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The Seventh Computer Olympiad took place from July 5 to 11, 2002, at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the Tenth World Computer Chess Championship. The Olympiad as well the WCCC were held in the former residence of the Gouvernor of Limburg in the historic center of Maastricht, Bouillonstraat 1-3, which now belongs to the Maastricht University. During the 7th Computer Olympiad the workshop on computer games was held, again organized by Jos Uiterwijk.

=Results=

Amazons
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Backgammon
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Bridge
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Chinese Chess
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Dots and Boxes

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Draughts
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Go
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19x19

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9x9
The Magog team at the 7th Computer Olympiad 2002. Mark Winands, Levente Kocsis, Erik van der Werf
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Lines of Action
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Shogi
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=See also=
 * CG 2002
 * WCCC 2002

=Publications=
 * Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3
 * Hans Kuijf (2002). Bridge at the 7th Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Ken Chen (2002). GO4++ wins 19x19 Go tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Erik van der Werf (2002). GO4++ wins 9x9 Go tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Richard J. Lorentz (2002). First-time entry Amazong wins Amazons tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Yngvi Björnsson, Mark Winands (2002). YL wins Lines of Action tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Jr-Chang Chen, Shi-Jim Yen, Shun-Chin Hsu (2002). ELP wins Chinese Chess tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Yasushi Tanase (2002). ISshogi wins Shogi tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Jaap Bus (2002). Dam 2.2 wins Draughts tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Control Freak wins Dots-and-Boxes tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Frank Berger (2002). BGBlitz wins Backgammon tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad

=Workshop= During the 7th Computer Olympiad a workshop on computer games was held, on the evenings of July 6, 7 and 8, again organized by Jos Uiterwijk from IKAT at Maastricht University
 * Frank Berger (2002). Backgammon at the 7th Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 » 7th Computer Olympiad
 * Jos Uiterwijk (2002). The 7th Computer Olympiad - Report on the Computer-Games Workshop. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4
 * Mark Winands (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad. IKAT, Maastricht University, pdf

Lectures

 * Jos Uiterwijk (ed.) (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad: Computer-Games Workshop Proceedings. CS 02-03, IKAT, Maastricht University
 * 1) Brian Sheppard (2002). An Overview of Computer Play of Scrabble. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 2) Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Dynamic-Information Games. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 3) Mark Winands, Levente Kocsis, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (2002). Learning in Lines of Action. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 4) Rémi Coulom (2002). Treemaps for Search-Tree Visualization. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
 * 5) Jonathan Schaeffer (2002). Solving the Games People Play. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 6) Jeroen Donkers, Jos Uiterwijk (2002). Programming Bao. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
 * 7) Jun Nagashima (2002). Realization-Probability Search: Its application to Shogi and LOA. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 8) Richard J. Lorentz (2002). Finding Territory in Amazons. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 9) Eugène Nalimov (2002). Chess Endgame Tablebases. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 10) Erik van der Werf (2002). Solving Ponnuki-Go on Small Boards. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 11) Ingo Althöfer (2002). Inventing Game Variants with Computer Help. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 12) Guy Haworth (2002). Self-play: Statistical Significance. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * 13) Guy Haworth (2002). Reference Fallible Endgame Play. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
 * 14) Yngvi Björnsson (2002). The Game Programmer’s Toolbox. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop

Photos
Eugène Nalimov, winner of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award and Guest of Honor at Workshop, during his invited Lecture, July 8, 2002

=Forum Posts=
 * Tony Marsland and Chinese Chess in Maastricht (slightly O.T.) by Omid David, CCC, July 30, 2002
 * Re: Tony Marsland and Chinese Chess in Maastricht (slightly O.T.) by Pham Hong Nguyen, CCC, July 30, 2002

=External Links=
 * Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
 * Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
 * 7th Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
 * 7th Computer Olympiad
 * 7th Computer Olympiad - Workshop
 * Welcome to a Computer-Games Minded Maastricht, ChessBase News, June 28, 2002 (ICGA Press Release)
 * BGBlitz at Maastricht 2002 - Computer Olympiad - Maastricht 2002 by Frank Berger

=References=

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