The 13th International Computer Games Championship

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...

, 16th World Computer Chess Championship

World Computer Chess Championship

World Computer Chess Championship is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is organized by the International Computer Games Association...

 and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Beijing

Beijing

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, China

China

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

Results

Amazons

Game of the Amazons

The Game of the Amazons is a two-player abstract strategy game invented in 1988 by Walter Zamkauskas of Argentina. It is a member of the territorial game family, a distant relative of Go and chess...

 (4 participants)

1. Invader (Henry Avetisyan, Richard Lorentz) (USA)
2. 8 Queens Problem (Johan de Koning) (NLD)
3. Campya (Julien Kloetzer) (FRA)

Chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 (10 participants)

1. Rybka
   Rybka
   Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich. , Rybka is one of the top-rated engines on chess engine rating lists and has won many computer chess tournaments...
   
    (Vasik Rajlich, Jeroen Nooman) (USA)
2. HIARCS
   HIARCS
   HIARCS is a commercial computer chess program developed by Mark Uniacke. Its name is an acronym stands for higher intelligence auto response chess system.-Overview:...
   
    (Mark Uniacke, Eric Hallsworth) (GBR)
3. Junior
   Junior (chess)
   Junior is a computer chess program authored by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky. Grandmaster Boris Alterman assisted, in particular with the opening book...
   
    (Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky) (ISR)
4. Cluster Toga
   Toga
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    (Thomas Gaksch, Fabien Letouzy...) (DE)

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)

1. Sjeng (Gian-Carlo Pascutto) (BEL)
2. Rybka
   Rybka
   Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich. , Rybka is one of the top-rated engines on chess engine rating lists and has won many computer chess tournaments...
   
    (Vasik Rajlich, Jeroen Nooman) (USA)
3. HIARCS
   HIARCS
   HIARCS is a commercial computer chess program developed by Mark Uniacke. Its name is an acronym stands for higher intelligence auto response chess system.-Overview:...
   
    (Mark Uniacke, Eric Hallsworth) (GBR)
4. Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (DE)

Rybka was retroactively disqualified from all WCCC events in 2011 due to findings of plagiarism.

Chinese Chess

Xiangqi

Xiangqi is a two-player Chinese board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, shogi, Indian chess and janggi. The present-day form of Xiangqi originated in China and is therefore commonly called Chinese chess in English. Xiangqi is one of the most popular board games in China...

 (18 participants)

1. Intella (Chaoying Chen, Yutao Wei) (CHN)
2. Cyclone (Min Zhang) (CHN)
3. EThinker (Zheng Xu) (CHN)

Connect6

Connect6

Connect6 introduced in 2003 by Professor I-Chen Wu at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, is a two-player game similar to Gomoku....

 (10 participants)

1. NCTU6-Lite (Ping-Hung Lin, Hong-Xuan Lin, Yi-Chih Chan, Ching-Ping Chen, I-Chen Wu) (TWN)
2. Bitstronger (Li Liang, Cui Hao, Wang Ruijian, Lin Siran) (CHN)
3. NEUConn6 (Chang-Ming Xu) (CHN)

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)

1. The Shark (William Fraser) (USA)
2. Qiyi (Lian Lian) (CHN)
3. Matadots (Phillip Rogers, Richard Lorentz) (USA)

International draughts

International draughts

International draughts is a board game, one of the variants of draughts. It is played on a 10×10 board with alternatingly dark and light squares, of which only the 50 dark ones are used. There are two players on opposite sides, with 20 pieces each, light for one player and dark for the other...

 (2 participants)

1. TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (CHE)
2. Rocky (Mark Winands) (NLD)

Go (13 participants)

1. The Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (USA)
2. MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang) (FRA)
3. Leela (Gian-Carlo Pascutto) (BEL)

Go (9x9) (18 participants)

1. The Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (USA)
2. Leela (Gian-Carlo Pascutto) (BEL)
3. MoGo (Oliver Teytaud, Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang) (FRA)

Hex

Hex (board game)

Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11x11 rhombus. Other popular dimensions are 13x13 and 19x19 as a result of the game's relationship to the older game of Go...

 (4 participants)

1. Wolve (Broderick Arneson) (CAN)
2. MoHex (Philip Henderson) (CAN)
3. Six (Gábor Melis) (HUN)

Computational 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)

1. CueCard (David Cohen, Chris Archibald, Alon Altman) (USA)
2. PickPocket (Mike Smith) (CAN)
3. Elix (Marc 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...

 (3 participants)

1. Tacos (Hashimoto Tsuyoshi, Masafumi Taketoshi, Jun Nagashima, Junichi Hashimoto, Tokishi Matsui, Hiroyuki Iida) (JPN)
2. BitStronger (Li Xiao, Ma Junlong, Xu Changda, Tong Songling) (CHN)
3. HIT+SS (Shohei Seike, Takeshi Ito, Ryosuke Ohguchi) (JPN)

Phantom Go (3 participants)

1. GoLois (Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau) (FRA)
2. Chinese Deep (Cui Hao) (CHN)
3. BitStronger (Li Liang, Cui Hao, Wang Ruijian, Lin Siran) (CHN)

Surakarta

Surakarta (game)

Surakarta is a little-known Indonesian abstract strategy game for two players, named after the ancient city of Surakarta in central Java. The game features an unusual method of capture which is "possibly unique" and "not known to exist in any other recorded board game."Surakarta is also among the...

(2 participants)

1. SIA (Mark Winands) (NLD)
2. BitStronger (Qiao Zhi, Sun Zhen, Tao Hongru) (CHN)

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