The 12th 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 Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, The Netherlands in conjunction with the 15th 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 Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007).

IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, SARA Computing and Networking Services and NCF (Foundation of National Computing Facilities) are enabling the organization of the Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007) (15–17 June 2007), the 15th World Computer-Chess Championship (WCCC) (11–18 June) and the 12th Computer Olympiad (CO) (11–18 June) was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Location: CGW2007 (The Turing hall - Z011), WCCC (Eulerzaal – Z009) and Computer Olympiad (Newtonzaal – Z010) , Science Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam.

Medals Awarded

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...

 (2 participants)

1. 8 Queens Problem (Johann de Koning) (NL)
2. Campya (Julien Kloetzer) (FRA)

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...

 (3 participants)

1. Bgblitz (Frank Berger) (DEU)
2. GNU Backgammon
3. MCgammon (Guillaume Chaslot, François van Lieshout) (BEL)

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...

 ( participants)

1. Rybka (Vasik Rajlich) (US)
2. Zappa (Anthony Cozie, Erdogan Günes) (Turkey)
3. Loop
   Loop
   - Technology :*Loop , sending a signal on a channel and receiving it back at the sending terminal*Loop , a method of control flow in computer science*Loop device, a Unix device node that allows a file to be mounted on a directory...
   
    (Fritz Reul) (DE)
4. GridChess (Kai Himstedt, Ulf Lorenz, ...) (DE) and Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (DE)

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 (5 participants)

1. NeuChess (Jiao Wang) (CHN)
2. Shiga (Ming-Cheng Cheng, Shi-Jim Yen) (TWN)
3. XieXie (Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo, Jih Tung Pai) (FRA)

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....

 (4 participants)

1. X6 (John Moon-Liou, Shi-Jim Yen) (TWN)
2. MeinStein (Theo van der Storm) (NL)
3. Kavalan (Shi-Jim Yen) (TWN)

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...

 (7 participants)

1. Dam 2.2 (Harm Jetten) (NL)
2. TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (CHE)
3. Sjende Blyn (Jelle Wiersma) (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 (8 participants)

1. MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang) (FRA)
2. Crazy Stone (Rémi Coulom) (FRA)
3. 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....
   
   

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 (10 participants)

1. Steenvreter (Erik van der Werf) (NL)
2. MoGo (Sylvain Gelly) (FRA)
3. Crazy Stone (Rémi Coulom) (FRA)

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. Tacos (Jun Nagashima, Hiroyuki Iida, Hashimoto Tsuyoshi) (JPN)
2. Reiki (Satoshi Todoroki) (JPN)
3. HIT+SS (Shohei Seike, Takeshi Ito, Ryosuke Ohguchi) (JPN)

Phantom Go (2 participants)

1. GoLois (Tristan Cazenave) (FRA)
2. InTheDark (Joris Bosboom) (NL)

Surakarta

Surakarta (game)

Surakarta is a little-known Indonesian abstract strategy game for two players, named after the ancient city of Surakarta in central Java. The game features an unusual method of capture which is "possibly unique" and "not known to exist in any other recorded board game."Surakarta is also among the...

(2 participants)

1. SIA (Mark Winands) (NL)
2. Incognito (Irmin Auwerda) (NL)

External links

• Official home page
• Computer Games Workshop