Computer Olympiad


The Computer Olympiad is a multi-games event in which computer programs compete against each other. For many games, the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to claim the "world's best computer player" title. First contested in 1989, the majority of the games are board games but other games such as bridge take place as well. In 2010, several puzzles were included in the competition.

History

Developed in the 1980s by David Levy, the first Computer Olympiad took place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London. The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, 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 International Computer Games Association has adopted the Computer Olympiad and tries to organise the event on an annual basis.

Games contested

The games which have been contested at each olympiad are:

1st Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

  1. Marco
  2. Wali
  3. Conchus
Backgammon
  1. Neurogammon
  2. Video Gammon
  3. Saitek Backgammon
Bridge
  2. Vtech
  3. Oxford Bridge 3
Checkers
  1. Chinook
  2. Checkers!
  3. Tournament Checkers
Chess
  1. Rebel
  2. Mephisto
  3. Fidelity
Chinese chess
  1. Acer Chinese Chess
  2. Chinese chess Expert Acme
  3. Elephant
Connect Four
  1. Victor
  2. Heap
  3. Four Blitz
Dominoes
  1. LUciano
  2. Seneca
  3. Rio de la Plata
Draughts
  1. Dios '89
  2. Truus
  3. McDammen
Go 19×19
  1. SWISS Explorer
  2. Goliath
  3. Star of Poland
Go 9×9
  1. Dragon
  2. Go Intellect
  3. Goliath
Gomoku
  1. Matena
  2. Homoku Sapiens
  3. Domino
Othello
  1. Polygon
  2. Comp'oth
  3. Badia
Renju
Scrabble
  1. Crab
  2. Tyler
  3. Quetzal

    2nd Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

  1. Lithidion
  2. Marco
Backgammon
  1. Video Gammon
  2. Prospero
Bridge
  1. Bridge Baron
  2. Oxford Bridge
Checkers
  1. Colossus
  2. Chinook
  3. Checkermate
Chess
  1. Mephisto
  2. Rebel
  3. Zugzwang
Chinese chess
  1. Elephant
  2. Chinese Chess Expert
  3. NKS
Go 19×19
  1. Go Intellect
  2. SWISS Explorer
  3. Go 4
Go 9×9
  1. Go Intellect
  2. Go 4
  3. Dragon
Gomoku
Othello
  1. Dumbo
  2. Vers2
  3. Microb
Qubic
  1. Qubic
  2. Cube
Renju
  1. Renju Fan
  2. XOXOXO
Scrabble
  1. TSP
  2. Crab
  3. Tyler

    3rd Computer Olympiad

Medals awarded

  1. Lithidion
  2. MyProgram
Bridge
  1. Bridge Baron
  2. Pupil
  3. Bridge King
Chess
  1. The ChessMachine WK-version
  2. The ChessMachine King
  3. Chessplayer 2175
Chinese chess
Both programs were awarded the gold medal.
Draughts
  1. Truus
  2. Dam 1.3
  3. McDammen
Go 19×19
  1. Goliath
  2. Go Intellect
  3. Explorer 90
Go 9×9
Explorer 90 and Go Intellect were awarded the gold medal.
Gomoku
  1. Vertex
  2. Neuro-GM
  3. Stone System
Nine men's morris
  1. Bushy 4.0
  2. IIF Moris
Othello
  1. Prothello
  2. Mast 91
  3. Rev91
Qubic
  1. QBig
  2. 3D3T
Renju
  1. Vertex
  2. Neuro-RN
  3. Stone System
Scrabble
  1. TSP
  2. Tyler

    4th Computer Olympiad

The AST 4th Computer Olympiad took place in London, UK from 5 August 1992 to 11 August 1992.

Medals awarded

  1. Lithidion
  2. Marvin
  3. Juju
Backgammon
  1. Bax
  2. Maestro 1.0
  3. Video Gammon
Bridge
  1. Bridge King
  2. Bridge Baron
  3. Alpha Bridge
Chess
All three programs were awarded the gold medal.
Chinese chess
  1. Surprise
  2. Elephant
Draughts
  1. Tn 83
  2. Dynamo
Gin rummy
  1. Rummymate
  2. Ginny
Go 19×19
Both Archmage and Neuron were awarded the bronze medal.
Go 9×9
  1. Go 4.3
  2. Go Intellect
  3. Dragon
Gomoku
Both Polygon and Neuron were awarded the silver medal.
Othello
  1. Othel du Nord
  2. Aida
  3. JacP'Oth
Renju
  1. Neuron
  2. Zero Club
  3. Xokk
Scrabble
  1. Quetzal
  2. Tyler
  3. Trouble

    5th Computer Olympiad

The 5th Computer Olympiad took place at Alexandra Palace, the West Hall in London, UK from 21 August 2000 to 25 August 2000. After an eight-year hiatus, it was revived by bringing it into the Mind Sports Olympiad. The computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons, awari, chess, Go, Hex, Lines of Action, and shogi.
The chess competition of the Computer Olympiad was a special event, since it was adopted by the ICCA as the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship.

Medals awarded

  1. 8QP
  2. Yamazon
  3. Anky
Awari
  1. Marvin
  2. Softwari
Chess

6th Computer Olympiad

The CMG 6th Computer Olympiad took place at Ad Fundum of the Maastricht University in Maastricht, 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, Lines of Action, 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.

Medals awarded

  1. 8QP
  2. Aska
  3. Invader
Chess
  1. Junior
  2. Quest
  3. Shredder
Chinese chess
  1. ELP
  2. SG8.2
  3. Abyss'99
GIPF
  1. GF1
  2. Gipfted
Lines of Action
  1. YL
  2. MIA II
  3. Apprentice
Shogi
  1. Shotest 5.6
  2. Spear
  3. Tacos

    7th Computer Olympiad

The 7th Computer Olympiad was held in Maastricht, Netherlands in 2002, from 5 July until 11 July. There were 68 participants from over 13 countries.
The chess event played here was adopted by the ICCA as the 10th World Computer Chess Championship.

Medals awarded

  1. Amazong
  2. 8QP
  3. Invader
Backgammon
  1. BGBlitz
  2. Gnubg
Bridge
  1. Wbridge5
  2. Jack
Chess
  1. Junior
  2. Shredder
  3. Brutus
Chinese chess
  1. ELP
  2. Shiga 8.1
  3. Xie Xie
Dots and Boxes
  1. Control Freak
  2. Seicho
Draughts
  1. Dam 2.2
  2. DIOS
  3. Damage
Go 19×19
  1. Go4++
  2. Go Intellect
  3. GNU Go
Go 9×9
  1. Go4++
  2. GNU Go
  3. Go Intellect
Lines of Action
  1. YL
  2. MIA III
Shogi
  1. ISshogi
  2. Kanazawa under Reiki
  3. Shotest 5.6

    8th Computer Olympiad

The 8th Computer Olympiad was held November 23–27 November 2003, in Graz, Austria.
The Computer Olympiad was held in conjunction with the International Computer Games Association 11th World Computer Chess Championship 2003 and the 10th Advances in Computer Games Conference. Because of this, no medals were awarded for the two chess events.

Medals awarded

  1. AbaPro
  2. Nacre
Amazons
  1. Amazong
  3. 8QP
Backgammon
  2. Gnubg
Chinese chess
  1. ZMBL
  2. Xie Xie
  3. ELP
Dots and Boxes
  1. Control Freak
  2. Deep Beige
  3. Damepo
Draughts
  1. Sjende Blyn
  2. Dam 2.2
  3. TD King
Go 19×19
  1. GNU Go
  2. GoAhead
  3. Go Intellect
Go 9×9
  1. Aya
  2. NeuroGo
  3. Go Intellect
Hex
  1. Six
  2. Mongoose
Lines of Action
  1. MIA IV
  2. BING
Poker
  1. Vexbot
  2. Sparbot
Shogi
  1. YSS
  2. ISshogi
  3. Tacos

    9th Computer Olympiad

The 9th Computer Olympiad took place in Ramat-Gan, Israel from 3 July 2004 to 12 July 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.
The event was held in conjunction with the 12th World Computer Chess Championship and Computers and Games 2004 Conference. Because of this, no medals were awarded for the two chess events.
Jonathan Schaeffer and J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk were the Tournament Directors.

Medals awarded

  1. 8QP
  2. TAS
Chinese chess
  1. Contemplation
  2. ELP
Go 19×19
  1. Go Intellect
  2. The Many Faces of Go
  3. Indigo
Go 9×9
  1. Go Intellect
  2. GnuGo
  3. Magog
Hex
  1. Six
  2. Mongoose
Lines of Action
  1. MIA 4++
  2. BING
  3. YL
Octi 6×7
  1. Testme2
  2. Casbah

    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.
The 11th Advances in Computer Games conference was also held at the same location and time as the Olympiad.
The organizing committee for the 10th edition was: H. H. L. M. Donkers, M. Greenspan, J. W. Hellemons, T-s Hsu, H. J. van den Herik, and M. Tiessen.

Medals awarded

  1. 8QP
  3. TAS
Chinese chess
  1. XQMASTER
  2. SHIGA
  3. NEUCHESS
Clobber
  1. MILA
  2. ClobberA
Dots and Boxes
  1. Deep Beige
  2. Beige Watch
  3. ALSOB
Go 19×19
  1. Hand Talk
  2. Go Intellect
  3. Aya
Go 9×9
  1. Go Intellect
  2. Aya
  3. Indigo
Pool
  1. UofA
  2. PoolMaster
  3. Elix
Shogi
  1. Tacos
  2. YSS
  3. Spear

    11th Computer Olympiad

The 11th Computer Olympiad was held in Turin, Italy between 25 May and 4 June 2006 in conjunction with the 14th World Computer Chess Championship and the 5th Computer and Games conference. These events were co-hosted with the human FIDE 37th Chess Olympiad.

Medals awarded

  1. GNU Backgammon
  2. BGBlitz
Chinese chess
  1. NeuChess
  2. Shiga
  3. Deep Elephant
Clobber
  1. Pan
  2. Mila
  3. ClobberB
Connect6
  1. NCTU6
  2. X6
  3. EVG
International draughts
  1. TDKing
  2. SJENDE BLYN
  3. Dam 2.2
Go 19×19
  1. GNU Go
  2. Go Intellect
  3. Indigo
Go 9×9
  1. Crazy Stone
  2. Aya
  3. Go Intellect
Hex
  1. Six
  2. Wolve
  3. Hex Krieger
Kriegspiel
  1. Darkboard
  2. Kbott
Lines of Action
  1. MIA
  2. YL
Pool
  1. PickPocket
  2. SkyNet
  3. Elix
Shogi
  1. YSS
  2. Bonanza
  3. Tacos

    12th Computer Olympiad

The 12th Computer Olympiad was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in conjunction with the 15th World Computer Chess Championship and Computer Games Workshop 2007.
IBM, SARA Computing and Networking Services, and NCF enabled the organization of the Computer Games Workshop 2007 , the 15th World Computer-Chess Championship and the 12th Computer Olympiad , all held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: CGW2007 at the Turing hall - Z011, WCCC at Eulerzaal – Z009, and the Computer Olympiad at Newtonzaal – Z010, Science Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam.

Medals awarded

  1. 8 Queens Problem
  2. Campya
Backgammon
  1. Bgblitz
  3. MCgammon
Chess
Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, Zappa and Loop were moved up, and GridChess and Shredder jointly awarded third place.
Chinese chess
  1. NeuChess
  2. Shiga
  3. XieXie
Connect6
  1. X6
  2. MeinStein
  3. Kavalan
International draughts
  1. Dam 2.2
  2. TDKing
  3. Sjende Blyn
Go 19×19
  2. Crazy Stone
  3. GNU Go
Go 9×9
  1. Steenvreter
  3. Crazy Stone
Shogi
  1. Tacos
  2. Reiki
  3. HIT+SS
Phantom Go
  1. GoLois
  2. InTheDark
Surakarta
  1. SIA
  2. Incognito

    13th Computer Olympiad

The 13th International Computer Games Championship, 16th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Beijing, China from 28 September to 5 October 2008. The location was Beijing Golden Century Golf Club, Qinglonghu Township, Fangshan District, Beijing.

Results

  1. Invader
  2. 8 Queens Problem
  3. Campya
Chess
  1. Rybka
  2. HIARCS
  3. Junior
  4. Cluster Toga
Rybka was retroactively disqualified from all WCCC events in 2011 due to findings of plagiarism. Thus, Cluster Toga was awarded a bronze medal, and the other two winners were upgraded.
Speed chess
  1. Sjeng
  2. Rybka
  3. HIARCS
  4. Shredder
Rybka was retroactively disqualified from all WCCC events in 2011 due to findings of plagiarism.
Chinese chess
  1. Intella
  2. Cyclone
  3. EThinker
Connect6
  1. NCTU6-Lite
  2. Bitstronger
  3. NEUConn6
Dots and Boxes
  1. The Shark
  2. Qiyi
  3. Matadots
International draughts
  1. TDKing
  2. Rocky
Go
  1. The Many Faces of Go
  2. MoGo
  3. Leela
Go
  1. The Many Faces of Go
  2. Leela
  3. MoGo
Hex
  1. Wolve
  2. MoHex
  3. Six
Computational pool
  1. CueCard
  2. PickPocket
  3. Elix
Shogi
  1. Tacos
  2. BitStronger
  3. HIT+SS
Phantom Go
  1. GoLois
  2. Chinese Deep
  3. BitStronger
Surakarta
  1. SIA
  2. BitStronger

    14th Computer Olympiad

The 14th Computer Olympiad, 17th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Pamplona, Spain, 10-18 May 2009.

World Computer Chess Championship

Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, the Championship title was awarded jointly to Deep Sjeng, Shredder, and Junior.
Chess
  1. Rybka
  2. Shredder
Likewise, the Blitz Championship title was awarded to Shredder.

Medals awarded (Computer Olympiad)

  1. Invader
  2. 8 Queens Problem
  3. Campya
Chess
  1. Rybka
  2. Shredder
  3. Deep Sjeng
  4. Pandix
Chinese Chess
  1. TMSK
  2. HaQiKi D
  3. Chimo
Connect6
  1. Bit
  2. MeinStein
  3. Bit2
Draughts
  1. TDKing
  2. Tornado
  3. Rocky
Go
  1. Zen
  2. Fuego
  3. MoGo
Go
  1. Fuego
  2. MoGo
  3. Yogo
Hex
  1. MoHex
  2. Wolve
  3. Six
Lines of Action
  1. Mia 4.51
  2. Bit
Shogi
  1. Tacos
  2. BitStronger
Havannah
  1. Wanderer
  2. Shakti
KriegSpiel
  1. Darkboard
  2. KriegExpert
  3. Bit
Phantom Go
  1. GoLois
  2. Bit

    15th Computer Olympiad

The 15th Computer Olympiad, 18th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Kanazawa, Japan, 24 September to 2 October 2010.

World Computer Chess Championship

Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, the Championship title was awarded jointly to Rondo and Thinker. Shredder was given third place.
Chess
  1. Shredder
  2. Rondo
  3. Thinker
Chess
Likewise, Jonny and Shredder were awarded the blitz championship after Rybka's disqualification.

Medals awarded (Computer Olympiad)

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Chinese chess
  1. Shiga
  2. TMSK
  3. Chimo
Chinese dark chess
*
Clobber
  1. Pan.exe
Pan.exe won by default, as there were no other entrants.
Connect6
*
Dots and Boxes
  1. The Shark
  2. BITPanda
Draughts
  1. TDKing
  2. Rocky
Go
  1. Erica
  2. Zen
  3. Many Faces of Go
Go
  1. Many Faces of Go
  2. Fuego
  3. MoGo
Go
  1. MyGoFriend
  2. Fuego
  3. Erica
Hex
*
Shogi
  1. Gekisashi
  2. Shueso
  3. GPS Shogi
Minishogi
  1. Clair 1/128
  2. Shokidoki 0.8
  3. 55TACOS
Havannah
*
Light Up
Cpuzzler was awarded the silver medal.
Nonograms
Cpuzzler was awarded the bronze medal.
Nurikabe
Cpuzzler , Enigma ,
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Phantom Go
GoLois , Moccos , IcySoftwoodWine
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Quoridor
*
Surakarta
  1. SIA
  2. Qiyi
  3. BITPanda

    16th Computer Olympiad

The 16th International Computer Games Championship, 19th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Tilburg. The events took place from 18 November to 26 November 2011. The venue was the Tilburg University.

Planned competitions

Backgammon
Chess
Clobber
Chinese chess
Chinese dark chess
Connect6
Dots and Boxes
Draughts
EinStein würfelt nicht!
Go 19×19
Go 9×9
Go 13×13
NoGo
Phantom Go
Havannah
Hex
Shogi
Surakarta

17th Computer Olympiad

The 17th International Computer Games Championship, 20th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Yokohama, Japan from 12 August to 18 August 2013. The venue was the Collaboration Complex at Keio University Hiyoshi Campus.

Competitions and medals awarded

The 18th International Computer Games Championship was held in Leiden, Amsterdam from 29 June to 6 July 2015. Organised by the International Computer Games Association, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and the Leiden Centre of Data Science. The venue was Leiden University.

Competitions and medals awarded

The following are the competitions in the 18th Computer Olympiad.
The 19th International Computer Games Championship, a scientific conference on computer games was held in Leiden, Amsterdam from 27 June to 3 July 2016. Organised by the International Computer Games Association, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and the Leiden Centre of Data Science. The venue was Leiden University

20th Computer Olympiad

The 20th International Computer Games Championship, a scientific conference on computer games was held in Leiden, Amsterdam from 1 July to 7 July 2017. Organised by the International Computer Games Association, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and the Leiden Centre of Data Science. The venue was Leiden University

21st Computer Olympiad

The Computer Olympiad took place from 7 to 13 July 2018 and the 10th International Conference on Computers and Games from 9 to 11 July in Taipei, Taiwan. The World Computer Chess Championships 2018 took place from 13 to 19 July in Stockholm, Sweden.

22nd Computer Olympiad

The Computer Olympiad took place from 11 to 17 August 2019 in Macau SAR, China.

Competitions and medals awarded

The following are the competitions in the 22nd Computer Olympiad.

Abalone

Abalone is a strategy game using a hexagonal patterned board with 14 marbles for each of two players. The objective is to push six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board.
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Amazons

Amazons is played on a 10×10 chessboard by two players each with four amazons. Moves are made to block squares and the winner is the last player able to move his pieces to an unblocked square.
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Awari

Awari is an abstract strategy game among the Mancala family of board games.
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Backgammon

Backgammon is a board game for two players where the checker-like playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice; a player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board before his opponent.
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Bridge

Bridge is a trick-taking card game for four players.
Bridge participation in the Computer Olympiad was largely discontinued when in 1996 the American Contract Bridge League established a new official World Computer Bridge Championship, to be run annually at a major bridge tournament. Starting in 1999, that event is now co-sponsored by the World Bridge Federation.
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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a checkered game-board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player begins with 16 pieces of varying characteristics, the objective being to capture one's opponent's king piece.
Many computer-versus-computer events are held beyond those of the Computer Olympiad.
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Chinese chess

Chinese chess is a strategy board game for two players from the same family as western or international chess. Known primarily as Xiangqi internationally, the game is referred to as Chinese chess in the Computer Olympiad competitions.
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Chinese dark chess

Chinese dark chess is known as Banqi in Chinese.
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Clobber

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Connect Four

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Connect6

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Dominoes

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Gin rummy

GIPF

Octi

Octi is an abstract strategy game with similarities to checkers and chess but allowing for multiple jumping, capturing, and special movement of pieces. The object of the game is move one's pieces into the opponent's starting points.

Poker

Pool

Also known as computational pool.
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