About Steenvreter

Steenvreter is one of the worlds strongest Go programs, by Erik van der Werf. At the core of Steenvreter is a state-of-the-art MCTS engine, a world-class move predictor, and a myriad of Go-specific enhancements. Unlike many other MCTS engines Steenvreter can explicitly recognize life and death, does not have difficulties recognizing seki, and can return provably correct results (perfectly play given enough time).

Results

• 2007:
  • Gold medal in 9x9 tournament at the 12^th Computer Olympiad in Amsterdam (ahead of both MoGo and Crazy Stone)
• 2008:
  • Winner KGS tournament - April 2008 (perfect score!)
  • Shared 3^rd place at 9x9 computer go tournament of the European Go Congress
  • Shared 4^th place in 19x19 tournament at the 13^th Computer Olympiad in Beijing
• 2009:
  • Winner KGS tournament - May 2009 (ahead of 2009 Computer Olypiad winners Zen and Fuego)