The Computer Olympiad is a multi-games event in which computer programs compete against each other. For many games, the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to claim the "world's best computer player" title. First contested in 1989, the majority of the games are

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but other games such as

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take place as well. In 2010, several puzzles were included in the competition.

History

Developed in the 1980s by David Levy, the first Computer Olympiad took place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in

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. The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser. This resulted in the games being suspended until 2000 when the

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resurrected them. Recently, the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has adopted the Computer Olympiad and tries to organise the event on an annual basis.

Games contested

The games which have been contested at each olympiad are:

1st Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

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# Marco (R. Nierat) # Wali (E. van der Schilden) # Conchus (S. Thomas)

Backgammon Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Pe ...

# Neurogammon (Gerald Tesauro) # Video Gammon (R. Hoogerhyde) # Saitek Backgammon (Treesoft)

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#
Acol Master Bridge
(Paul Jones) # Vtech (Tony Guilfoyle) # Oxford Bridge 3 (Andrew Bracher)

Checkers Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...

# Chinook (J. Schaeffer) # Checkers! (G. Dodgen) # Tournament Checkers (D. Butler)

Chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

# Rebel (Ed Schroeder) #

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(Richard Lang) # Fidelity (Kathe and Dan Spracklen)

Chinese chess ''Xiangqi'' (; ), also called Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. ''Xiangqi'' is in the same family of games as ''shogi'', ''janggi'', Western chess, ''chatu ...

# Acer Chinese Chess (Y. Shi-Shun) # Chinese chess Expert Acme (K-M. Ts'ao) # Elephant (S-C. Hsu)

Connect Four Connect Four (also known as Connect 4, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Captain's Mistress, Four in a Row, Drop Four, and Gravitrips in the Soviet Union) is a two-player connection board game, in which the players choose a color and then take tur ...

# Victor ( V. Allis) # Heap (M. Taylor) # Four Blitz (H. van der Zijden)

Dominoes Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces, commonly known as dominoes. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ''ends''. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also c ...

# LUciano (D. Borrajo) # Seneca (M. Alicia Perez) # Rio de la Plata (E. Gramajo)

Draughts Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...

# Dios '89 (E. van Riet Paap) # Truus (S. Keetman) # McDammen (R. P. G. van Bemmelen) Go 19×19 # SWISS Explorer (A. Kierulf) # Goliath (M. Boon) # Star of Poland (J. Kraszek) Go 9×9 # Dragon (D-Y. Lin) # Go Intellect (K. Chen) # Goliath (M. Boon)

Gomoku ''Gomoku'', also called ''Five in a Row'', is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces (black and white stones) on a Go board. It is played using a 15×15 board while in the past a 19×19 board was standard. Be ...

# Matena (A. Frolov) # Homoku Sapiens (N. Alexandrov) # Domino (M. Muron and J. Novotny) Othello # Polygon (A. Selby) # Comp'oth (F. Aguillon) # Badia (M. van Tien)

Renju ''Renju'' (Japanese: 連珠) is a professional variant of gomoku. It was named renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa (黒岩涙香) on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper ''Yorozu chouhou'' (萬朝報). The name "renju" comes from th ...

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# Crab (A. Appel, G. Jacobson, G. Thomas and S. Thomas) # Tyler (A. Frank) # Quetzal (T. Guilfoyle and R. Hooker)

2nd Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

# Lithidion (University of Limburg) # Marco (R. Nierat)

# Video Gammon (R. Hoogerhyde) # Prospero (R. Mills)

# Bridge Baron (T. Throop and T. Guilfoyle) # Oxford Bridge (A. Bracher)

# Colossus ( M. Bryant) # Chinook ( J. Schaeffer) # Checkermate (D. Oldbury and A. Millett)

( R. Lang) # Rebel (E. Schroeder) # Zugzwang (P. Mysliwietz and R. Feldman)

# Elephant (S-C. Hsu) # Chinese Chess Expert (K-M. Ts'ao) # NKS (H.S. Long and S. Zi) Go 19×19 # Go Intellect (K. Chen) # SWISS Explorer (A. Kierulf and M. Müller) # Go 4 (M. Reiss) Go 9×9 # Go Intellect (K. Chen) # Go 4 (M. Reiss) # Dragon (D-Y. Lin)

Othello # Dumbo (T. Duykers) # Vers2 (B. de Wolf) # Microb (M. Claverie)

Qubic 3D tic-tac-toe, also known by the trade name Qubic, is an abstract strategy board game, generally for two players. It is similar in concept to traditional tic-tac-toe but is played in a cubical array of cells, usually 4x4x4. Players take turns pla ...

# Qubic (A. Grigoriev) # Cube (M. Burton)

# Renju Fan (N. Alexandrov, M. Trukhan and A. Grigoriev) # XOXOXO (L. Ilkov)

# TSP (J. Homan) # Crab (G. Jacobson) # Tyler (A. Frank)

3rd Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

# Lithidion ( V. Allis and M. van der Meulen) # MyProgram (E. van Riet Paap)

# Bridge Baron (T. Throop and T. Guilfoyle) # Pupil # Bridge King (J. Leber and G. Scholz)

# The

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WK-version (E. Schroeder) # The

King (J. de Koning) # Chessplayer 2175 (C. Whittington)

Both programs were awarded the gold medal.

# Truus (S. Keetman) # Dam 1.3 (H. Jetten) # McDammen (R. P. G. van Bemmelen) Go 19×19 # Goliath (M. Boon) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) # Explorer 90 (M. Müller) Go 9×9 Explorer 90 and Go Intellect were awarded the gold medal.

# Vertex (A. Shaposhnikov and A. Nosovsky) # Neuro-GM # Stone System (N. Alexandrov, M. Trukhan and A. Grigoriev)

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# Bushy 4.0 (R. Gasser) # IIF Moris (M. Leineweber) Othello # Prothello (L. Jansen) # Mast 91 (R. Kroonenberg) # Rev91 (J. Buijs)

# QBig ( V. Allis and P. Schoo) # 3D3T (A. Grigoriev)

# Vertex (A. Shaposhnikov and A. Nosovsky) # Neuro-RN # Stone System (N. Alexandrov, M. Trukhan and A. Grigoriev)

# TSP (J. Homan) # Tyler (A. Frank)

4th Computer Olympiad

The AST 4th Computer Olympiad took place in

, UK from 5 August 1992 to 11 August 1992.

Medals awarded

# Lithidion (M. van der Meulen) (Netherlands) # Marvin (T. Lincke) (Switzerland) # Juju (United Kingdom)

# Bax (K.-U. Koschnik) (Germany) # Maestro 1.0 (J. Boyan) (United States) # Video Gammon (R. Hoogerhyde) (United States)

# Bridge King (J. Leber and G. Scholz) (Germany) # Bridge Baron (T. Throop and T. Guilfoyle) (United Kingdom) # Alpha Bridge (A. Lopatin) (Russia)

All three programs were awarded the gold medal.

# Surprise (R. Wu) (Switzerland) # Elephant (S.-H. Hsu) (Taiwan)

# Tn 83 (A. R. D. van Bergen) (Netherlands) # Dynamo (A. Millet) (United Kingdom) Gin rummy # Rummymate (Russia) # Ginny (Russia) Go 19×19 Both Archmage and Neuron were awarded the bronze medal. Go 9×9 # Go 4.3 (M. Reiss) (United Kingdom) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) # Dragon (D.-Y. Lin) (Taiwan)

Both Polygon and Neuron were awarded the silver medal. Othello # Othel du Nord (J.-C. Delbarre) (France) # Aida (J. Gnodde) (Netherlands) # JacP'Oth (P. Gailhac) (France)

# Neuron (Russia) # Zero Club (Latvia) # Xokk (Finland)

# Quetzal (T. Guilfoyle and R. Hooker) (United Kingdom) # Tyler (A. Frank) (United States) # Trouble (Netherlands)

5th Computer Olympiad

The 5th Computer Olympiad took place at Alexandra Palace, the West Hall in

, UK from 21 August 2000 to 25 August 2000. After an eight-year hiatus, it was revived by bringing it into the

. The computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons,

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, Go, Hex, Lines of Action, and shogi. The chess competition of the Computer Olympiad was a special event, since it was adopted by the ICCA as the 17th

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(WMCC 2000).

Medals awarded

Amazons (6 participants) # 8QP (J. de Koning) (Netherlands) # Yamazon (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # Anky (P. Hensgens) (Netherlands)

(2 participants) # Marvin (T. Lincke) (Switzerland) # Softwari (R. van der Goot) (Canada)

(14 participants) Go 19×19 (6 participants) # GoeMate (Z. Chen) (China) # Go4++ (M. Reiss) (United Kingdom) # Aya (H. Yamashita) (Japan) Hex (3 participants) # Hexy (V. Anshelevich) (United States) # Queenbee (J. v. Ryswyck) (Canada) # Killerbee (E. Brasa) (Italy) Lines of Action (3 participants) # YL (Y. Björnsson) (Canada) # Mona (D. Billings) (Canada) # MIA (M. Winands) (Netherlands) Shogi (3 participants) # YSS (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # Shotest 4.1 (J. Rollason) (United Kingdom) # Tacos (H. Tsuyoshi) (Japan)

6th Computer Olympiad

The CMG 6th Computer Olympiad took place at Ad Fundum of the

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from 18 August 2001 to 23 August 2001. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons,

, GIPF, Lines of Action, and shogi. The chess competition of the Computer Olympiad was a special event, since it was adopted by the ICCA as the 18th

(WMCC 2001).

Medals awarded

Amazons (4 participants) # 8QP (J. de Koning) (Netherlands) # Aska (Iida lab) (Japan) # Invader (Avetisyan) (United States)

(18 participants) # Junior (A. Ban) (Israel) # Quest (F. Morsch) (Netherlands) # Shredder (S. Meyer-Kahlen) (Germany)

(3 participants) # ELP (J-C. Chen) (Taiwan) # SG8.2 (Cheng) (Taiwan) # Abyss'99 (T. Marsland) (Canada) GIPF (2 participants) # GF1 (K. van den Branden) (Belgium) # Gipfted (D. Wentink) (Netherlands) Lines of Action (3 participants) # YL (Y. Björnsson) (Canada) # MIA II (M. Winands) (Netherlands) # Apprentice (D. Beal) (United Kingdom) Shogi (3 participants) # Shotest 5.6 (J. Rollason) (United Kingdom) # Spear (R. Grimbergen) (Netherlands/Japan) # Tacos (H. Iida) (Japan)

7th Computer Olympiad

The 7th Computer Olympiad was held in

in 2002, from 5 July until 11 July. There were 68 participants from over 13 countries. The chess event played here was adopted by the ICCA as the 10th

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Medals awarded

Amazons (6 participants) #Amazong (J. Lieberum) (Germany) #8QP (J. de Koning) (Netherlands) #Invader (Avetisyan) (United States)

(2 participants) # BGBlitz (F. Berger) (Germany) # Gnubg (A. Müller) (Germany)

(2 participants) # Wbridge5 (Costel) (France) # Jack (H. Kuijff) (Netherlands)

(18 participants) # Junior (A. Ban) (Israel) # Shredder (S. Meyer-Kahlen) (Germany) # Brutus (A. Kure) (Germany)

(4 participants) # ELP (J-C. Chen) (Taiwan) # Shiga 8.1 (S-J. Yen) (Taiwan) # Xie Xie (Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo) (France) Dots and Boxes (2 participants) # Control Freak (W. Fraser) (United States) # Seicho (H. Iida) (Japan)

(9 participants) # Dam 2.2 (H. Jetten) (Netherlands) # DIOS (C. Jurriens) (Netherlands) # Damage (B. Tuyt) (Netherlands) Go 19×19 (5 participants) # Go4++ (M. Reiss) (United Kingdom) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) # GNU Go (I. Wallin) (Sweden) Go 9×9 (4 participants) # Go4++ (M. Reiss) (United Kingdom) # GNU Go (I. Wallin) (Sweden) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) Lines of Action (4 participants) # YL (Y. Björnsson) (Canada) # MIA III (M. Winands) (Netherlands) # (T-T) (H. Iida) (Japan) Shogi (5 participants) # ISshogi (Y. Tanase) (Canada) # Kanazawa under Reiki (S. Todoroki) (Japan) # Shotest 5.6 (J. Rollason) (United Kingdom)

8th Computer Olympiad

The 8th Computer Olympiad was held November 23–27 November 2003, in Graz,

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. The Computer Olympiad was held in conjunction with the International Computer Games Association 11th

2003 and the 10th Advances in Computer Games Conference. Because of this, no medals were awarded for the two chess events.

Medals awarded

Abalone (2 participants) # AbaPro (T. Werner) (Austria) # Nacre (P. Sommerlund) (Denmark) Amazons (5 participants) #Amazong (J. Lieberum) (Germany)
Invader
(Avetisyan) (United States) #8QP (J. de Koning) (neurons)

(2 participants)
BGBlitz
(F. Berger) (Germany) # Gnubg (A. Müller) (Germany)

(5 participants) # ZMBL (Z. Tu) (China) # Xie Xie (Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo) (France) # ELP (J-C. Chen) (Taiwan) Dots and Boxes (3 participants) # Control Freak (W. Fraser) (United States) # Deep Beige (D. Bochenski) (United Kingdom) # Damepo (H. Iida) (Japan)

(4 participants) # Sjende Blyn (J. Wiersma) (Netherlands) # Dam 2.2 (H. Jetten) (Netherlands) # TD King (T. Tillemans) (Switzerland) Go 19×19 (11 participants) # GNU Go (I. Wallin) (Sweden) # GoAhead (P. Woitke) (Germany) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) Go 9×9 (10 participants) # Aya (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # NeuroGo (M. Enzenberger) (Canada) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) Hex (2 participants) # Six (G. Melis) (Hungary) # Mongoose (R. Hayward) (Canada) Lines of Action (3 participants) # MIA IV (M. Winands) (Netherlands) # BING (B. Helmstetter) (France) # (T-T) (J. Nagashima) (Japan) Poker (2 participants) # Vexbot (University of Alberta GAMES group) (Canada) # Sparbot (University of Alberta GAMES group) (Canada) Shogi (3 participants) # YSS (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # ISshogi (Y. Tanase) (Japan) # Tacos (H. Iida) (Japan)

9th Computer Olympiad

The 9th Computer Olympiad took place in

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from 3 July 2004 to 12 July 2004. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons,

, Go, Lines of Action, Hex and Octi. The event was held in conjunction with the 12th World Computer Chess Championship and Computers and Games 2004 Conference. Because of this, no medals were awarded for the two chess events. Jonathan Schaeffer and

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were the Tournament Directors.

Medals awarded

Amazons (2 participants) # 8QP (J. de Koning) (Netherlands) # TAS (Y. Higashiuchi) (Japan)

(2 participants) # Contemplation (K-C Wu) (Taiwan) # ELP (J-C. Chen) (Taiwan) Go 19×19 (5 participants) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) # The Many Faces of Go (D. Fotland) (United States) # Indigo (B. Bouzy) (France) Go 9×9 (9 participants) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) # GnuGo (

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) (international) # Magog (E. van der Werf) (Netherlands) Hex (2 participants) # Six (G. Melis) (Hungary) # Mongoose (R. Hayward) (Canada) Lines of Action (4 participants) # MIA 4++ (M. Winands) (Netherlands) # BING (B. Helmstetter) (France) # YL (Y. Björnsson) (Iceland) Octi 6×7 (2 participants) # Testme2 (J. Bacher) (Canada) # Casbah (C. Sutton) (United States)

10th Computer Olympiad

The 10th Computer Olympiad took place in

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from 3 September 2005 to 6 September 2005. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons,

, Clobber, Dots and Boxes, Computational Pool (

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), Go, and Shogi. The 11th Advances in Computer Games conference was also held at the same location and time as the Olympiad. The organizing committee for the 10th edition was: H. H. L. M. Donkers,

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, J. W. Hellemons (chair), T-s Hsu,

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, and M. Tiessen.

Medals awarded

Amazons (3 participants) # 8QP (J. de Koning) (Netherlands)
Invader
(Avetisyan) (United States) # TAS (Y. Higashiuchi) (Japan)

(14 participants) # XQMASTER (Z. Mingyang) (China) # SHIGA (S.-J. Yen) (Taiwan) # NEUCHESS (W. Jiao) (China)

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(2 participants) # MILA (M. Winands) (Netherlands) # ClobberA (J. Willemson) (Estonia) Dots and Boxes (3 participants) # Deep Beige (D. Bochenski) (United Kingdom) # Beige Watch (R. Weston) (United Kingdom) # ALSOB (P. Bailey) (United Kingdom) Go 19×19 (7 participants) # Hand Talk (C. Zhixing) (China) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) # Aya (H. Yamashita) (Japan) Go 9×9 (9 participants) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) # Aya (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # Indigo (B. Bouzy) (France)

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(4 participants) # UofA (M. Smith) (Canada) # PoolMaster (J.-F. Landry) (Canada) # Elix (M. Godard) (Canada) Shogi (4 participants) # Tacos (H. Iida) (Japan) # YSS (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # Spear (R. Grimbergen) (Japan)

Notes

Hand Talk, which won the gold medal in Computer Go, was original written in assembly language by a retired chemistry professor of

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, China.

11th Computer Olympiad

The 11th Computer Olympiad was held in

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between 25 May and 4 June 2006 in conjunction with the 14th

and the 5th Computer and Games conference (CG 2006). These events were co-hosted with the human FIDE

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Medals awarded

(2 participants) # GNU Backgammon (Müller) # BGBlitz (Berger)

(5 participants) # NeuChess (W. Jiao) (China) # Shiga (S.-J. Yen) (Taiwan) # Deep Elephant (WenJang Huang, Aja Huang, Shun Shii Lin) (Taiwan)

(3 participants) # Pan (J. De Koning) (Netherlands) # Mila (M. Winands) (Netherlands) # ClobberB (J. Willemson) (Estonia) Connect6 (3 participants) # NCTU6 (Wu and Chang) # X6 (Liou and Yen) # EVG (Huang and Hsu)

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(4 participants) # TDKing (Tillemans) (Netherlands) # SJENDE BLYN (Wiersma) (Netherlands) # Dam 2.2 (Jetten) (Netherlands) Go 19×19 (6 participants) #

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(

) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) # Indigo (B. Bouzy) (France) Go 9×9 (11 participants) # Crazy Stone ( R. Coulom) (France) # Aya (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (United States) Hex (3 participants) # Six (Melis) # Wolve (Hayward) # Hex Krieger (Rasmussen) Kriegspiel (2 participants) # Darkboard (Favini and Ciancarini) # Kbott (Parker) Lines of Action (2 participants) # MIA (Winands) # YL (Björnsson)

(5 participants) # PickPocket (Mike Smith) (Canada) # SkyNet (Will Leckie) (Canada) # Elix (Marc Godard) (Canada) Shogi (3 participants) # YSS (H. Yamashita) (Japan) # Bonanza (Hoki) (Japan) # Tacos (H. Iida) (Japan)

12th Computer Olympiad

The 12th Computer Olympiad was held in

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in conjunction with the 15th

and Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007). IBM, SARA Computing and Networking Services, and NCF (Foundation of National Computing Facilities) enabled the organization of the Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007) (15–17 June 2007), the 15th World Computer-Chess Championship (WCCC) (11–18 June) and the 12th Computer Olympiad (CO) (11–18 June), all held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: CGW2007 at the Turing hall - Z011, WCCC at Eulerzaal – Z009, and the Computer Olympiad at Newtonzaal – Z010, Science Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam.

Medals awarded

Amazons (2 participants) # 8 Queens Problem (Johann de Koning) (Netherlands) # Campya (Julien Kloetzer) (France)

(3 participants) # Bgblitz (Frank Berger) (Germany)
GNU Backgammon
# MCgammon (Guillaume Chaslot, François van Lieshout) (Belgium)

(12 participants) Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, Zappa and Loop were moved up, and GridChess and Shredder jointly awarded third place.

(5 participants) # NeuChess (Jiao Wang) (China) # Shiga (Ming-Cheng Cheng, Shi-Jim Yen) (Taiwan) # XieXie (Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo, Jih Tung Pai) (France) Connect6 (4 participants) # X6 (John Moon-Liou, Shi-Jim Yen) (Taiwan) # MeinStein (Theo van der Storm) (Netherlands) # Kavalan (Shi-Jim Yen) (Taiwan)

(7 participants) # Dam 2.2 (Harm Jetten) (NL) # TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (Switzerland) # Sjende Blyn (Jelle Wiersma) (Netherlands) Go 19×19 (8 participants)
MoGo
(Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang) (France) # Crazy Stone ( Rémi Coulom) (France) #

Go 9×9 (10 participants) # Steenvreter (Erik van der Werf) (Netherlands)
MoGo
(Sylvain Gelly) (France) # Crazy Stone (Rémi Coulom) (France) Shogi (3 participants) # Tacos (Jun Nagashima, Hiroyuki Iida, Hashimoto Tsuyoshi) (Japan) # Reiki (Satoshi Todoroki) (Japan) # HIT+SS (Shohei Seike, Takeshi Ito, Ryosuke Ohguchi) (Japan)

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(2 participants) # GoLois (Tristan Cazenave) (France) # InTheDark (Joris Bosboom) (Netherlands) Surakarta (2 participants) # SIA (Mark Winands) (Netherlands) # Incognito (Irmin Auwerda) (Netherlands)

13th Computer Olympiad

The 13th International Computer Games Championship, 16th

and a scientific conference on computer games was held in

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, China from 28 September to 5 October 2008. The location was Beijing Golden Century Golf Club, Qinglonghu Township, Fangshan District, Beijing.

Results

Amazons (4 participants) #Invader (Henry Avetisyan, Richard Lorentz) (United States) #8 Queens Problem (Johan de Koning) (Netherlands) #Campya (Julien Kloetzer) (France)

(10 participants) # Rybka (Vasik Rajlich, Jeroen Nooman) (United States) # HIARCS (Mark Uniacke, Eric Hallsworth) (United Kingdom) #

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(Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky) (Israel) #Cluster

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(Thomas Gaksch, Fabien Letouzy et al.) (Germany) Rybka was retroactively disqualified from all WCCC events in 2011 due to findings of plagiarism. Thus, Cluster Toga was awarded a bronze medal, and the other two winners were upgraded. Speed chess (10 participants) # Sjeng (

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) (Belgium) # Rybka (Vasik Rajlich, Jeroen Nooman) (United States) # HIARCS (Mark Uniacke, Eric Hallsworth) (United Kingdom) # Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (Germany) Rybka was retroactively disqualified from all WCCC events in 2011 due to findings of plagiarism.

(18 participants) #Intella (Chaoying Chen, Yutao Wei) (China) #Cyclone (Min Zhang) (China) #EThinker (Zheng Xu) (China) Connect6 (10 participants) #NCTU6-Lite (Ping-Hung Lin, Hong-Xuan Lin, Yi-Chih Chan, Ching-Ping Chen, I-Chen Wu) (Taiwan) #Bitstronger (Li Liang, Cui Hao, Wang Ruijian, Lin Siran) (China) #NEUConn6 (Chang-Ming Xu) (China) Dots and Boxes (3 participants) #The Shark (William Fraser) (United States) #Qiyi (Lian Lian) (China) #Matadots (Phillip Rogers, Richard Lorentz) (United States)

(2 participants) #TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (Switzerland) #Rocky (Mark Winands) (Netherlands) Go (13 participants) #The Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (United States) #MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang) (France) # Leela (

) (Belgium) Go (9×9) (18 participants) #The Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (United States) #Leela (Gian-Carlo Pascutto) (Belgium) #MoGo (Oliver Teytaud, Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang) (France) Hex (4 participants) #Wolve (Broderick Arneson) (Canada) #MoHex (Philip Henderson) (Canada) #Six (Gábor Melis) (Hungary) Computational pool (4 participants) #CueCard (David Cohen, Chris Archibald, Alon Altman) (United States) #PickPocket (Mike Smith) (Canada) #Elix (Marc Godard) (Canada) Shogi (3 participants) #Tacos (Hashimoto Tsuyoshi, Masafumi Taketoshi, Jun Nagashima, Junichi Hashimoto, Tokishi Matsui, Hiroyuki Iida) (Japan) #BitStronger (Li Xiao, Ma Junlong, Xu Changda, Tong Songling) (China) #HIT+SS (Shohei Seike, Takeshi Ito, Ryosuke Ohguchi) (Capitan)

(3 participants) #GoLois (Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau) (France) #Chinese Deep (Cui Hao) (China) #BitStronger (Li Liang, Cui Hao, Wang Ruijian, Lin Siran) (China) Surakarta (2 participants) #SIA (Mark Winands) (Netherlands) #BitStronger (Qiao Zhi, Sun Zhen, Tao Hongru) (China)

14th Computer Olympiad

The 14th Computer Olympiad, 17th

and a scientific conference on computer games was held in

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, 10–18 May 2009.

World Computer Chess Championship

(10 participants) Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, the Championship title was awarded jointly to Deep Sjeng, Shredder, and Junior. Chess (Blitz) (9 participants) # Rybka (Vasik Rajlich) (United States) # Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (Germany) Likewise, the Blitz Championship title was awarded to Shredder.

Medals awarded (Computer Olympiad)

Amazons (4 participants) #Invader (Richard Lorentz, Dan Dennison, Archie Huerto, Monica Reiss, Akop Karapetyan, Henry Avetisyan) (United States) #8 Queens Problem (Johan de Koning) (Netherlands) #Campya (Julien Kloetzer) (France) Chess (no hardware limits) (6 participants) # Rybka (Vasik Rajlich) (United States) # Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen) (Germany) # Deep Sjeng (

) (Belgium) #Pandix (Gyula Horváth) (Hungary)

Chinese Chess ''Xiangqi'' (; ), also called Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. ''Xiangqi'' is in the same family of games as ''shogi'', ''janggi'', Western chess, ''chatu ...

(5 participants) #TMSK (Bing-Jie Shen, Ruei-Ping Li, Tsan-Sheng Hsu) (Taiwan) #HaQiKi D (Harm Geert Muller) (Netherlands) #Chimo (Wen-Jie Tseng, Wei-Lun Kao, Hung-Hsuan Lin, Chun-Bin Hsu, I-Chen Wu, Shun-Chin Hsu) (Taiwan) Connect6 (6 participants) #Bit (Li Liang, Cui Hao, Wang Ruijian, Lin Siran) (China) #MeinStein (Theo van der Storm) (Netherlands) #Bit2 (Zhifeng Tang, Zhenghan Li, Haiying Liu, Jie BingChang-Ming Xu) (China)

(3 participants) #TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (Switzerland) #Tornado (Frank Mesander) (Netherlands) #Rocky (Mark Winands) (Netherlands) Go (6 participants) #

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(Yamato) (Japan) #Fuego (Markus Enzenberger, Martin Müller, Broderick Arneson, Richard Segal, Gerald Tesauro) (Canada) #MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang, Olivier Teytaud, Jean-Baptiste Hoock, Guillaume Chaslot, Arpad Rimmel) (France) Go (9×9) (9 participants) #Fuego (Markus Enzenberger, Martin Müller, Broderick Arneson, Richard Segal, Gerald Tesauro) (Canada) #MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang, Olivier Teytaud, Jean-Baptiste Hoock, Guillaume Chaslot, Arpad Rimmel) (France) #Yogo (Ping Yu, Fan Xie) (China) Hex (4 participants) #MoHex (Philip Henderson, Broderick Arneson, Ryan Hayward) (Canada) #Wolve (Ryan Hayward, Broderick Arneson, Philip Henderson, Michael Johanson, Morgan Kan, Martin Müller, Geoff Ryan) (Canada) #Six (Gábor Melis) (Hungary) Lines of Action (2 participants) #Mia 4.51 (Mark Winands) (Netherlands) #Bit (Peixing Zhan) (China) Shogi (2 participants) #Tacos (Hashimoto Tsuyoshi, Masafumi Taketoshi, Jun Nagashima, Junichi Hashimoto, Tokishi Matsui, Hiroyuki Iida) (Japan) #BitStronger (Changda Xu, Li Xiao, Ma Junlong, Tong SonglingPeixing Zhan) (China) Havannah (2 participants) #Wanderer (Richard Lorentz, Roberto Nahue) (United States) #Shakti (Fabien Teytaud, Olivier Teytaud) (France) KriegSpiel (3 participants) #Darkboard (Giampiero Favini, Paolo Ciancarini) (Italy) #KriegExpert (Levi Self) (Namibia) #Bit (China) Phantom Go (2 participants) #GoLois (Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau) (France) #Bit (Li Liang, Cui Hao, Wang Ruijian, Lin Siran) (China)

15th Computer Olympiad

The 15th Computer Olympiad, 18th

and a scientific conference on computer games was held in

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, Japan, 24 September to 2 October 2010.

World Computer Chess Championship

(10 participants) Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, the Championship title was awarded jointly to Rondo and Thinker. Shredder was given third place. Chess (Software) (9 participants) # Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (Germany) #

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(Anthony Cozzie, Zach Wegner) (United States) #Thinker (Kerwin Medina) (United States) Chess (Blitz) Likewise, Jonny and Shredder were awarded the blitz championship after Rybka's disqualification.

Medals awarded (Computer Olympiad)

Amazons (7 participants) *(winners unknown)

(5 participants) #Shiga (Ming-Cheng Cheng, Shi-Jim Yen) (Taiwan) #TMSK (Bing-Jie Shen, Ruei-Ping Li, Tsan-Sheng Hsu) (Taiwan) #Chimo (Wen-Jie Tseng, Wei-Lun Kao, Hung-Hsuan Lin, Chun-Bin Hsu, I-Chen Wu, Shun-Chin Hsu) (Taiwan) Chinese dark chess (6 participants) *(winners unknown)

(1 participant) #Pan.exe (Johan de Koning) (Netherlands) Pan.exe won by default, as there were no other entrants. Connect6 (8 participants) *(winners unknown) Dots and Boxes (2 participants) #The Shark (William Fraser) (United States) #BITPanda (Xiong Yanchao, Zhang Yuting) (Switzerland)

(2 participants) #TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (Switzerland) #Rocky (Mark Winands) (Netherlands) Go (8 participants) #Erica (Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom) (Taiwan) #

(Yamato) (Japan) #Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (United States) Go (13x13) (10 participants) #Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (United States) #Fuego (Markus Enzenberger, Martin Müller, Broderick Arneson, Richard Segal, Gerald Tesauro, Arpad Rimmel) (Canada) #MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang, Olivier Teytaud, Jean-Baptiste Hoock, Guillaume Chaslot, Arpad Rimmel) (France) Go (9×9) (14 participants) #MyGoFriend (Frank Karger) (United Kingdom) #Fuego (Markus Enzenberger, Martin Müller, Broderick Arneson, Richard Segal, Gerald Tesauro) (Canada) #Erica (Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom) (Taiwan) Hex (5 participants) *(winners unknown) Shogi (9 participants) #Gekisashi (Takashi Maruyama, Takumi Ouchi, Ryuji Takase, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Daisaku Yokoyama) (Japan) #Shueso (Akira Takeuchi) (Japan) #GPS Shogi (Tetsuro Tanaka) (Japan)

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(9 participants) #Clair 1/128 (Takuya Obata) (Japan) #Shokidoki 0.8 (Harm Geert Muller) (Netherlands) #55TACOS (Tsuyoshi Hashimoto) (Japan) Havannah (5 participants) *(winners unknown) Light Up (2 participants) Cpuzzler was awarded the silver medal. Nonograms (2 participants) Cpuzzler was awarded the bronze medal. Nurikabe (3 participants) Cpuzzler (Shi-Yuan Chiu) (Taiwan), Enigma (Jr-Chang Chen, Chou Cheng-Wei) (Taiwan), (Derjhong Sun, I-Chen Wu) (Taiwan) *(winners unknown) Phantom Go (3 participants) GoLois (Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau) (FRA), Moccos (Takuma Toyoda) (Japan), IcySoftwoodWine (Yuji Abe) (Japan) *(scores unknown) Quoridor (4 participants) *(winners unknown) Surakarta (3 participants) #SIA (Mark Winands) (Netherlands) #Qiyi (Jiajia Guo, Xiaomeng Yang, Liang Yunzhao, Jianbo Zhao) (China) #BITPanda (Xiong Yanchao, Zhang Yuting) (China)

16th Computer Olympiad

The 16th International Computer Games Championship, 19th

and a scientific conference on computer games was held in

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. The events took place from 18 November to 26 November 2011. The venue was the

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Planned competitions

Amazons (4)

(3)

(

) (9 Unrestricted, 5 Software, and

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divisions) Clobber (2)

(3) Chinese dark chess (4) Connect6 (6) Dots and Boxes (2)

(6) EinStein würfelt nicht! (6) Go 19×19 (8) Go 9×9 (7) Go 13×13 (6) NoGo (4) Phantom Go (2) Havannah (3) Hex (3) Shogi (3) Surakarta (2)

17th Computer Olympiad

The 17th International Computer Games Championship, 20th

and a scientific conference on computer games was held in

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, Japan from 12 August to 18 August 2013. The venue was the Collaboration Complex at Keio University Hiyoshi Campus.

Competitions and medals awarded

* Amazons *

(

) *

* Chinese Dark Chess *# DarkKnight *# Yahari *# Observer *

Chu Shogi Chu shogi ( or Middle Shogi) is a Abstract strategy game, strategy board game native to Japan. It is similar to modern shogi (sometimes called Japanese chess) in its rules and gameplay. Its name means "mid-sized shogi", from a time when there wer ...

*# HaChu *# Deep Nikita *

(10×10) *# Pan *# McClobber *# Deep Nikita * Connect 6 * Dots and Boxes *# BITDB *# Railgun * EinStein würfelt nicht! *# Prophet_WT *# VS_WTN *# Cloud *

* Go (19×19, 13×13, and 9×9) * Hex * Mahjong *# ThousandWind *# Majo *# Longcat *# Grandslam * Lines of Action *# MC-LOA *# Deep Nikita *

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s *

* Shogi * Shogi (5×5) *# Shokidoki *# 1/128 Rigan *# Mattari Yuuchan * Surakarta *# SIA *# BITSKT *# Deep Nikita

18th Computer Olympiad

The 18th International Computer Games Championship was held in

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, Amsterdam from 29 June to 6 July 2015. Organised by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS). The venue was Leiden University.

Competitions and medals awarded

The following are the competitions in the 18th Computer Olympiad. * 2048 *# 2048-khyeh *# 2048-ghung *# 20486 * Amazons *

(

) *

*# Shiga *# Chimo *# Shark * Chinese Dark Chess *

(10x10) *# 8QP *# Deep Nikita * Connect 6 * Diplomacy *# D-Brane (Dave de Jonghe) *# DipBlue (Henrique Lopez Cardoso) *# Super Bot (Martin Borgt) * Dots and Boxes * EinStein würfelt nicht! *# Hanfried *# Deep Nikita *# Chinese Program *

*# Scan (Fabien Letouzey) *# Damage (Bert Tuyt) *# JDraughts (Ron van Bemmelen) * Go 19×19 *#

*# Abakus *# Nomitan * Go 13×13 *# Zen *# Nomitan *# Abakus * Go 9×9 *# Zen *# Abakus *# CGI * Hex * Mahjong *# VeryLongCat *# ThousandWind *# Take * Lines of Action *# SIA *# Deep Nikita *

* Othello *# Limsup *# Mothello *# Maverick *

* Shogi * Shogi (5×5) * Surakarta

19th Computer Olympiad

The 19th International Computer Games Championship, a scientific conference on computer games was held in

, Amsterdam from 27 June to 3 July 2016. Organised by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS). The venue was Leiden University

20th Computer Olympiad

The 20th International Computer Games Championship, a scientific conference on computer games was held in

, Amsterdam from 1 July to 7 July 2017. Organised by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS). The venue was Leiden University

21st Computer Olympiad

The Computer Olympiad took place from 7 to 13 July 2018 and the 10th International Conference on Computers and Games (CG2018) from 9 to 11 July in

, Taiwan. The

s 2018 took place from 13 to 19 July in Stockholm, Sweden.

22nd Computer Olympiad

The Computer Olympiad took place from 11 to 17 August 2019 in

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SAR, China.

Competitions and medals awarded

The following are the competitions in the 22nd Computer Olympiad. * Amazons *# SherlockGo – Liang Tailin (Univ of Science and Technology Beijing) *# BIT_Amazons – Chai Zenghao (Beijing Institute of Technology) *# Queen – Tristan Cazenave (LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL) * Block Go *# NDHU-Polygames – Hsin-I Lin (National Dong Hwa University) *# miny_blockgo – Yi-Ling Chen (National Dong Hwa University) * Breakthrough *# Deep Nikita – Andrew Lin (Washington Technology University) *# TakeABreak – Tristan Cazenave (LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL) *# BT – Yen-Chi Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) * Chinese checkers *# Jump – Jiunn-Haur Chern (National Taiwan Normal University) *# NDHU-Polygames – Hsin-I Lin (National Taiwan Normal University) *# Negentropy – Lu-Nung Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) *

*# BugCChess – Liu Zong Yuan *# SHIGA – Shi-Jim Yen (National Dong Hwa University) *# Xiexie – Pascal Tang * Chinese Dark Chess *# Yahari – Hsuan-Yu Wang (National Taipei University and Academia Sinica) *# PupilDarkChess – Hsin-I Lin (National Taipei University and Academia Sinica) *# Yanyu 2.0 – Hsuan-Yu Wang (National Taipei University and Academia Sinica) * Connect 6 *# BIT_Connect6 – Chai Zenghao (Beijing Institute of Technology) *# Kavalan – Jung-Kuei Yang (Lan Yang Institute of Technology) *# Zeta – Chen Zhang (DSGROUP) * Dice-shogi *# Nyanpass – Hsuan-Yu Wang (National Taipei University) *# Deep Nikita – Andrew Lin (Washington Technology University) *# NDHU-Polygames – Hsin-I Lin (National Taiwan Normal University) *

*# BIT_Draught – Han Youfang (Beijing Institute of Technology) *# miny_draught – Yi-Ling Chen (National Dong Hwa University) * Einstein Würfelt Nicht *# EWIN – Roger Chu (National Chiao Tung University) *# VSWTN – Zhang Yun Peng (University of Science and Technology Beijing) *# BIT_Einstein – Hon Jiacheng (Beijing Institute of Technology) * Fighting Landlord *# I'm a Famer – Wu Yu (Chongqing Three Gorges University) *# Knight-Landlord – Wang Tang (Chongqing University of Technology) *# JAIST_landlord – Xiao Yuhao (JAIST) * Go 9×9 *# CGI Go Intelligence – Ting-han Wei (National Chiao Tung University) *# EzGo – Lin, Ting Yu (Chang Yuan Christian University) * Hex 11×11 *# BIT_Hex11 – Zhu Jie (Beijing Institute of Technology) *# Calainosaur – Fabien Teytaud (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, LISIC) * Hex 13×13 *# DeepEZO – Masahito Yamamoto (Hokaido University) *# BIT_Hex13 – Zhu Jie (Beijing Institute of Technology) *# Calainosaur – Fabien Teytaud (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, LISIC) *

Kyoto Shogi is a modern variant of shogi (Japanese chess). It was invented by Tamiya Katsuya c. 1976. Kyoto shogi is played like standard shogi, but with a reduced number of pieces on a 5×5 board. However, the pieces alternately promote and demote with e ...

*# Deep Nikita – Andrew Lin (Washington Technology University) *# CrazyWa – Harm Geert Muller * Mahjong *# MahjongJr – Yen-Chi Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) *# ZONST Tree – Ren Hang (ZONST Data Group) *# SimCat – Shi-Chieh Tang (National Chiao Tung University) * Shogi (5×5) *# Nyanpass – Hsuan-Yu Wang (National Taipei University) *# Shokidoki – Harm Geert Muller *# EVG1.5 – Shun-Chin Hsu (Chang-Jung Christian University) *

*# CZF – Li Cheng Lan (National Chiao Tung University) *# Deep Nikita – Andrew Lin (Washington Technology University) *# Noeven – Chen Zhang (DSGROUP) *

*# Requiem – Yen-Chi Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) *# The Heir – Yan-Rong Guo (National Taichung Univ of Education) *# Uncertainty – Yan-Rong Guo (National Taichung Univ of Education) * Othello *# Othello LTBeL – Yen Shi-Jim (National Dong Hwa University) *# Royal – Chang Na-Yuan (National Taiwan Normal University) *# Curiosity10 – Wei-Yuan Hsu (National Chiao Tung University) * Surakarta *# Deep Nikita – Andrew Lin (Washington Technology University) *# FuChou – Yen-Chi Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) *# VSSurakarta – Zhang Pei (Univ of Science and Technology Beijing)

23rd, 24th and 25th Computer Olympiad

The 23rd, 24th and 25th International Computer Games Championship (2020-2022) were held online.

Summary by game

Abalone

Abalone is a strategy game using a hexagonal patterned board with 14 marbles for each of two players. The objective is to push six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board.

Amazons

Amazons is played on a 10×10 chessboard by two players each with four '' amazons'' (queen chess pieces). Moves are made to block squares and the winner is the last player able to move his pieces to an unblocked square.

Awari

Awari is an abstract strategy game among the

Mancala The mancala games are a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some ...

family of board games (pit and pebble games).

Backgammon

Backgammon is a board game for two players where the checker-like playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice; a player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board before his opponent.

Bridge

Bridge is a trick-taking card game for four players. Bridge participation in the Computer Olympiad was largely discontinued when in 1996 the

American Contract Bridge League The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain th ...

established a new official World Computer Bridge Championship, to be run annually at a major bridge tournament. Starting in 1999, that event is now co-sponsored by the World Bridge Federation.

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a checkered game-board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player begins with 16 pieces of varying characteristics, the objective being to capture one's opponent's king piece. Many computer-versus-computer events are held beyond those of the Computer Olympiad.Other computer-versus-computer events in chess: *

** World Chess Software Championship **

World Computer Speed Chess Championship World Computer Speed Chess Championship is an annual event organized by the International Computer Games Association where computer chess engines compete against each other at blitz chess time controls. It is held in conjunction with the World Co ...

* North American Computer Chess Championship *

Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship The Dutch pencomputer chess championship was a chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometim ...

Thoresen Chess Engines Competition Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since 2010. It was organized, directed, and hosted by Martin Thoresen until the end of Season 6; f ...

International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship The International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship was an annual chess tournament for computer chess programs held from 1991 until 2007. It was organized by the University of Paderborn Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) ...

* Internet Computer Chess Tournament

Chinese chess

Chinese chess is a strategy board game for two players from the same family as western or international chess. Known primarily as

Xiangqi ''Xiangqi'' (; ), also called Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. ''Xiangqi'' is in the same family of games as '' shogi'', '' janggi'', Western chess, '' c ...

internationally, the game is referred to as Chinese chess in the Computer Olympiad competitions.

Chinese dark chess

Chinese dark chess is known as Banqi in Chinese.

Clobber

Connect Four

Connect6

Dominoes

Gin rummy

GIPF

Octi

Octi is an abstract strategy game with similarities to checkers and chess but allowing for multiple jumping, capturing, and special movement of pieces. The object of the game is to move one's pieces into the opponent's starting points.

Poker

Pool

Also known as computational pool.

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Results of all events

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History

Games contested

1st Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

2nd Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

3rd Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

4th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

5th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

6th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

7th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

8th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

9th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

10th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

Notes

11th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

12th Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

13th Computer Olympiad

Results

14th Computer Olympiad

World Computer Chess Championship

Medals awarded (Computer Olympiad)

15th Computer Olympiad

World Computer Chess Championship

Medals awarded (Computer Olympiad)

16th Computer Olympiad

Planned competitions

17th Computer Olympiad

Competitions and medals awarded

18th Computer Olympiad

Competitions and medals awarded

19th Computer Olympiad

20th Computer Olympiad

21st Computer Olympiad

22nd Computer Olympiad

Competitions and medals awarded

23rd, 24th and 25th Computer Olympiad

Summary by game

Abalone

Amazons

Awari

Backgammon

Bridge

Chess

Chinese chess

Chinese dark chess

Clobber

Connect Four

Connect6

Dominoes

Gin rummy

GIPF

Octi

Poker

Pool

See also

References

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