The 8th 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 November 23-November 27, 2003 in Graz

Graz

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Austria

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The Computer Olympiad was held in conjunction with the International Computer Games Association

International Computer Games Association

The International Computer Games Association was founded as the International Computer Chess Association in 1977 by computer chess programmers to organise championship events for computer programs and to facilitate the sharing of technical knowledge via the ICCA Journal.Renamed the 'ICGA' in...

 11th 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...

 2003 and the 10th Advances in Computer Games Conference. Because of this, no medals were awarded for the two chess events.

Medals Awarded

Abalone

Abalone

Abalone , from aulón, are small to very large-sized edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae and the genus Haliotis...

 (2 participants)

1. AbaPro (T. Werner) (AUT)
2. Nacre (P. Sommerlund) (DEN)

Amazons (5 participants)

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

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)

Chinese Chess (5 participants)

1. ZMBL (Z. Tu) (China)
2. Xie Xie (Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo) (FRA)
3. ELP (J-C. Chen) (Taiwan)

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...

 (3 participants)

1. Control Freak (W. Fraser) (USA)
2. Deep Beige (D. Bochenski) (UK)
3. Damepo (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...

 (4 participants)

1. Sjende Blyn (J. Wiersma) (NL)
2. Dam 2.2 (H. Jetten) (NL)
3. TD King (T. Tillemans) (CH)

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 (11 participants)

1. GNU Go (I. Wallin) (SWE)
2. GoAhead (P. Woitke) (GER)
3. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)

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. Aya (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
2. NeuroGo (M. Enzenberger) (CAN)
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...

 (2 participants)

1. Six (G. Melis) (HUN)
2. Mongoose (R. Hayward) (CAN)

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...

 (3 participants)

1. MIA IV (M. Winands) (NL)
2. BING (B. Helmstetter) (FRA)
3. (T-T) (J. Nagashima) (JAP)

Poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. 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 bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

 (2 participants)

1. Vexbot (University of Alberta GAMES group) (CAN)
2. Sparbot (University of Alberta GAMES group) (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. ISshogi (Y. Tanase) (JAP)
3. Tacos (H. Iida) (JAP)

External links

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• Detailed results and game records