The 7th 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...

was held 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

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 from July 5 till July 11, 2002. There were 68 participants from over 13 countries.

The chess event played here was adopted by the ICCA

ICCA

ICCA stands for:* * Independent Computer Consultants Association* Indigenous and Community Conserved Area* Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs * International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella...

 as the 10th 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...

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Medals Awarded

Amazons (6 participants)

1. Amazong (J. Lieberum) (GER)
2. 8QP (J. de Koning) (NL)
3. Invader (Avetisyan) (USA)

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...

 (2 participants)

1. BGBlitz (F. Berger) (GER)
2. Gnubg (A. Müller) (GER)

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...

 (2 participants)

1. Wbridge5 (Costel) (FRA)
2. Jack (H. Kuijff) (NL)

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)

1. Junior (A. Ban) (Israel)
2. Shredder (S. Meyer-Kahlen) (GER)
3. Brutus (A. Kure) (GER)

Chinese Chess (4 participants)

1. ELP (J-C. Chen) (Taiwan)
2. Shiga 8.1 (S-J. Yen) (Taiwan)
3. Xie Xie (Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo) (FRA)

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...

 (2 participants)

1. Control Freak (W. Fraser) (USA)
2. Seicho (H. Iida) (JAP)

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...

 (9 participants)

1. Dam 2.2 (H. Jetten) (NL)
2. DIOS (C. Jurriens) (NL)
3. Damage (B. Tuyt) (NL)

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 (5 participants)

1. Go4++ (M. Reiss) (UK)
2. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
3. GNU Go (I. Wallin) (SWE)

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 (4 participants)

1. Go4++ (M. Reiss) (UK)
2. GNU Go (I. Wallin) (SWE)
3. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)

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...

 (4 participants)

1. YL (Y. Björnsson) (CAN)
2. MIA III (M. Winands) (NL)
3. (T-T) (H. Iida) (JAP)

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...

(5 participants)

1. ISshogi (Y. Tanase) (CAN)
2. Kanazawa under Reiki (S. Todoroki) (JAP)
3. Shotest 5.6 (J. Rollason) (UK)