Gomocup 2025 Announcement

Published by Kai Sun at Mar 7, 2025

Hello, all Gomocup fans!
 
We would like to inform you about some details of the coming Gomocup. Gomocup 2025 will take place from June 6th to June 8th, 2025. The submission deadline is May 30th, 2025, at 11:59 pm UTC. 
 
In Gomocup 2025, all AIs are required to be compatible with Windows 11 and Windows 10, including the corresponding server versions such as Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, and Windows Server 2025. The submitted AI must be able to run on a clean Windows system without pre-installed dependencies.
 
We will host the same set of tournaments running on the Gomocup's computers as last year. Starting this year, we increase the memory limit to 1GB and the AI size limitation to 256MB [1]. All submissions must meet this requirement. One author is allowed to submit only one AI. Time per move/per match will be 5s/120s for fastgame, 300s/1000s for final leagues, and 30s/180s for the rest. For details, you can refer to detail information. Gomocup 2025 will run on CPUs that support up to at least the following instruction sets: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, POPCNT, AVX, and AVX2. If your AI can leverage instruction sets newer than AVX2, you can submit two compilations to us: one compiled for instruction sets up to AVX2, and the other compiled for more advanced instruction sets. We will use the latter if it can be run on the Gomocup's computers. 
 
Besides the tournaments above that run on the Gomocup's computers, we also plan to organize the unlimited tournament. The unlimited tournament has no limitation on AI size and allows participants to use any hardware (e.g., GPUs, large RAM) that they have access to. Following Gomoku World Championships, the rule for this tournament is Swap2. No human intervention is allowed, and to enforce that, every participant in this tournament is required to submit to Gomocup the AI program along with a detailed document on how to set up the environment and run the AI so that we can, theoretically, check if games played in this tournament are reproducible. If you are interested in participating in the unlimited tournament, please send us an email ([email protected]) by May 30th, 2025, at 11:59 pm UTC. The format of the tournament and time per match will be settled based on the number of participants, and the other rules will remain the same as previous years. 

We require every participant to make submissions via the Gomocup user site and sign a copyright statement. If you encounter any problems or bugs while using the system, feel free to send an email to [email protected].

[1] Every submission we received in or before 2024 does not exceed 256MB.