GoBench

paper: https://rolandgao.com/gobench.pdf

Active leaderboard: https://rolandgao.com/blog/gobench/

Setup

Use Python 3.12 or newer. From the repository root:

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -e .

Run

Edit the CONFIG = ArenaConfig(...) block near the top of arena.py, then run:

python arena.py

Summary

Generate a summary of the configured historical runs:

python arena.py --summary

Citation

@misc{gao2026gobench,
  title = {{GoBench}: Evaluating {LLMs} on the Game of {Go}},
  author = {Gao, Roland},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://rolandgao.com/gobench.pdf}
}

License

MIT License