The 3rd Computer Olympiad took place in Maastricht

Maastricht

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...

, The Netherlands, from 22 to 25 August 1991. 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 Awari, Bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

, 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...

, Chinese Chess, Draughts

Draughts

Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...

, Go

Go (board game)

Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...

, Go-Moku, Nine Men's Morris

Nine Men's Morris

Nine Men's Morris is an abstract strategy board game for two players that emerged from the Roman Empire. The game is also known as Nine Man Morris, Mill, Mills, Merels, Merelles, and Merrills in English....

, Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

, Qubic

Qubic

Qubic is the brand name of a four-in-a-row game played in a 4×4×4 matrix sold by Parker Brothers starting in 1953. The original box, and the 1972 reissue, described the game as "Parker Brothers 3D Tic Tac Toe Game." Players take turn placing pieces to get four in a row horizontally or...

, Renju

Renju

Renju is the professional variant of Gomoku, a board game originated from Japan in Heian Period. It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou . It is played with black and white stones on a 15x15 intersection Go board...

 and Scrabble

Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...

.

Medals awarded

Awari

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

Bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

1. Bridge Baron (T. Throop and T. Guilfoyle)
2. Pupil
3. Bridge King (J. Leber and G. Scholz)

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...

1. The ChessMachine
   Chessmachine
   The ChessMachine was a chess computer sold between 1991 and 1995 by TASC . It was unique at the time for incorporating both an ARM2 coprocessor for the chess engine on an ISA card which plugged into a IBM PC and a software interface running on the PC to display a chess board and control the engine...
   
    WK-version (E. Schroeder)
2. The ChessMachine
   Chessmachine
   The ChessMachine was a chess computer sold between 1991 and 1995 by TASC . It was unique at the time for incorporating both an ARM2 coprocessor for the chess engine on an ISA card which plugged into a IBM PC and a software interface running on the PC to display a chess board and control the engine...
   
    King (J. de Koning)
3. Chessplayer 2175 (C. Whittington)

Chinese Chess

1. Abyss (C. Ye) 1. Surprise (R. Wu)

Both programs were awarded the gold medal

Draughts

Draughts

Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...

1. Truus (S. Keetman)
2. Dam 1.3 (H. Jetten)
3. McDammen (R.P.G. van Bemmelen)

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

1. Goliath (M. Boon)
2. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen)
3. Explorer 90 (M. Müller)

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

1. Explorer 90 (M. Müller) 1. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) 3. Goliath (M. Boon)

Explorer 90 and Go Intellect were awarded the gold medal.

Go-Moku

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

Nine Men's Morris

Nine Men's Morris

Nine Men's Morris is an abstract strategy board game for two players that emerged from the Roman Empire. The game is also known as Nine Man Morris, Mill, Mills, Merels, Merelles, and Merrills in English....

1. Bushy 4.0 (R. Gasser)
2. IIF Moris (M. Leineweber)

Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

1. Prothello (L. Jansen)
2. Mast 91 (R. Kroonenberg)
3. Rev91 (J. Buijs)

Qubic

Qubic

Qubic is the brand name of a four-in-a-row game played in a 4×4×4 matrix sold by Parker Brothers starting in 1953. The original box, and the 1972 reissue, described the game as "Parker Brothers 3D Tic Tac Toe Game." Players take turn placing pieces to get four in a row horizontally or...

1. QBig (V. Allis and P. Schoo)
2. 3D3T (A. Grigoriev)

Renju

Renju

Renju is the professional variant of Gomoku, a board game originated from Japan in Heian Period. It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou . It is played with black and white stones on a 15x15 intersection Go board...

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

Scrabble

Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...

1. TSP (J. Homan)
2. Tyler (A. Frank)

External links

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