The 11th Computer Olympiad will be held in Torino, Italy, in
conjunction with the 14th World Computer-Chess Champion****p and the
5th Computer and Games conference (CG 2006). This time these events
will be co-hosted with the human FIDE Chess Olympics, to be held in
Torino between May 25 and June 4, 2006.
Below we mention 26 different games for which a program can be
submitted.
Abalone
Amazons
Arimaa
Backgammon
Bao
Bridge
Chinese Chess
8x8 Checkers
Clobber
Diplomacy
Dominoes
Dots and Boxes
10x10 Draughts
Computational Pool
Gipf
Go
9x9 Go
Hex
Lines of Action
6x7 OCTI
9x9 OCTI
Othello
Poker
Renju
Scrabble
Shogi
The game of Renju, claimed to be solved, is still welcome since we
have not seen a fully-operational program on internet that plays
perfectly. Moreover, we are willing to host more games, such as
Ataxx, Dvonn, Mediocrity, Onyx, Tamsk, TwixT and Zèrtz but we do not
know of the existence of adequately playing programs. We are awaiting
suggestions and proposals of programmers before we include them in
the official list given above.
For each game a tournament will take place provided that at least two
programs enter the tournament for that particular game. Gold, Silver
and Bronze medals will be awarded to the leading programs in each
tournament.
The Tournament Director of the Computer Olympiad will be: H.J. van
den Herik.
The rules of the 11th Computer Olympiad will be published on this
website
The entry fees for the other tournaments are as follows:
Amateur: ? 25
Semi-professional: ? 100
Professional: ? 250
A participant is expected to be ICGA member (? 40).
"Amateur": programmers who have no commercial interest in their
program, and are not professional game programmers. Applications for
amateur classification must supply information to justify their claim.
"Semi-professional": Any program submitted by an employee or
associate from a games-programming company. The program's name must
not be derived from or similar to a commercial product.
"Professional": A program whose name is the same as or derived from a
commercial product.
More info at:
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2006/index.htm
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