Tournaments between computer programs: chess, draughts, checkers, Go, backgammon, and more
Invader
Authors
| Person | Role | Comment |
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| Richard Lorentz | engine programmer | Supervisor
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| Eugene Furman | engine programmer | Student in 2010, Produced an automatic opening book generator for the MCTS version.
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| Conrad Pack | engine programmer | Student in 2010, Ported to Linux (Ubuntu) while studying various optimization techniques.
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| Dan Dennison | engine programmer | Student in 2006. Provided a standalone version suitable for use with servers such as the GGS.
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| Archie Huerto | engine programmer | Student in 2005. Developed a self-play testing feature.
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| Monica Reiss | engine programmer | Student in 2005. Performed experiments on preserving tree fragments between moves.
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| Akop Karapetyan | engine programmer | Student in 2003. Produced an automatic opening book generator.
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| Henry Avetisyan | engine programmer | Student in 2001. Responsible for the original design and implementation, largely still intact.
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Participations
| Tournament | Title | Participants | Score | Games |
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| Amazons, 2013, Yokohama | | 5 | |
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| Amazons, 2011, Tilburg | Gold medal | 4 | 5.0 |
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| Amazons, 2010, Kanazawa | Gold medal | 7 | |
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| Amazons, 2009, Pamplona | Gold medal | 5 | 9.0 | 12
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| Amazons, 2008, Beijing | Gold medal | 4 | 10.0 | 12
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| Amazons, 2005, Taipei | Silver medal | 3 | 3.0 | 8
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| Amazons, 2003, Graz | Silver medal | 5 | 5.0 | 8
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| Amazons, 2002, Maastricht | Bronze medal | 6 | 7.0 | 10
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| Amazons, 2001, Maastricht | Bronze medal | 4 | 5.0 | 12
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Description
Description given in 2008:
MC/UCT hybrid version of old Invader
URL
http://www.csun.edu/~lorentz/amazon.htm