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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Organizations]] * ICGA'''
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The '''ICGA''', the '''International Computer Games Association''', was founded as the [[ICCA]] in [[Timeline#1977|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]] <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf [ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)]</ref>
: [[FILE:ICGAJ.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=ICGA Journal]]
* to hold regular [[World Computer Chess Championship|World Computer-Chess Championships]], [[Computer Olympiad|Computer Olympiads]], and [[Conferences#AdvancesinComputerChess|Advances in Computer Games]] conferences
* to strengthen ties and to promote cooperation between computer-game [[:Category:Researcher|researchers]]
* to introduce computer [[Games|games]] to the games world
* to support national computer-games organizations and computer-games tournament organizers
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=The Board of the ICGA=
* President: [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] <ref>[https://icga.org/?p=2672 A NEW PRESIDENT - Announcement by David Levy] by [[Mark Lefler]], December 11, 2018 </ref>
* Vice-President: [[Ryan Hayward]]
* Vice-President Asian Countries: [[Shun-Chin Hsu]]
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| [[David Levy]]
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| 2019|-| [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] || 2019|
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=ICGA Topics=
* [httphttps://ilkicga.uvt.nlorg/icga/games/chess/endgames.php ICGA: Chess Endgames] compiled by [[Guy Haworth]] and colleagues » [[Endgame Tablebases]]
* [http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/icga/games/Loa/ ICGA: Lines of Action] by [[Mark Winands]] » [[Lines of Action]]
* [http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/icga/games/losingchess/ ICGA: Losing Chess] by [[Guy Haworth]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54972 WCCC 2015 Leiden] by [[Stefano Gemma]], [[CCC]], January 14, 2015
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64541 ICGA Facebook page] by [[Harvey Williamson]], [[CCC]], July 06, 2017
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77639 Would the ICGA have accepted today's NNUE engines?] by Madeleine Birchfield, [[CCC]], July 05, 2021 » [[NNUE]]
=External Links=
* [httphttps://icga.org/ New ICGA website]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/ ICGA Tournament Database]
* [https://www.facebook.com/theICGA/ ICGA - Home | Facebook] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64541 ICGA Facebook page] by [[Harvey Williamson]], [[CCC]], July 06, 2017</ref>
=References=
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