Gomocup

Gomocup is a worldwide tournament of artificial intelligences (AI) playing Gomoku and Renju. The tournament has been played since 2000 and takes place every year.[1] As of 2016,[2] it is the most famous and largest Gomoku AI tournament in the world, with around 40 participants from about 10 countries.

Rules

Gomocup has been played in the freestyle Gomoku rule with the board size of 20 since it was started in 2000.[3] In 2009, the standard Gomoku rule was added into Gomocup as a tournament, in which the board size is 15 and more than five in a row is not considered to be a win.[4] In 2016, the Renju rule was also added into Gomocup, with a board size of 15 and forbidden moves for black.[5] In particular, since there are a large number of participants in the freestyle Gomoku tournament, the freestyle Gomoku tournament is divided into several leagues, and the fast game tournament is introduced.[6]

To get rid of the fact that there is a winning strategy for the player who plays first in Gomoku,[7] balanced openings have been prepared by Gomoku experts since 2006.[8] Games would be started from these balanced openings, and neither side would have a big advantage from the very beginning.

AI vs. Human Tournament

There were two AI vs. Human tournaments held in the Czech Republic in 2006 and 2011.

In 2006, the top 3 programs in Gomocup had a tournament with 3 of the top 10 players in Piškvorky online. There were 2 games between each pair of AI and human players. The result was one win, one draw and one loss for AIs, and the total score was 3:3.[9]

In 2011, the tournament was between the top 4 programs in Gomocup and 4 players at the top of the Czech Gomoku rating list. Similar to the 1st tournament, there were 2 games between each pair of AI. This time there were 3 draws and 1 win for AIs, and the total score was 5:3.[10]

Elo Rating

The Elo rating system for Gomocup was built in 2016 and calculated with all the historical tournament results ever since.[11] The rating is calculated with the open-source tool BayesElo,[12] with a few parameters modified to get adapted to the Gomoku game. There is a rating list for each game rule. The Elo ratings are updated every year after the Gomocup tournament finishes.

Elo Ratings for Freestyle Gomoku[11]
RankAIAuthorCountryElo Rating
1YixinSun KaiChina2409
2GoroVictor BarykinRussia1981
3RenjuSolverWen XiangdongChina1951
4SlowRenjuHao TianyiChina1937
4TitoAndrej TokarjevHungary1928
6HewerTomas KubesCzech Republic1887
7SwineJiri FontanCzech Republic1843
8OnixIstvan Virag
Janos Wagner
Hungary1843
9CarbonMichal CzardybonPoland1810
10HGardenHan BingqingChina1739
11WineWang JinjieChina1696
12EmbryoMira FontanCzech Republic1647
13PelaPetr LastovickaCzech Republic1632
14WhoseHou WenCzech Republic1608
15GMotorRoman VancuraCzech Republic1555
16HFMCsaba JerglerHungary1549
17KanecJaroslav BabakCzech Republic1509
18ChisZheng PeimingChina1472
19ZetorTomas ChmelaCzech Republic1455
20XoXoJakub HorakCzech Republic1442
21HighFivePeter KarpovRussia1429
22BetaTomas KubesCzech Republic1362
23BestmoveWen XiangdongChina1292
24EulringBian JunyiChina1286
25AmoebaGalli ZoltanHungary1283
26PecuchetVilem WalterCzech Republic1204
27JudeLi TianChina1200
28SparkleLee JaechanSouth Korea1172
29IgnitorLee JaechanSouth Korea1100
30QMentatVojta HavranekCzech Republic1083
31KrysaJiri FontanCzech Republic1080
32NoesisMark MammelUnited States1065
33NabamokuJiri IsaCzech Republic1011
34TrunkatJiri TrunkatCzech Republic1000
35PureGMPaul DwyerJapan993
36ImroImrich KovacSlovakia972
37PuskvorecPatrik BezdicekCzech Republic969
38FastGomokuWang ZhengChina932
39PisqMartin PetricekCzech Republic897
40DjallLadislav PetrCzech Republic969
41LichtLi XinhuiChina814
42BruteforVasek SynacekCzech Republic811
43StahlfaustMarco Kunze
Sebastian Nowozin
Germany806
44ValkyrieTakashi KokubunJapan792
45LeonardoMilan MatlakCzech Republic792
46BenjaminBenjamin VejnarCzech Republic789
47FiveRowYaroslavUkraine782
48AIJan MacuraCzech Republic754
49DeepBlueVojta HavranekCzech Republic742
50PureRockyPaul DwyerJapan740
51CrusherNils BeckmannGermany672
52CurnpisJan CurnCzech Republic662
53PrologDavid MacekCzech Republic623
54MushroomChen KaiChina383
Elo Ratings for Fastgame Gomoku[11]
RankAIAuthorCountryElo Rating
1YixinSun KaiChina2297
2GoroVictor BarykinRussia2073
3HewerTomas KubesCzech Republic1930
4SlowRenjuHao TianyiChina1863
5TitoAndrej TokarjevHungary1855
6SwineJiri FontanCzech Republic1789
7CarbonMichal CzardybonPoland1780
8HGardenHan BingqingChina1705
9WineWang JinjieChina1695
10PelaPetr LastovickaCzech Republic1663
11EmbryoMira FontanCzech Republic1658
12WhoseHou WenChina1630
13GMotorRoman VancuraCzech Republic1606
14ChisZheng PeimingChina1598
15HFMCsaba JerglerHungary1545
16XoXoJakub HorakCzech Republic1505
17HighFivePeter KarpovRussia1480
18KanecJaroslav BabakCzech Republic1466
19ZetorTomas ChmelaCzech Republic1456
20AmoebaGalli ZoltanHungary1325
21EulringBian JunyiChina1310
22LichtLi XinhuiChina1283
23PecuchetVilem WalterCzech Republic1230
24JudeLi TianChina1219
25SparkleLee JaechanSouth Korea1219
26IgnitorLee JaechanSouth Korea1139
27QMentatVojta HavranekCzech Republic1086
28NoesisMark MammelUnited States1061
29TrunkatJiri TrunkatCzech Republic1060
30ImroImrich KovacSlovakia1019
31PuskvorecPatrik BezdicekCzech Republic1011
32NabamokuJiri IsaCzech Republic1000
33PureGMPaul DwyerJapan965
34FastGomokuWang ZhengChina957
35PisqMartin PetricekCzech Republic938
36DjallLadislav PetrCzech Republic904
37LeonardoMilan MatlakCzech Republic891
38BenjaminBenjamin VejnarCzech Republic862
39AIJan MacuraCzech Republic837
40ValkyrieTakashi KokubunJapan822
41StahlfaustMarco Kunze
Sebastian Nowozin
Germany807
42FiveRowYaroslavUkraine773
43CurnpisJan CurnCzech Republic728
44PureRockyPaul DwyerJapan727
45CrusherNils BeckmannGermany669
46PrologDavid MacekCzech Republic610
47MushroomChen KaiChina416
Elo Ratings for Standard Gomoku[11]
RankAIAuthorCountryElo Rating
1YixinSun KaiChina2409
2RenjuSolverWen XiangdongChina1978
3SlowRenjuHao TianyiChina1958
4TitoAndrej TokarjevHungary1944
5HewerTomas KubesCzech Republic1928
6WhoseHou WenChina1665
7CarbonMichal CzardybonPoland1624
8GMotorRoman VancuraCzech Republic1595
9PelaPetr LastovickaCzech Republic1572
10ZetorTomas ChmelaCzech Republic1507
Elo Ratings for Renju[11]
RankAIAuthorCountryElo Rating
1YixinSun KaiChina2725
2RenjuSolverWen XiangdongChina2334
3SlowRenjuHao TianyiChina2316
4CarbonMichal CzardybonPoland2155
5XLChen ChengtaoChina1982
6PelaPetr LastovickaCzech Republic1970
7WhoseHou WenChina1927

Results

The results for the Gomocup tournaments since 2000 is in the following.[13]

Results of Gomocup Freestyle Gomoku League (2000 - 2017) [lower-alpha 1]
Year 1st 2nd 3rd Balanced

Opening

AI Author Country AI Author Country AI Author Country
2000 Pisq 5 Martin Petricek Czech Republic Pisq 4 Martin Petricek Czech Republic Pisq 3 Martin Petricek Czech Republic Not used
2001 Pisq 5 Martin Petricek Czech Republic Mentat Vojta Havranek Czech Republic Leonardo Milan Matlak Czech Republic Not used
2002 Trunkat Jiri Trunkat Czech Republic Krysa Jiri Fontan Czech Republic XMentat Vojta Havranek Czech Republic Not used
2003 Svine Jiri Fontan Czech Republic Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Trunkat Jiri Trunkat Czech Republic Not used
2004 Svine Jiri Fontan Czech Republic Goro Victor Barykin Russia Bestmove Wen Xiangdong China Not used
2005 Goro Victor Barykin Russia Swine Jiri Fontan Czech Republic Pela Petr Lastovicka Czech Republic Not used
2006 Goro Victor Barykin Russia Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary HGarden Han Bingqing China Used
2007 Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary HGarden Han Bingqing China Swine Jiri Fontan Czech Republic Used
2008 Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Onix Istvan Virag
Janos Wagner
Hungary HGarden Han Bingqing China Used
2009 Goro Victor Barykin Russia Onix Istvan Virag
Janos Wagner
Hungary HGarden Han Bingqing China Used
2010 Goro Victor Barykin Russia Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Onix Istvan Virag
Janos Wagner
Hungary Used
2011 Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Swine Jiri Fontan Czech Republic Used
2012 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2013 Yixin Sun Kai China Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Used
2014 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2015 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Used
2016 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China SlowRenju Hao Tianyi China Used
2017 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Goro Victor Barykin Russia Used
  1. One author is only allowed to submit one AI to each tournament since 2005.
Results of Gomocup Fastgame (Freestyle Gomoku) League (2005 - 2017)
Year 1st 2nd 3rd Balanced

Opening

AI Author Country AI Author Country AI Author Country
2005 Pela Petr Lastovicka Czech Republic Goro Victor Barykin Russia Beta Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Not used
2006 Pela Petr Lastovicka Czech Republic Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Goro Victor Barykin Russia Used
2007 Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary HGarden Han Bingqing China Pela Petr Lastovicka Czech Republic Used
2008 Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary HGarden Han Bingqing China Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2009 Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic HGarden Han Bingqing China Kanec Jaroslav Babak Czech Republic Used
2010 Goro Victor Barykin Russia Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Used
2011 Swine Jiri Fontan Czech Republic Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Used
2012 Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Yixin Sun Kai China Swine Jiri Fontan Czech Republic Used
2013 Yixin Sun Kai China Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic HGarden Han Bingqing China Used
2014 Yixin Sun Kai China Goro Victor Barykin Russia Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2015 Yixin Sun Kai China Goro Victor Barykin Russia Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2016 Yixin Sun Kai China Goro Victor Barykin Russia SlowRenju Hao Tianyi China Used
2017 Yixin Sun Kai China Goro Victor Barykin Russia Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
Results of Gomocup Standard Gomoku League (2009 - 2017) [lower-alpha 1]
Year 1st 2nd 3rd Balanced

Opening

AI Author Country AI Author Country AI Author Country
2009 Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Pela Petr Lastovicka Czech Republic - Used
2010 Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Pela Petr Lastovicka Czech Republic Used
2011 Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic GMotor Roman Vancura Czech Republic Used
2012 Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Yixin Sun Kai China Used
2013 Yixin Sun Kai China Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2014 Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Yixin Sun Kai China Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2015 Yixin Sun Kai China Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Hewer Tomas Kubes Czech Republic Used
2016 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China Tito Andrej Tokarjev Hungary Used
2017 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China SlowRenju Hao Tianyi China Used
  1. The result of standard Gomoku is not accurate due to technical problems in 2009 and 2010.
Results of Gomocup Renju League (2016 - 2017)
Year 1st 2nd 3rd Balanced

Opening

AI Author Country AI Author Country AI Author Country
2016 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China SlowRenju Hao Tianyi China Used
2017 Yixin Sun Kai China RenjuSolver Wen Xiangdong China SlowRenju Hao Tianyi China Used

References

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