12th Computer Olympiad

[ICGABOK]

Call For Participation: 15th WCCC and 12th Computer Olympiad

The 15th World Computer-Chess Championship and the 12th Computer Olympiad will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in conjunction with the Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007).

IBM, SARA (Academic Computer Centre Amsterdam) and NCF (Foundation of National Computing Facilities) are enabling 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) to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Location: The Turing hall, Science Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 419, 1098 VA Amsterdam.

Below we mention 27 different games for which a program can be submitted to the Olympiad.

Abalone
Amazons
Arimaa
Backgammon
Bao
Bridge
Chinese Chess
8x8 Checkers
Clobber
Computational Pool
Diplomacy
Dominoes
Dots and Boxes
10x10 Draughts
Gipf
Go
9x9 Go
Hex
Kriegspiel
Lines of Action
6x7 OCTI
9x9 OCTI
Othello
Poker
Renju
Scrabble
Shogi

The game of Renju, claimed to be solved, is still welcome since we have not seen a fully-operational program on internet that plays perfectly. Moreover, we are willing to host more games, such as Ataxx, Dvonn, Mediocrity, Onyx, Tamsk, TwixT and Zèrtz but we do not know of the existence of adequately playing programs. We are awaiting suggestions and proposals of programmers before we include them in the official list given above.

For each game a tournament will take place provided that at least two programs enter the tournament for that particular game. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be awarded to the leading programs in each tournament.

The Tournament Director of the WCCC and Computer Olympiad will be: H.J. van den Herik.

The rules of the WCCC and Computer Olympiad will be soon published.

The entry fees for the WCCC are as follows:

Amateur: € 25
Semi-professional: € 250
Professional: € 500

The entry fees for the other tournaments are as follows:

Amateur: € 25
Semi-professional: € 100
Professional: € 250

A participant is expected to be ICGA member (€ 40).

Deadline early registration: May 21, 2007.
Registration after May 21, 2007 will double the entry fee.

"Amateur": programmers who have no commercial interest in their program, and are not professional game programmers. Applications for amateur classification must supply information to justify their claim.

"Semi-professional": Any program submitted by an employee or associate from a games-programming company. The program's name must not be derived from or similar to a commercial product.

"Professional": A program whose name is the same as or derived from a commercial product.

www.icga.org

[Jack Lad]

The game of Renju, claimed to be solved, is still welcome since we have not seen a fully-operational program on internet that plays perfectly.

Perhaps you should replace it with Connect6 instead.

Also since you include Bridge then how about Black Maria, Clumond, Ninety-Nine, Skat, Piquet, Bezique and Klabberjass too.

[ICGABOK]

The game of Renju, claimed to be solved, is still welcome since we have not seen a fully-operational program on internet that plays perfectly.

Perhaps you should replace it with Connect6 instead.

Thanks for pointing out the ommission. Connect6 was played last year: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/game.php?id=18

For more info go to: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/event.php?id=40

Mark

[smrf]

There are a lot of games, but why not such playing 10x8 extensions downwards compatible to traditional chess like Capablanca Random Chess, Embassy Chess or Optimized Chess?

There are at least two programs playing such variants, and including 10x8 variants to such tournaments would probably do well to the related programmers' scene, soon generating additional related Fullchess compatible approaches.

Despite of that I do not fully understand the rules of this Olympiad nor its definition of amateurs.

Reinhard.