- Papers on Go & GoTools 

The following is a list of publications authored or co-authored by Thomas Wolf in the area of Computer Go and mathematical Go.

  1. T. Wolf: A Classification of Semeai with Approach Moves, ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Dec 2015), pp. 224-241. pdf file
  2. T. Wolf: The Mathematics of Seki, talk given at the 2013 ACGA Spring Go Expo, 23-24 March at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts pdf file,
  3. T. Wolf: Graph Theory applied to seki positions in the game of Go, talk given at the Graduiertenkolleg Theoretisch Physikalisches Institut Universität Jena/Germany, 6 Nov 2012
  4. T. Wolf: Basic Seki in Go, talk given online at the 2012 International Go Symposium (Black Mountain, North Carolina), ogv (video) file , pdf file
  5. T. Wolf: Basic Seki in Go, preprint, 15 pages (2012). pdf file
  6. Jeongmin Kim, T.Wolf, Computers make problems of life or death by themselves? (in Korean), in Monthly Go, Journal of the Korean Baduk Association, ISSN 1228 4483, 2011, no 5, p 54-57. pdf file
  7. T. Wolf, Y. Seo: Unseen hard Life & Death Problems, book manuscript, 203 pages (2011). pdf file
  8. T. Wolf, Y. Seo: Unseen moderate Life & Death Problems, book manuscript, 203 pages (2011). pdf file
  9. T. Wolf: A Dynamical Systems Approach for Static Evaluation in Go, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, vol 3 (2011), no 2, DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2011.2141669. ps file, pdf file
  10. T. Wolf: Positions in the game of Go as Complex Systems, Proceedings of 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference (TIC-STH 2009) - Science and Technology for Humanity, IEEE, Toronto, pp. 222-229, ISBN 978-1-4244-3878-5. ps file, pdf file
  11. T. Wolf: A library of eyes in Go, I: Life & death definition consistent with 'bent-4', Games of No Chance 3, MSRI Publications, Vol 56, 233-246, 2009. (Proceedings of the International Workshop on Combinatorial Game theory at BIRS in June 2005 (Banff International Research Station)). pdf file
  12. T. Wolf, M. Pratola: A library of eyes in Go, II: Monolithic eyes, Games of No Chance 3, MSRI Publications, Volume 56, 249-268, 2009. (Proceedings of the International Workshop on Combinatorial Game theory at BIRS in June 2005 (Banff International Research Station)). pdf file
  13. T. Wolf: Two Applications of a Life & Death Problem Solver in Go, Journal of ÖGAI, Vol. 26 (2007), no. 2, 11-18 (special issue for the European Go Championship in Vienna 2007). PS File
  14. T. Wolf and L. Shen: Checking Life & Death Problems in Go I: The Program ScanLD, ICGA Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, p67-74, and Proceedings of the Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW 2007), MICC Technical Report Series, ISSN 0922-8721, number 07-06 (2007), p71-80. ps file and available as presentation at that workshop in Amsterdam (15-17 June 2007): PDF File
  15. T. Wolf and L. Shen: Checking Life & Death Problems in Go I: The Program ScanLD, preprint, 10 pages, May 2007.
  16. L. Shen and T. Wolf: Checking Life & Death Problems in Go II: Results, preprint, 29 pages, May 2007. PS File
  17. T. Wolf: Weiqi and Artificial Intelligence, in the journal "The World of Weiqi", no 4, 2006, p63-64 (in Chinese).
  18. T. Wolf: Ladder Drill, book manuscript (2004) 312 pages.
  19. T. Wolf: A Visit to the Chinese Go Association, Canadian Go Gazette 2003-2004, 20-21.
  20. M. Pratola and T. Wolf: Optimizing GoTools' Search Heuristics using Genetic Algorithms, ICGA Journal 26 (2003), no 1, pp. 28-49. PS File
  21. T. Wolf, Forward pruning and other heuristic search techniques in tsume go, Special issue of Information Sciences 122 (2000), no 1, pp. 59-76. PS File
  22. T. Wolf: Heuristic search in the tsumego program GoTools, Proceedings of JCIS 98, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Oct 1998.
  23. T. Wolf, The Diamond, British Go Journal, 108 (1997), 34-36.
  24. T. Wolf, About computer go and the tsume go program GoTools, Special issue of BIT (ISBN 00110-2-57035) (1997) 139-149.
  25. T. Wolf, About problems in generalizing a tsumego program to open positions, in Proceedings of the GPW'96 in Hakone/Japan, (Sep. 1996), 20-26.
  26. T. Yoshikawa, K. Ishihara, T. Wolf, About a tsumego processor (in Japanese) Computer Today, 69, (1995) No 9, p 48-54.
  27. T. Wolf, The program GoTools and its computer-generated tsume go database, Proceedings of the Game Programming Workshop in Japan'94, Hakone/Japan, (Oct. 1994) 84-96. PDF File
  28. T. Wolf, Go und Künstliche Intelligenz (I), 'Die Wurzel, Zeitschrift für Mathematik, 12/93, 270-276
  29. T. Wolf, Quality improvements in tsume Go mass production, Proc.of the Second GO & Computer Science Workshop, Cannes, 1993, publ.by INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
  30. T. Wolf, Generating tsume go problems with GoTools, in Proc.of the Fourth International Computer Olympidade, London, (1992)
  31. T. Wolf, Tsume Go, with Risiko, in the Proc.of the First Go & Computer Sc.Workshop, Cannes, (1992), publ.by INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
  32. T. Wolf, Tsume Go on a Computer, Proceedings of the ICOT-workshop, (Nov. 1991) in Tokyo.
  33. T. Wolf, Investigating tsumego problems with "RisiKo", in "Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence 2" ed. D.N.L. Levy, D.F. Beal, Ellis Horwood Limited (1991), 153-160.


The following lists some early publications by other authors commenting on GoTools.

  1. Masahiro Okazaki `Amateur 5 or 6 dan: Some tsumego software', Kido, vol.71, no.1(Jan.),pp.108-113 (1994) (in Japanese)
  2. Denis Feldmann `L'Aube d'une Ere Nouvelle?', GO, Revue Francaise de GO, no 66, 2d trimestre 1994, pp. 21--24. (in French) page 21, page 22, page 23, page 24.
  3. Denis Feldman `Breves de comptoir', GO, Revue Francaise de GO, no 68, p14 (1994). (in French) The (scanned) article.
  4. (The above two articles are reproduced with the kind permission of the editor of `Go -- `Revue Française de Go', which is the official publication of the Fédération Française de GO.)
  5. Takeshiro Yoshikawa, Koichiro Ishihara, T. Wolf in Computer Today, Vol 69, Sep. 1995. (in Japanese).
  6. Hiroshi Kawata `An Experimental study on Computer GO' in Proceedings of the Game Programming Workshop in Japan '95, Sep. 1995 in Hakone, pp.1-7. (in Japanese.)
  7. Steve Bailey `The Diamond' Part 1,2,3 in the British Go Journal Winter 1996, Spring and Summer 1997.