These are all the bots on FIBS I currently know about. All except motif are neural nets. (Tom Keith, Motif's author, has written an interesting article on how he wrote Motif. You can also play Motif on the Web, if you have a Java browser.)
A * indicates the bot is currently active on FIBS.
loner
mloner
jellyfish
jf_level_five
tesauro
SnowWhite *
lgammon *
pubeval *
MonteCarlo *
TD_one *
Snowie
Sharkie
motif *
robot *
harmony *
yabot *
yabs *
yabe *
fatboy
maestro
complex
loner
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Author: Harald Wittmann (wittmann@fmi.uni-passau.de)
Plays: One pointers
Other: The first bot to reach a rating of 2000 on FIBS? I think the name "loner"
on FIBS has now been taken by a human
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating: 2150
mloner
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Author: Harald Wittmann (wittmann@fmi.uni-passau.de)
Plays: Multiple points
Other: Is the multi-point version of loner. I think the name "mloner"
on FIBS has now been taken by a human
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating: 2000
jellyfish
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Author: Fredrik Dahl (fredahl@sn.no), fredrikd on FIBS
Plays: Multiple points
Other: Is nearly the same as the commercial Jellyfish, playing at
Level 6
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating: 2038
jf_level_five
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Author: Fredrik Dahl (fredahl@sn.no), fredrikd on FIBS
Plays: Multiple points
Other: Is Jellyfish playing at Level 5
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating: 2004
tesauro
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Author: Gerry Tesauro (tesauro@watson.ibm.com), gerry on FIBS
Plays: Multiple points
Other: This is TD-Gammon, the *original* backgammon neural net
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating:
SnowWhite
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Author: Olivier Egger (oegger@lcavsun1.epfl.ch), oegger on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other: 3-ply lookahead
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 2068
lgammon
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Author: mland@ucsd.edu
Plays: One pointers
Other:
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1648
pubeval
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Author: Gerry Tesauro (tesauro@watson.ibm.com), gerry on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other: The public evaluation mechanism used (I think) for initial TD
Gammon training
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1325
MonteCarlo
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Author: hacksaw@prolog.net
Plays: One pointers
Other:
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1685
TD_one
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Author: Gerry Tesauro (tesauro@watson.ibm.com), gerry on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other: Version of TD Gammon; was previously called sykander
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 2023
Snowie
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Author: Olivier Egger (oegger@lcavsun1.epfl.ch), oegger on FIBS
Plays: Multiple points (maximum 7pts)
Other: "simplified" 3-ply lookahead
Status: Seems not to be on FIBS anymore
Last rating: 2100
Sharkie
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Author:
Plays: One pointers
Other:
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating: 1469
motif
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Author: Tom Keith (tom@bkgm.com), tomkeith on FIBS
Plays: Multiple points
Other: Java version also available (see top of page)
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1877
robot
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Author: Unknown
Plays: One pointers
Other: Weakest bot of all; note the negative rating
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: -834
harmony
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Author: Masahito Yamamoto (masahito@complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp), Masahito on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other:
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1280
yabot
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Author: Peter Fankauser (fankhaus@darmstadt.gmd.de), funk on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other:
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1832
yabs
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Author: Peter Fankauser (fankhaus@darmstadt.gmd.de), funk on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other: Related to yabot (I don't know if it is actually yabot)
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1525 (very low experience)
yabe
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Author: Peter Fankauser (fankhaus@darmstadt.gmd.de), funk on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other: Related to yabot (I don't know if it is actually yabot)
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1525 (very low experience)
fatboy
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Author: John Reid
Plays:
Other: I think the name "fatboy" on FIBS has now been taken by a human
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating: 1650
maestro
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Author:
Plays: One pointers
Other: I think the name "maestro" on FIBS has now been taken by a human
Status: Not on FIBS anymore
Last rating:
complex
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Author: Masahito Yamamoto (masahito@complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp), Masahito on FIBS
Plays: One pointers
Other:
Status: Active on FIBS
Last rating: 1145
Last updated 6th January, 1998
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