The first Computer Go Tournament in the US was organized by Rob Pike as part of the 1984 Usenix conference. Programs ran on the same Unix machine, and communicated through a referee program. The Usenix computer go competition continued until 1988.
In 1988 and 1989, the North American Computer Go Championship was held as a regional preliminary competition for the Ing World Computer Go Congress. David Fotland has been organizing it since then.
The US Computer Go Competition now has cash prizes. In 1996, the prizes were: 1-$1,000, 2-$500, 3-$300, 4-$200. In 1997 similar prizes will be awarded, along with $100 for 5th place, and $200 for the best new entry. Prize money is only available to programs written by US or Canadian residents or citizens.| Programmer | Program | 84U | 85U | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Fotland | The Many Faces of Go | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ken Chen | Go Intellect | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Anders Kierulf | Smart Go | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Kao Kuo Yuan | Stone | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Martin Mueller | Explorer | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 3 |
| Bruce Wilcox | Riscigo/Ego | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3/4 | - | - | - | - |
| Bruce Wilcox | Nemesis | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lynn Beus | Contender | - | - | - | 6 | - | 4 | 4 | - | 3/4 | - | - | - | - |
| Art McGrath | Prototype | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Howard Landman | Poka | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | 5 | 5 | - | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Jim Gunderson | Petronius | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | 4 | - | - | - |
| William Newman | Crithith | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Gary Boos | Teamgo | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Peter Dudey | Fumiko | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Herb Enderton | Golem | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ken Schatten | Go Guru | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| B. Ladendorf | Tsunami | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Logan? | Amigo | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ? | ? | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ken Freidenbach | ? | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bruce Ellis | Goanna | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peter Langston | ogo | 3 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peter Langston | oog | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hank Dietz | Jim | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |