The AST 4th Computer Olympiad took place in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, UK from 5 August 1992 to 11 August 1992. 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, Backgammon

Backgammon

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...

, Bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

, 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...

, Gin rummy

Gin rummy

Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game created in 1909 by Elwood T. Baker and his son C. Graham Baker. According to John Scarne, Gin evolved from 18th-century Whiskey Poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy, but less spontaneous than knock...

, 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, Othello

Reversi

Reversi is a board game involving abstract strategy and played by two players on a board with 8 rows and 8 columns and a set of distinct pieces for each side. Pieces typically are disks with a light and a dark face, each face belonging to one player...

, 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...

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Medals Awarded

Awari

1. Lithidion (M. van der Meulen) (NL)
2. Marvin (T.Lincke) (CH)
3. Juju (UK)

Backgammon

Backgammon

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...

1. Bax (K.-U. Koschnik) (DE)
2. Maestro 1.0 (J. Boyan) (US)
3. Video Gammon (R. Hoogerhyde) (US)

Bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

1. Bridge King (J. Leber and G. Scholz) (DE)
2. Bridge Baron (T. Throop and T. Guilfoyle) (UK)
3. Alpha Bridge (A. Lopatin) (RU)

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. 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:...
   
    6.72 (M. Uniacke) (UK) 1. The King
   Chessmaster
   Chessmaster is a chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold .-Timeline:...
   
    (J. de Koning) (NL) 1. Genesis (E. Riet Paap) (NL)

The three programs were awarded the gold medal

Chinese Chess

1. Surprise (R. Wu) (CH)
2. Elephant (S.-H. Hsu) (TW)

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. Tn 83 (A.R.D. Van Bergen) (NL)
2. Dynamo (A. Millet) (UK)

Gin rummy

Gin rummy

Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game created in 1909 by Elwood T. Baker and his son C. Graham Baker. According to John Scarne, Gin evolved from 18th-century Whiskey Poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy, but less spontaneous than knock...

1. Rummymate (RU)
2. Ginny (RU)

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. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
2. Go 4.3 (M. Reiss) (UK)
3. Archmage (S.-C. Hsu and J.-C. Yan) (TW) and 3. Neuron (RU)

Both Archmage and Neuron were awarded the bronze medal

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. Go 4.3 (M. Reiss) (UK)
2. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
3. Dragon (D.-Y. Lin) (TW)

Go-Moku

1. Victoria (V. Allis & L. Schoenmaker) (NL)
2. Polygon (J. Uiterwijk) (NL) and 2. Neuron (RU)

Both Polygon and Neuron were awarded the silver medal

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. Othel du Nord (J.-C. Delbarre) (FR)
2. Aida (J. Gnodde) (NL)
3. JacP'Oth (P. Gailhac) (FR)

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. Neuron (RU)
2. Zero Club (LVA)
3. Xokk (FIN)

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. Quetzal (T. Guilfoyle & R. Hooker) (UK)
2. Tyler (A. Frank) (US)
3. Trouble (NL)

External links

• Results page