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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
Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking game card game of game of skill and game of chance . It is played by four players who form two partnerships; the partners sit opposite each other at a table....
 take place as well. The Olympiad was originally held in either London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 or Maastricht
Maastricht

Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands province of Limburg , of which it is the Capital . The city is situated on both sides of the Meuse River river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, near the Belgium and Germany borders....
, lately however, cities from around the world have hosted the Olympiad.

For many board games the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to take the "world's best computer player" title.

Olympiad was created in the 1980s by David Levy with the first contest taking place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel
Park Lane Hotel

The Park Lane Hotel is a star hotel on Piccadilly, London.The hotel was built in the 1920s in the Grand Art Deco Style by Sir Bracewell Smith....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, after when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser.






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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
Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking game card game of game of skill and game of chance . It is played by four players who form two partnerships; the partners sit opposite each other at a table....
 take place as well. The Olympiad was originally held in either London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 or Maastricht
Maastricht

Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands province of Limburg , of which it is the Capital . The city is situated on both sides of the Meuse River river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, near the Belgium and Germany borders....
, lately however, cities from around the world have hosted the Olympiad.

For many board games the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to take the "world's best computer player" title.

History

The Olympiad was created in the 1980s by David Levy with the first contest taking place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel
Park Lane Hotel

The Park Lane Hotel is a star hotel on Piccadilly, London.The hotel was built in the 1920s in the Grand Art Deco Style by Sir Bracewell Smith....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, after when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser. This resulted in the games being suspended until 2000 when the Mind Sports Olympiad resurrected them. Recently, the ICGA has adopted the Computer Olympiad and tries to organise the event on an annual basis.

Games

The games currently played are:

  • 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....
  • Backgammon
    Backgammon

    Backgammon is a board game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. A player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board....
  • Bridge
    Contract bridge

    Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking game card game of game of skill and game of chance . It is played by four players who form two partnerships; the partners sit opposite each other at a table....
  • Chess
    Chess

    Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two Player . Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from History of chess and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older...
  • Computational Pool
    Billiards

    Cue sports are a wide variety of Game of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a Baize-covered billiards table bounded by rubber ....
  • Connect6
    Connect6

    Connect6 introduced 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....
  • Chinese Chess
    Xiangqi

    Xiangqi is a two-player China board game in the same family as Chess, chaturanga, shogi and janggi. The present-day form of Xiangqi originated in China and is therefore commonly called Chinese chess in English language....
  • Dots and boxes
    Dots and Boxes

    Dots and Boxes is a pencil and paper game for two players .Starting with an empty grid of dots, players take turns, adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots....
  • 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....
  • 19×19 Go
  • 9×9 Go
  • Hex
    Hex (board game)

    Hex is a board game played on a hex map, 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 ....
  • Lines of Action
    Lines of Action

    Lines of Action is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Claude Soucie....
  • Shogi
    Shogi

    , in English, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western world chess, chaturanga, Chinese chess, and janggi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan....
  • Surakarta
    Surakarta (game)

    Surakarta is a Javanese abstract strategy game, named for the city of Surakarta. It was featured in "The Book of Classic Board Games" by Klutz Press....


Games which the Olympiad would like to run but have previously been unable to due to lack of entrants:

  • Abalone
    Abalone (board game)

    Abalone is a two-player strategy board game which can be quaintly summarized as "sumo wrestling with marbles", as the objective is to push opposing marbles off the edge of the board....
  • Awari/Bao/Mancala
    Mancala

    Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called "sowing" games, or "count-and-capture" games, which describes the game-play....
  • Clobber
    Clobber

    Clobber is an abstract strategy game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theory Michael H. Albert, J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski. It has subsequently been studied by Elwyn Berlekamp and Erik Demaine among others....
  • GIPF (game)
    GIPF (game)

    GIPF is an abstract strategy board game by Kris Burm, the first of the six games in his so-called GIPF project....
  • Octi
  • Othello
    Reversi

    Reversi is an abstract strategy game board game which involves play by two parties on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinct sides....
  • Poker
    Poker

    Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
  • Renju
    Renju

    Renju or Lianzhu is the professional variant of Gomoku, a board game originated from Japan in Heian Period. It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa in December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou ....
  • 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....
  • Twixt
    TwixT

    TwixT is a two-player abstract strategy game invented by Alex Randolph. It is a member of the connection game family, along with games such as Hex , Havannah , Y , P?NCT and *Star....


Olympiads

  • 13th Computer Olympiad
    13th Computer Olympiad

    The 13th Computer Olympiad, 16th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Beijing, China from 28 September–5 October 2008....
     - 2008, Beijing
    Beijing

    is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
    , China.
  • 12th Computer Olympiad
    12th Computer Olympiad

    The 12th Computer Olympiad was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in conjunction with the 15th World Computer Chess Championship and Computer Games Workshop 2007 ....
     - 2007, Amsterdam
    Amsterdam

    Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
    , The Netherlands.
  • 11th Computer Olympiad
    11th Computer Olympiad

    The 11th Computer Olympiad was held in Turin, Italy between May 25 and June 4, 2006 in conjunction with the 14th World Computer Chess Championship and the 5th Computer and Games conference ....
     - 2006, Turin
    Turín

    Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    .
  • 10th Computer Olympiad
    10th Computer Olympiad

    The 10th Computer Olympiad took place in Taipei, Taiwan from 3 September, 2005 to 6 September, 2005. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons, Chinese Chess, Clobber, Dots and Boxes, Computational Pool , Go , and Shogi....
     - 2005, Taipei
    Taipei

    Taipei has been the de facto capital of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, since the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and the capital of Taiwan since Japanese rule that began in 1895....
    , Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
    .
  • 9th Computer Olympiad
    9th Computer Olympiad

    The 9th Computer Olympiad took place in Ramat-Gan, Israel from July 3, 2004 to July 12, 2004. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons , Chinese Chess, Go , Lines of Action, Hex and Octi....
     - 2004, Ramat-Gan, Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    .
  • 8th Computer Olympiad
    8th Computer Olympiad

    The 8th Computer Olympiad was held November 23-November 27 2003 in Graz, Austria.The Computer Olympiad was held in conjunction with the ICGA 11th World Computer Chess Championship 2003 and the 10th Advances in Computer Games Conference....
     - 2003, Graz
    Graz

    Graz , with a population of around 290,000 as of 2008 , is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria ....
    , Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
    .
  • 7th Computer Olympiad
    7th Computer Olympiad

    The 7th Computer Olympiad was held in Maastricht, The Netherlands from July 5 till July 11, 2002. There were 68 participants from over 13 countries....
     - 2002, Maastricht
    Maastricht

    Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands province of Limburg , of which it is the Capital . The city is situated on both sides of the Meuse River river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, near the Belgium and Germany borders....
    , The Netherlands.
  • 6th Computer Olympiad
    6th Computer Olympiad

    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....
     - 2001, Maastricht
    Maastricht

    Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands province of Limburg , of which it is the Capital . The city is situated on both sides of the Meuse River river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, near the Belgium and Germany borders....
    , The Netherlands.
  • 5th Computer Olympiad
    5th Computer Olympiad

    The 5th Computer Olympiad took place at at Alexandra Palace, the West Hall in London, United Kingdom from 21 August, 2000 to 25 August, 2000. After an eight year hiatus, it was revived by bringing it into the Mind Sports Olympiad....
     - 2000, London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , England
    England

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  • 4th Computer Olympiad
    4th Computer Olympiad

    The AST 4th Computer Olympiad took place in London, UK from 5 August, 1992 to 11 August, 1992. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, Backgammon, Contract bridge, Chess, Chinese Chess, Draughts, Gin rummy, Go , Go-Moku, Reversi, Renju and Scrabble....
     - 1992, London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , England
    England

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  • 3rd Computer Olympiad
    3rd Computer Olympiad

    The 3rd Computer Olympiad took place in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 22 August, 1991 to 25 August, 1991. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, Bridge, Chess, Chinese Chess, Draughts, Go , Go-Moku,...
     - 1991, Maastricht
    Maastricht

    Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands province of Limburg , of which it is the Capital . The city is situated on both sides of the Meuse River river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, near the Belgium and Germany borders....
    , The Netherlands.
  • 2nd Computer Olympiad
    2nd Computer Olympiad

    The 2nd Computer Olympiad took place in London, UK from 15 August, 1990 to 21 August, 1990. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, Backgammon, Bridge, Checkers, Chess, Chinese Chess, Go , Go-Moku, Othello, Qubic, Renju and Scrabble....
     - 1990, London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , England
    England

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  • 1st Computer Olympiad
    1st Computer Olympiad

    The 1st Computer Olympiad took place at the Park Lane Hotel in London, UK from 9 August, 1989 to 15 August, 1989. In this Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, Backgammon, Bridge, Checkers, Chess, Chinese Chess, Connect-Four, Dominoes, Draughts Go , Go-Moku, Othello, Qubic,...
     - 1989, London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , England
    England

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    .


The 14th Computer Olympiad will be held in 2009 in Pamplona, Spain.

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