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Dima Suraev (dvsur) Hey there! First off — please don't disqualify yourself just yet! Yes, the deadline confusion is frustrating (UTC vs. local time gets the best of us), but your passion and effort still count for a lot. I actually only found out about this competition a few weeks before submissions closed, and I went all out in that final stretch — late nights, lots of caffeine, and pushing through to get something I was proud of submitted. I even downloaded other participants' engines and ran local tournaments on my own machine to test and prepare, which was honestly half the fun! If the official deadline has technically passed, I'd still encourage you to reach out to the organizers — explain the timezone mix-up. These communities are often more understanding than you'd expect, especially when they see genuine effort and enthusiasm. And even if the official window has closed, the local tournament scene is alive and well — you've already got the setup to keep competing, learning, and iterating. The fact that you built something, tested it against other engines, and submitted it shows real dedication. That effort doesn't disappear because of a four-hour technicality. Hold your head up — you're already part of the community just by showing up and shipping something. |
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Konstantin Gredeskoul (kig) Hey. This is my first time participating and I don't notice the UTC on the deadline and submitted it at 8pm San Francisco time, which is 4 hrs after May 29 in UTC. Does that mean I am automatically disqualified? |
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shunyi sui (suishunyi) If there is any problem with my pbrain that prevents you from participating in the competition, please contact me immediately by phone: +86 13601946763 |
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shunyi sui (suishunyi) Hi everyone, it had been a long long time since my last time attending the Gomocup competition. the last time was DDQK-Conquer 1.0 when i was in junor school(7grade) that during the pedemic era i coded the AI and submit. Now i have already been a high school students so i want to have an improve. I hope that my AI preform well in the competition I will play fastgame and standard. see you guys in the court |
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Tianyi Hao (wind23) Thank you, Petr! |
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Petr Laštovička (pela) Piskvork 9.0 has been released. It supports freestyle Caro (INFO rule 8) and standard Caro (INFO rule 9). You can run a tournament on your own computer to test your AI. You can download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/piskvork/ or get the C++ source code from https://github.com/plastovicka/Piskvork |
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shunyi sui (suishunyi) Hello everyone It is my first time to attent this competition Also, because i am not a English speaker. Please be torrent for my gramma error and phraseology. |
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Thang Nguyen Van (iwannabetheguy) Hi everyone ! I've started a project for a gomoku AI and I have some problem about my evaluation function. I have a question that how can I implementation a simplest a evaluation function. Thank you so much ! |
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Maciej Kozarzewski (maciek) I've recently started working on something similar, but just forked GomocupJudge and created a version that can run 1vs1 engine tournaments locally - https://github.com/MaciejKozarzewski/GomocupJudgeLocal/tree/master/local_launcher |
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Haobin Duan (riki) Hi all engine developers! I would like to introduce a great CLI tool for running large-scale engine tournaments: c-gomoku-cli (https://github.com/nkg114mc/c-gomoku-cli) authored by Chao Ma and me. This project was originally inspired by c-chess-cli. It has a lot of useful features such as gauntlet tournament, concurrency games, game sampling and more. All three rules(freestyle, standard, renju) are supported. Since this is still a relatively new project, we would like to hear any useful feedback from you, and PR is welcomed as well. |
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Olga Gromova (shaurma) I HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM - I ASK FOR FORGIVENESS TO THE TOURNAMENT ORGANIZERS AND ENGINE DEVELOPERS. "Barbican" and "AlfaGomoku" did not start for me because the path to the file (engine) contained Cyrillic (it was in Russian). I'm from Russia :) The engines started working as soon as I changed the folder names to English |
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Olga Gromova (shaurma) AlphaGomoku 21 also (not only BARBAKAN) does not start, it gives an error. But AG 20 (last year) is working. Maybe they put something wrong for the download ... Why does AG 21 give an error at startup? |
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Olga Gromova (shaurma) What's the difference between "pbrain-barbakan" and "pbrain-barbakan_avx2" in archive follder? what should i use - "pbrain-barbakan" or "pbrain-barbakan_avx2"? |
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Paul Dwyer (paulfdwyer) I think the submission form needs some work. Word of warning to people using it: if you have a couple of errors in your entry (version has a some char that it doesn't like etc) then it will only tell you about the first error it hits and then if you click "back" you text data is all gone. Write long text fields into notepad first and copy paste them to the form so you don't have to type them again and again when you tread on each error. Then you are all good! :) |
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Yuliang Sun (pentazen) https://github.com/sun-yuliang/PentaZen/releases/tag/v0.4.18. Send the link here for ensurance... |
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Yuliang Sun (pentazen) The one hour submission limitation was not expected.. |
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Haobin Duan (riki) Just submitted a wrong version, now needs to wait an hour before submitting the correct one :/ |
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Maciej Kozarzewski (maciek) The limitation of one submission per hour was surprising :/ |
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Paul Dwyer (paulfdwyer) Deadline day.... all is quiet |
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Paul Dwyer (paulfdwyer) oops, "Start Wars Day" that should have read |