The 11th 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 Turin, Italy between May 25 and June 4, 2006 in conjunction with the 14th 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...

 and the 5th Computer and Games conference (CG 2006). These events were co-hosted with the human FIDE 37th Chess Olympiad

37th Chess Olympiad

The 37th Chess Olympiad, comprising an open and women's tournament and the general assembly of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs , took place between 20 May and 6 June 2006, in Turin, Italy.-Open tournament:...

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Medals Awarded

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. GNU Backgammon (Müller)
2. BGBlitz (Berger)

Chinese Chess (5 participants)

1. NeuChess (W. Jiao) (China)
2. Shiga (S.-J. Yen) (Taiwan)
3. Deep Elephant (Wu) (China)

Clobber

Clobber

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

 (3 participants)

1. Pan (J. De Koning) (NL)
2. Mila (M. Winands) (NL)
3. ClobberB (J. Willemson) (Estonia)

Connect6

Connect6

Connect6 introduced in 2003 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....

 (3 participants)

1. NCTU6 (Wu and Chang)
2. X6 (Liou and Yen)
3. EVG (Huang and Hsu)

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. There are two players on opposite sides, with 20 pieces each, light for one player and dark for the other...

 (4 participants)

1. TDKing (Tillemans) (NL)
2. SJENDE BLYN (Wiersma) (NL)
3. Dam 2.2 (Jetten) (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 (6 participants)

1. GNU Go
   GNU Go
   GNU Go is a free software program by the Free Software Foundation that plays Go. Its source code is quite portable, and can be easily compiled for GNU/Linux, as well as other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X; ports exist for other platforms....
   
    (Free Software Foundation
   Free Software Foundation
   The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software...
   
   )
2. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
3. Indigo (B. Bouzy) (FRA)

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 (11 participants)

1. CrazyStone (R. Coulom) (FRA)
2. Aya (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
3. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)

Hex

Hex (board game)

Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, 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...

 (3 participants)

1. Six (Melis)
2. Wolve (Hayward)
3. Hex Krieger (Rasmussen)

Kriegspiel

Kriegspiel (chess)

Kriegspiel is a chess variant invented by Henry Michael Temple in 1899 and based upon the original Kriegsspiel developed by Georg von Rassewitz in 1812. In this game each player can see their own pieces, but not those of their opponent...

 (2 participants)

1. Darkboard (Favini and Ciancarini)
2. Kbott (Parker)

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...

 (2 participants)

1. MIA (Winands)
2. YL (Björnsson)

Pool

Billiards

Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...

 (5 participants)

1. PickPocket (Mike Smith) (CAN)
2. SkyNet (Will Leckie) (CAN)
3. Elix (Marc Godard) (CAN)

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)

1. YSS (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
2. Bonanza (Hoki) (JAP)
3. Tacos (H. Iida) (JAP)

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