6th Computer Olympiad
Encyclopedia
The CMG 6th Computer Olympiad took place at Ad Fundum of the Universiteit Maastricht
in Maastricht
, The Netherlands from 18 August 2001 to 23 August 2001. As with each year's Computer Olympiad
, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons
, Chess
, Chinese Chess, Gipf
, LOA, and Shogi
.
The chess competition of the Computer Olympiad was a special event, since it was adopted by the ICCA as the 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship (WMCC 2001).
Chess
(18 participants)
Chinese Chess (3 participants)
Gipf
(2 participants)
Lines of Action
(3 participants)
Shogi
(3 participants)
Universiteit Maastricht
Maastricht University is a public university in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Founded in 1976, the university is the second youngest in the Netherlands. The university's founding name was Rijksuniversiteit Limburg and was changed into Universiteit Maastricht in 1996...
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 18 August 2001 to 23 August 2001. 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...
, 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, Gipf
GIPF (game)
GIPF is an abstract strategy board game by Kris Burm, the first of six games in his series of games called the GIPF Project.GIPF was recommended by Spiel des Jahres in 1998.-Gameplay:...
, LOA, 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 chess competition of the Computer Olympiad was a special event, since it was adopted by the ICCA as the 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship (WMCC 2001).
Medals Awarded
Amazons (4 participants)- 8QP (J. de Koning) (NL)
- Aska (Iida lab) (JAP)
- Invader (Avetisyan) (USA)
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...
(18 participants)
- Junior (A. Ban) (Israel)
- Quest (F. Morsch) (NL)
- Shredder (S. Meyer-Kahlen) (GER)
Chinese Chess (3 participants)
- ELP (J-C. Chen) (Taiwan)
- SG8.2 (Cheng) (Taiwan)
- Abyss'99 (T. Marsland) (CAN)
Gipf
GIPF (game)
GIPF is an abstract strategy board game by Kris Burm, the first of six games in his series of games called the GIPF Project.GIPF was recommended by Spiel des Jahres in 1998.-Gameplay:...
(2 participants)
- GF1 (K. van den Branden) (BE)
- Gipfted (D. Wentink) (NL)
Lines of Action
Lines of Action
Lines of Action is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Claude Soucie. The objective of the game is to connect all of your pieces...
(3 participants)
- YL (Y. Björnsson) (CAN)
- MIA II (M. Winands) (NL)
- Apprentice (D. Beal) (UK)
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)
- Shotest 5.6 (J. Rollason) (UK)
- Spear (R. Grimbergen) (NL/JAP)
- Tacos (H. Iida) (JAP)