Fuego

Fuego is a collection of C++ libraries for developing software for the game of Go. It includes a Go player using Monte-Carlo tree search. The initial version of the code was released by the Computer Go Group at the University of Alberta and is based in parts on the previous projects Smart Game Board and Explorer. Fuego is available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Fuego project site
GoGui - recommended GUI
Developer documentation (current development snapshot)
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Fuego binaries for Windows compiled by Ben Lambrechts
Big 19x19 Opening books for Fuego created by Ben Lambrechts

Publications

M. Enzenberger and M. Müller. Fuego - an open-source framework for board games and Go engine based on Monte-Carlo tree search. Technical Report TR 09-08, Dept. of Computing Science. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2009.
M. Enzenberger and M. Müller. A lock-free multithreaded Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm. Advances in Computer Games 12, Pamplona, Spain, 2009.
M. Müller. Fuego at the Computer Olympiad in Pamplona 2009 : a tournament report. Technical Report TR 09-09, Dept. of Computing Science. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2009.

Bug reports

Please reports bugs of a released version of Fuego using the bug tracking system on the project page. Bugs in the current development version should be posted to the fuego-devel mailing list instead.

Games Against Humans

Human vs. Computer Program Competition (FUZZ-IEEE 2009)

At this event, held August 21-22 2009 on Jeju Island, Korea, Fuego played a total of three official games. Two were 9x9 games against the top-rank (9 Dan) professional player Zhou Junxun (his name is also transliterated as Chou Chun- Hsun). It won the first game playing white against Mr. Zhou by 2.5 points. It is the first time that a computer program has won a 9x9 game on even against a top-ranked player, so this represents a milestone for Computer Go. Fuego lost the second game against Mr. Zhou, playing Black. In the final official game, Fuego got an upset win on 19x19 against Mr. Chang Shen-Su, a strong 6-Dan amateur player, with 4 handicap stones.

Tournament results

Event	Year	Place
19x19 14th Computer Olympiad 2009	2009	2
9x9 14th Computer Olympiad 2009	2009	1
9x9 13th International Computer Games Championship 2008	2008	4
19x19 13th International Computer Games Championship 2008	2008	4
9x9 Computer Go Tournament European Go Congress 2008	2008	6
19x19 Computer Go Tournament European Go Congress 2008	2008	7

Fuego participates in some of the Computer Go Tournaments on KGS. It won the 45th tournament (9x9) in October 2008 and the 53rd tournament (19x19) in October 2009. Fuego plays on KGS under the user names Fuego (rank graph) and Fuego9. Experimental versions of Fuego play on the Computer Go Server.