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

=The Aims of the ICGA are=
 * to publish a quarterly ICGA Journal
 * [[FILE:ICGAJ.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=ICGA Journal]]

=The Board of the ICGA=
 * to hold regular World Computer-Chess Championships, Computer Olympiads, and Advances in Computer Games conferences
 * to strengthen ties and to promote cooperation between computer-game researchers
 * to introduce computer games to the games world
 * to support national computer-games organizations and computer-games tournament organizers
 * President: Jonathan Schaeffer
 * Vice-President: Ryan Hayward
 * Vice-President Asian Countries: Shun-Chin Hsu
 * Secretary-Treasurer: Hiroyuki Iida
 * Programmers Representative: Mark Lefler

=ICCA / ICGA Presidents=

=ICGA Events=
 * Advances in Computer Games
 * Computer Olympiad
 * World Chess Software Championship since 2010
 * World Computer Chess Championship
 * Tournament Rules


 * World Microcomputer Chess Championship until 2001

=Investigations= =ICGA Topics=
 * ICGA Investigations
 * ICGA: Chess Endgames compiled by Guy Haworth and colleagues » Endgame Tablebases
 * ICGA: Lines of Action by Mark Winands » Lines of Action
 * ICGA: Losing Chess by Guy Haworth
 * ICGA: Roshambo by Guy Haworth

=History and Purpose of the ICGA= Renamed into the ICGA in 2002, the association now more broadly fosters the Computer Games community through its relationships with Computer Science, Commercial and Game organizations throughout the world. The ICGA's broader scope reflects the more general way in which computer-game capability contributes to Artificial Intelligence and to the human experience of game-playing.

=Quotes=

Robert Hyatt
Robert Hyatt, 1997 in a rgcc post : I was there when Barend Swets (Believe the spelling is correct) proposed forming this organization in 1977 in Toronto. I was one of many that stood up and said "yes, I'll join." However, others stood up and said I'll not only join, I'll help for nothing, and the ICCA was formed, and continues to work this way.

Jaap van den Herik
Jaap van den Herik in 2001 in The Bell Captain : In 1977, the ICCA was founded during the Second World Computer-Chess Championship in Toronto. The organisation was the brainchild of Barend Swets and many participants supported the idea, among them Ken Thompson who then tied for 4th place amongst 16 participants with his program BELLE. CHESS 4.6 won the title but Ken received credit for BELLE's KQKR endgame play against IGM Walter Browne (Fenner, 1979). Further, Ken agreed to serve as Secretary and Treasurer of the new organisation alongside Ben Mittman, the first ICCA President, and did so successfully and with much enthusiasm for six years. =Best-Publication Awards=

Best-Publication Award
Winners of the Best-Publication Award 2011 ...
 * Sylvain Gelly, David Silver (2011). Monte-Carlo tree search and rapid action value estimation in computer Go. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 175, No. 11
 * Yoji Ojima, Hideki Kato (2012). Go progam Zen, that beat a 9 dan professional player (Takemiya Masaki) in a 19x19 Go game with 4 stones of handicap on March 17, 2012.
 * Abdallah Saffidine (2013). Solving Games and All That. Ph.D. thesis, Université Paris-Dauphine, advisor Tristan Cazenave, pdf
 * Gerd Isenberg, Mark Lefler (2014). The Chess Programming Wiki.. (Thank you)

ICGA Journal Awards
=Forum Posts=
 * ICGA Olympiad 2013: Yokohama, Aug 12-18! by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, December 21, 2012
 * ICGA Computer Olympiad 2013: Yokohama, Aug 12-18 by Harm Geert Muller, Rybka Forum, December 21, 2012
 * WCCC 2015 Leiden by Stefano Gemma, CCC, January 14, 2015
 * ICGA Facebook page by Harvey Williamson, CCC, July 06, 2017

=External Links=
 * New ICGA website
 * ICGA Tournament Database
 * ICGA - Home | Facebook
 * International Computer Games Association from Wikipedia
 * International Computer Games Association (ICGA), an Affiliated International Organizations of FIDE

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