10th Computer Olympiad
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The 10th Computer Olympiad took place in Taipei
, Taiwan
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
, Chinese Chess, Clobber, Dots and Boxes
, Computational Pool (billiards
), Go
, and Shogi
.
The 11th Advances in Computer Games 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, M. Greenspan, J.W. Hellemons (chair), T-s Hsu, H.J. van den Herik, and M. Tiessen.
Chinese Chess (14 participants)
Clobber
(2 participants)
Dots and Boxes
(3 participants)
Go
19×19 (7 participants)
Go
9×9 (9 participants)
Pool
(4 participants)
Shogi
(4 participants)
by a retired chemistry professor of Sun Yat-sen University
, China.
Taipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
from 3 September 2005 to 6 September 2005. As with each year's Computer Olympiad
Computer Olympiad
The Computer Olympiads are a multi-games event taking place every year in which computer programs compete against each other. The majority of the games are board games but other games such as Bridge take place as well...
, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons
Amazons
The Amazons are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia...
, Chinese Chess, Clobber, Dots and Boxes
Dots and Boxes
Dots and Boxes is a pencil and paper game for two players first published in 1889 by Édouard Lucas.Starting with an empty grid of dots, players take turns, adding a single...
, Computational Pool (billiards
Billiards
Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...
), Go
Go (board game)
Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...
, and Shogi
Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan...
.
The 11th Advances in Computer Games 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, M. Greenspan, J.W. Hellemons (chair), T-s Hsu, H.J. van den Herik, and M. Tiessen.
Medals Awarded
Amazons (3 participants)- 8QP (J. de Koning) (NL)
- Invader (Avetisyan) (USA)
- TAS (Y. Higashiuchi) (JAP)
Chinese Chess (14 participants)
- XQMASTER (Z. Mingyang) (China)
- SHIGA (S.-J. Yen) (Taiwan)
- NEUCHESS (W. Jiao) (China)
Clobber
Clobber
Clobber is an abstract strategy game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theorists Michael H. Albert, J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski. It has subsequently been studied by Elwyn Berlekamp and Erik Demaine among others...
(2 participants)
- MILA (M. Winands) (NL)
- ClobberA (J. Willemson) (Estonia)
Dots and Boxes
Dots and Boxes
Dots and Boxes is a pencil and paper game for two players first published in 1889 by Édouard Lucas.Starting with an empty grid of dots, players take turns, adding a single...
(3 participants)
- Deep Beige (D. Bochenski) (UK)
- Beige Watch (R. Weston) (UK)
- ALSOB (P. Bailey) (UK)
Go
Go (board game)
Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...
19×19 (7 participants)
- Hand Talk (C. Zhixing) (China)
- Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
- Aya (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
Go
Go (board game)
Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...
9×9 (9 participants)
- Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
- Aya (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
- Indigo (B. Bouzy) (FRA)
Pool
Billiards
Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...
(4 participants)
- UofA (M. Smith) (CAN)
- PoolMaster (J.-F. Landry) (CAN)
- Elix (M. Godard) (CAN)
Shogi
Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan...
(4 participants)
- Tacos (H. Iida) (JAP)
- YSS (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
- Spear (R. Grimbergen) (JAP)
Trivia
Hand Talk, which won the Gold medal in Computer Go, was original written in assembly languageAssembly language
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...
by a retired chemistry professor of Sun Yat-sen University
Sun Yat-sen University
Sun Yat-sen University, also unofficially referred to as Zhongshan University , is a prominent university located mainly in Guangzhou, China. The University is named after Dr...
, China.