: Computer Go
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.4
Owner: uno
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength: 9k? (unrated)
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.6
Owner: Katsu
Room: Computer Go
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.10
Owner: tubbs
Room: The Dutch Windmill
Engine: GNU Go 3.6
Owner: JasonD
Room: English Game Room
Strength:12k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.7.4
Owner: sailaway
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:12k (ranked robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.x
Owner: LessDrunk
Room: Computer Go
Engine: GNU Go
Owner: ?
Room: English Game Room
Strength:12k (ranked robot)
SL Reflector page
Engine: Mirrors moves until mistake, then switches to GNU Go
Owner: AshleyF
Room: Beginner's Room
Strength:14k (ranked/free robot)
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.6 (strength settings almost as low as can go)
Owner: Kagura
Room: English Game Room
Engine: GNU Go 3.4
Owner: Teraii
Room: Salle Francaise
Engine: GNU Go 3.5.7
Owner: Mcgreag
Room: Svenska Rummet
Engine: GNU Go 3.6 via gtpTuner? 1.4
Owner: blubb
Room: English Game Room
Strength: from 30k to 11k, at opponent's choice
Engine: Wbot? ver. Beta 1
Owner: W
Room: Computer Go
Strength: somewhere around 30 kyu
Engine: GNU Go 3.6-pre2
Owner: sita
Room: Computer Go
Others
- goliath
- gopp
- gotebot
- GoteGo
- Hubot1(9x9 version from now)
- onigatachi
- P1/P3/P4(9k)
- PicaBOT
- SinWasher? (gnugo 3.4) around 9 kyu
- Blitzkrieg
Link Collection
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Robots GTP sur KGS (similar to this page, in French)
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How to run a GnuGo robot on KGS -- step by step instructions
- Blue Wyverns Computer Go Corner
- Computer Go
- Computer Go Language Question
- Computer Go Musings
- Computer Go Programming
- Games Against Computers - 1
- Holigor/research in computer go
- Home Computers
- Some Philosophical Questions about Computers and Go
- Use of SGF editors and Computer Go programs during games
- Messages to People Currently Present in the Library
- BadBots (proposed ladder for non-GNU Go bots)
- KGSBotRatings (Bot ratings estimated by external applications)
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Link list of many engines (on the Dariush pages