Third Computer WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP in RENJU

Dear Renju friends
We had 2-d WC in Renju among computers programs last year.
There were participants from Russia,USA, Japan, China.
We want to have more countries.
In many countries there are programmers who have write programs for Gomoku
Gomoku (five in a row) was solved by Victor Allis from Netherlands
See his theses at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~victor/thesis.html
Renju is the sport variant of gomoku.
Renju is unsolved game.

The new winner program in both championships "Blackstone" by Victor Barikin
is now the best program in Renju.
Mr. Kawamura former Meijin and World Champion kindly write about this
program :
"It is enough strong to play against top players !"
But 2 problems with sure win (tsume renju) from problems solving
championship were not solved by all programs.
It means that it is a lot of work for programmers.
All participants are welcome !
Next 3-d WC will be in summer of 2000 year.
We plan to have Pentium II 400-800 , 64 Mb machines, Win-98
Please, test your program before with the renju test at 5 kyu
there are 10 problems.
http://194.87.49.195/Renju/default.htm
You can send solution in pos files to me (ziped please)
stigma.ltd@relcom.ru
You need in your programs English Menu and some information and
also possibility to load and save .pos files.
Format of .pos files is in this letter.
Rules of 3-d WC in Renju among Computer programs is the same as 2-d WC.
You can download it from
http://194.87.49.195/Renju/progw.htm
You can download DOS-program 2-d place winner of Tournament Championship
made by Mr.Mark Mammel
from :
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mmammel/marksfiv.htm
If you are from Japan you can read information on Japanese
at http://www2k.biglobe.ne.jp/~tomo/aigames/renju.html
Please, send me your Entry-Info forms for receiving future information.
You can download information about previouse WC and games at :
http:\\www.lemes.se\renju\computer\
Please, make possibility to load files in .pos format (Pascal)

 var
    Buffer : array[0..225] of Char ;
    mm:integer;
    s:string[225];
begin
............................................
  s:=Position;
  mm:=GetMaxMove(s); // mm=moves count
  Buffer[0]:=Chr(mm);
  for i:=1 to mm do
  begin
     j:=1;
     while ((GetMoveNumber(s[j])<>i) and (j<=225)) do INC(j);
     Buffer[i]:=Chr(j-1); // where is move number i
  end;
............................................
  FileWrite(FileHandle,Buffer,mm+1);
............................................
end;
 
 

Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky
vice-president of RIF
stigma.ltd@relcom.ru

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This document is an e-mail that ToMo received from Mr.Nosovsky,
and is opened to the public on my Web Page to inform widly.
 

ToMo
Home Page: http://www2k.biglobe.ne.jp/~tomo/aigames/

01/02/99 1st ed.