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Alexandra Palace from the west [1]
The Fifth Computer Olympiad took place from August 21 to 25, 2000, at Alexandra Palace, North London, United Kingdom. After an eight-year hiatus, it was revived by bringing it into the Mind Sports Olympiad, in conjunction with the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship [2]. During the 5th Computer Olympiad a workshop on computer games was held, organized by Jos Uiterwijk.
Contents
Results
Amazons
| # | Program | CC | Authors | P10 | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8QP | NL | Johan de Koning | 10 | Gold |
| 2 | Yamazon | JP | Hiroshi Yamashita | 7 | Silver |
| 3 | Anky | NL | Patrick Hensgens | 7 | Bronze |
| 4 | Antiope | GR | Theodore Tegos | 4 | |
| 5 | Aska | JP | Yoichiro Kajihara | 2 | |
| 6 | Otrere | US | Paul E. Utgoff | 0 |
Awari
| # | Program | CC | Authors | P8 | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marvin | CH | Thomas Lincke | 4½ | Gold |
| 2 | Softwari | NL | Roel van der Goot | 3½ | Silver |
Go
| # | Program | CC | Authors | P10 | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goemate | CN | Zhixing Chen | 10 | Gold |
| 2 | Go 4++ | GB | Michael Reiss | 8 | Silver |
| 3 | Aya | JP | Hiroshi Yamashita | 5 | Bronze |
| 4 | GoStar | CN | Jinqiang Lu | 4 | |
| 5 | Indigo | FR | Bruno Bouzy | 3 | |
| 6 | GoLois | FR | Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau | 0 |
Michael Reiss and Tristan Cazenave in Go 4++ vs.GoLois, the WMCCC in the background [6]
Hex
| # | Program | CC | Authors | P8 | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hexy | US | Vadim Anshelevich | 8 | Gold |
| 2 | Queenbee | NL | Jack van Rijswijck | 4 | Silver |
| 3 | KillerBee | IT | Emanuele Brasa | 0 | Bronze |
Lines of Action
| # | Program | CC | Authors | P6 | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YL | IS | Yngvi Björnsson | 6 | Gold |
| 2 | Mona | CA | Darse Billings | 4 | Silver |
| 3 | MIA | NL | Mark Winands | 2 | Bronze |
First medals in LoA: Mark Winands, Yngvi Björnsson, and Darse Billings [9]
Shogi
| # | Program | CC | Authors | P8 | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YSS | JP | Hiroshi Yamashita | 8 | Gold |
| 2 | Shotest 4.1 | GB | Jeff Rollason | 4 | Silver |
| 3 | Tacos | JP | Hiroyuki Iida, Yoichiro Kajihara et al. | 0 | Bronze |
See also
Publications
- Jaap van den Herik (2000). The Fifth Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- Thomas Lincke, Roel van der Goot (2000). Marvin wins Awari Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- Nick Wedd (2000). Goemate wins Go Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- Yngvi Björnsson (2000). YL wins Lines of Action Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- Patrick Hensgens, Jos Uiterwijk (2000). 8QP wins Amazons Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- Vadim Anshelevich (2000). Hexy wins Hex Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, pdf
- Hiroyuki Iida (2000). YSS wins Shogi Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- Jos Uiterwijk (2000). Report on The Computer-Games Workshop. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
Workshop
During the 5th Computer Olympiad a workshop on computer games was held, organized by Jos Uiterwijk.
- Jos Uiterwijk (ed.) (2000). The Fifth Computer Olympiad; Computer-Games Workshop Proceedings. Technical report CS 00-03, IKAT, Maastricht University
- Jaap van den Herik (2000). Passed Predictions and Current Expectations. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
- Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida, Jin Yoshimura (2000). A Deterministic Approach for Solving Kriegspiel-like Problems. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
- Patrick Hensgens, Jos Uiterwijk (2000). A Knowledge-Based Approach of Amazons. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop [11]
- Jack van Rijswijck (2000). Partition Search in Hex. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
- Geoffrey Irving, Jeroen Donkers, Jos Uiterwijk (2000). Solving Kalah. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop » Solving Kalah [12]
- Thomas Lincke, Ambros Marzetta (2000). Large Endgame Databases with Limited Memory Space. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop [13]
- Tristan Cazenave (2000). Iterative Widening. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
- Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Yoichiro Kajihara, Hiroyuki Iida (2000). Brinkmate Search in Computer Shogi. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
- Mark Winands, Jos Uiterwijk (2000). Analysis and Implementation of Lines of Action. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
- Vadim Anshelevich (2000). The Game of Hex: The Hierarchical Approach and its Discovery. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop [14]
- Darse Billings (2000). The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop [15]
- Guy Haworth (2000). Chess Endgames: Currents and Futures. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
- Jonathan Schaeffer (2000). The GAMES group at the University of Alberta. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop [16]
External Links
- London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
- Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
- 5th Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
- Results of Mind Sports Olympiad Computer Go Tournament
References
- ↑ The front of the Alexandra Palace in London, Image by Oliver Spalt, August 2008, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, Alexandra Palace from Wikipedia
- ↑ 5th Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
- ↑ 5th Computer Olympiad, Amazons - London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ 5th Computer Olympiad, Awari - London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ 5th Computer Olympiad, Go - London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ Computer Go - Past Events - Computer Olympiad 2000
- ↑ 5th Computer Olympiad, Hex - London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ 5th Computer Olympiad, Lines of Action - London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ Mind Sports Olympiad, England, August 2000 by Aaron Davidson
- ↑ 5th Computer Olympiad, Shogi - London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ Patrick Hensgens (2001). A Knowledge-based Approach of the Game of Amazons. Master's thesis, Maastricht University, pdf
- ↑ Geoffrey Irving, Jeroen Donkers, Jos Uiterwijk (2000). Solving Kalah. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, pdf
- ↑ Thomas Lincke, Ambros Marzetta (2000). Large Endgame Databases with Limited Memory Space. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- ↑ Vadim Anshelevich (2000). The Game of Hex: The Hierarchical Approach. Combinatorial Game Theory Workshop, MSRI, Berkeley
- ↑ RoShamBo Programming Competitions
- ↑ U of A GAMES Group Home Page
