The Computer Go UEC Cup is an annual worldwide computer Go tournament held at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo, Japan, since 2007. The winners of the tournament would then play exhibition games against a professional Go player.
The tournament was typically structured as a preliminary Swiss-system invitational to determine challengers (with the previous year's UEC winners excluded), then a knockout tournament of sixteen players to determine the champion.
UEC Cup was terminated after its 10th edition in 2017 and was succeeded by AI Ryusei, a new computer Go tournament sponsored by Japanese Igo & Shogi Channel. In 2019, the University of Electro-Communications hosted the renewed 11th UEC Cup with new sponsors.
History UEC Cup winners and runners-up No. Time Winner Runner-up1st1–2 December 2007Crazy StoneKatsunari2nd13–14 December 2008Crazy Stone不動碁3rd28–29 November 2009KCC GoKatsunari4th27–28 November 2010FuegoZen5th3–4 December 2011ZenErica6th16–17 March 2013Crazy StoneZen7th15–16 March 2014ZenCrazy Stone8th14–15 March 2015Crazy StoneDolBaram9th19–20 March 2016Zendarkforest10th18–19 March 2017Fine Art DeepZenGo11th14–15 December 2019GolaxyAQZ12th20-21 March 2021VisionGoRanka Go
Exhibition games against professional Go players Year Position Program Handicap Professional player Result2008Winner Crazy Stone7 stonesKaori Aoba (4p)Crazy Stone won by resignation20093rd placeZen 6 stonesKaori Aoba (4p)Kaori Aoba won by resignation Winner KCC Go 6 stones鄭銘瑝 (9p)鄭 won by resignation2010Runner-upZen 6 stonesKaori Aoba (4p)Zen won by resignation Winner Fuego 6 stones鄭銘瑝 (9p)鄭 won by resignation2011Runner-upErica 6 stonesChizu Kobayashi (5p)Chizu Kobayashi won by resignation Winner Zen 6 stones鄭銘瑝 (9p)Zen won by resignation2013Runner-upZen 4 stonesYoshio Ishida (9p)Yoshio Ishida won by resignation Winner Crazy Stone 4 stonesYoshio Ishida Crazy Stone won by 2.5 points2014Runner-upCrazy Stone 4 stonesNorimoto Yoda (9p)Crazy Stone won by 2.5 points Winner Zen 4 stonesNorimoto Yoda Norimoto Yoda won by resignation2015Runner-upDolBaram 4 stonesCho Chikun (9p)DolBaram won by resignation Winner Crazy Stone 3 stonesCho Chikun Cho Chikun won by resignation2016Runner-updarkforest 3 stonesKoichi Kobayashi (9p)Koichi Kobayashi won by resignation Winner Zen 3 stonesKoichi Kobayashi Zen won by resignation2017Runner-upDeepZenGo evenIchiriki Ryo (7p)DeepZenGo won by resignation Winner Fine Art evenIchiriki Ryo Fine Art won by resignation
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2017 UEC Cup