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brew install fuego

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overview

Package summary

Collection of C++ libraries for the game of Go

Project links

Commands and aliases

fuego
fuego_test

history

Project history and usage

Fuego is a collection of C++ libraries for Go-game software, including a Go player based on Monte Carlo tree search. Its official homepage describes it as a project from the University of Alberta Computer Go Group and as a successor using parts of Smart Game Board and Explorer.

Project history

The first Fuego release was version 0.1 on 30 May 2008, tested on then-current Linux distributions and Mac OS X. The project moved quickly through releases focused on UCT search, RAVE updates, prior knowledge, opening books, lock-free search, and Windows support, reaching version 1.0 in January 2010 and version 1.1 in March 2011.

Adoption history

Fuego was used both as a Go engine and as a research framework. The official publications page lists a 2010 IEEE article describing Fuego as an open-source framework for board games and a Go engine based on Monte Carlo tree search, and it lists later research projects and papers using Fuego for comparison or as a basis.

How it is used

Users and researchers build Fuego as C++ libraries and applications for Go-playing experiments. The official documentation is organized by libraries such as GtpEngine, SmartGame, Go, SimplePlayers, and GoUct, plus applications such as FuegoMain and FuegoTest.

Why package nerds care

Fuego matters to package-history work because it is a research-era C++ Go engine with SourceForge SVN hosting, Doxygen documentation, published tournament results, and a name collision with a later Firestore CLI. Its package identity depends on context: games and Monte Carlo tree search, not Firebase.

Timeline

2008: Version 0.1 initial release.
2009: Fuego wins the 9x9 competition at the Computer Olympiad.
2010: Version 1.0 released with Boost program_options, opening-book work, Windows support, and Monte Carlo search improvements.
2010: Fuego wins the 4th UEC Cup on 19x19.
2011: Version 1.1 released.
2013: Official competition page lists continued tournament participation through the 6th UEC Cup.

Related projects

Smart Game Board and Explorer are named by the official homepage as predecessor projects.
GoGui is recommended by the official homepage as a GUI.
MoHex is listed by the official publications page as using Fuego's Monte Carlo search engine and other components.
Pachi is listed by the official publications page as a Go program that used Fuego for comparison and testing.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

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Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.

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executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`fuego`	cli	global executable
`fuego_test`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version1.1

manager updated2026-06-22

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://fuego.sourceforge.net/

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install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:fuego
Version	1.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fuego
Homepage	https://fuego.sourceforge.net/
Repository	https://sourceforge.net/p/fuego/code/HEAD/tree/trunk
Upstream docs	https://fuego.sourceforge.net/
License	GPL-3.0-only OR LGPL-3.0-only
Source archive	https://svn.code.sf.net/p/fuego/code/trunk
Last updated	2026-06-22T14:03:23-07:00
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	boost
Build dependencies	autoconf, automake
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	fuego
Version Scheme	1
Revision	16
Head Version	HEAD
Conflicts With	fuego-firestore
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

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Combined YAML source

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combined/fuego.yml

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