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The '''ICGA Journal''', formerly, until 1999, the ICCA Journal is the quarterly published magazine, received by all [[ICGA]] members <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/ The quarterly published ICGA Journal]</ref>. World-wide membership comprises individuals as well as niversity and industrial members.
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=Table of Contents, Abstracts and Selected Papers=
by [[Ernst A. Heinz]] and [[Heiner Marxen]] the [[ICGA]] , further continued with selected contents by [[Main Page|CPW]] editors. ==Volume 43, 2021== <span id="43_1"><ref/span>===ICGA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1===* [[Mingyan Wang]], [[httpHang Ren]], [[Wei Huang]], [[Taiwei Yan]], [[Jiewei Lei]], [[Jiayang Wang]], ''An efficient AI-based method to play the Mahjong game with the knowledge and game-tree searching strategy''.* [[Miguel G. Palomo]], ''Sudoku Ripeto - A variant of Sudoku with repeated symbols''.* [[Guy Haworth]], ''Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, Edition 5: The bible evolves''.* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], ''Mad Monty Chess''.* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''Chess960 Superhumans''! [https://ilkmatthewsadler.uvtme.nluk/icgaengine-chess/journalchess960-superhumans/contentsonline]* [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''The 20th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC20''. [https://tcec-chess.com/articles/TCEC_20.pdf pdf] » [[TCEC Season 20]]* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''The TCEC20 Computer Chess Superfinal: a Perspective''. [https://tcec-chess.com/articles/Sufi_20_-_Sadler.pdf pdf] * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''TCEC Cup 8''. [https://tcec-chess.com/articles/TCEC_Cup_8.pdf pdf]* [[Lars Sandin]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''The SSDF Chess Engine Rating List, 2020-12''. » [[SSDF]]<span id="43_2"></span>===ICGA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2===* [[Guy Haworth]], ''Chess without draws''.* [[Yasuhiko Takenaga]], [[Sho Kikuchi]], [[Hushan Quan]], ''On the power of lookahead in single-player PuyoPuyo''.* [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Mark Winands]], ''A tribute to Guy Haworth''.* [[Hiroyuki Iida]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[I-Chen Wu]], ''The Computer Olympiad 2020''. » [[23rd Computer Olympiad|23rd Computer Olympiad 2020]]* [[Quentin Cohen-Solal]], [[Tristan Cazenave]], ''DESCENT wins five gold medals at the Computer Olympiad''. * Editor, ''Exciting news for the 2021 advances in computer games conference''. * [[Lars Sandin]], [[Tristan Cazenave]], ''The SSDF Chess Engine Rating List, 2021-07''.php <span id="43_3"></span>===ICGA Journal Contents Database, Vol. 43, No. 3===* [[Dennis Soemers]], [[Vegard Mella]], [[Cameron Browne]], [[Olivier Teytaud]], ''Deep learning for general game playing with Ludii and Polygames''. * [[Jos Uiterwijk]], ''Solving narrow Konane boards''. * [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], ''The Computer Olympiads 1989–2021''. <span id="43_4"></refspan>===ICGA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 4===* [[Alejandro González Romero]], [[René Alquézar|René Alquézar Mancho]], [[Arturo Ramírez|Arturo Ramírez Flores]], [[Francisco González Acuña]], [[Ian García Olmedo]], ''Heuri: A scrabble© playing engine using a probability-based heuristic''.* [[Connor Gregor]], [[Daniel Ashlock]], [[Allan R. Willms]], ''The algebraic solvability of the novel lamplighter puzzle''. <ref>[httphttps://ilken.uvtwikipedia.nlorg/icgawiki/journalLamplighter_group Lamplighter group From Wikipedia]</docsref>* [[Hiroyuki Iida]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[I-Chen Wu]], ''The 2021 Computer Olympiad''. » [[24th Computer Olympiad|24th Computer Olympiad 2021]]* [[Lars Sandin]], ''The SSDF Chess Engine Rating List, 2022-01''. » [[SSDF]] ==Volume 42, 2020== <span id="42_1"></Referencesspan>===ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1===* [[Manuel Cristóbal López-Michelone]], [[Jorge Luis Ortega-Arjona]], ''A description language for chess''. * [[Hung Guei]], [[Ting-Han Wei]], [[I-Chen Wu]], ''2048-like games for teaching reinforcement learning''. * [[Tristan Cazenave]], ''Jacques Pitrat (1934–2019): An obituary''. * [[Guy Haworth]], ''CEN: Understanding Rook vs Minor Piece Endgames''. * [[Lu-Nung Chen]], [[Shun-Shii Lin]], [[Chih-Hung Chen]], ''Jump wins Chinese Checkers tournament''.pdf » [[22nd Computer Olympiad]]* [[Yen-Chi Chen]], [[Shun-Shii Lin]], ''Requiem wins Nonogram tournament''. * [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Ting-Yu Lin]], [[Gang-Yu Fan]], ''Yahari wins Chinese dark chess tournament''. * [[Jung-Kuei Yang]], [[Shi-Jim Yen]], ''The Connect6 tournament of the 2019 Computer Olympiad''. * [[Yuexian Gao]], ''The DouDiZhu tournament of the 2019 Computer Olympiad''. * [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Hsuan-Yu Wang]], [[Po-Hsun Chen]], ''Nyanpass wins Minishogi and Diceshogi tournaments''. <span id="42_23"></span>===ICGA Reference DatabaseJournal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3===* [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], ''Fifty years of computer chess''. * [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], ''The 1970 United States computer chess championship: The start of the longest-running experiment in computer science history''. » [[ACM 1970] ]* [[David Slate|David J. Slate]], ''CHESS 4.5’s participation in the Paul Masson Chess Classic Tournament of 1976''. » [[Chess (pdfProgram)]]* [[Tony Marsland]], ''Computer loses in king-size blunder''. » [[ACM 1970]]* [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], ''An analysis of games played in world computer chess championships over the years''.* [[David Levy]], ''Ben Mittman – an appreciation''. » [[Ben Mittman]]* [[Linda Scherzer]] , ''BEBE, SYS-10, Inc., and computer chess''. » [[Bebe]]* [[Robert Hyatt]], ''The history of BLITZ/CRAY-BLITZ/CRAFTY''. » [[Blitz]], [[Cray Blitz]], [[Crafty]]* [[Ulf Lorenz]], [[Chrilly Donninger|Christian Donninger]], [[Mohammed Nasir Ali|Muhammad N. Ali]], [[Erdogan Günes]], [[Christopher Lutz]], ''Hydra: Report and technical overview''. » [[Hydra]]* [[Ingo Althöfer]], ''Computer Chess and Chess Computers in East Germany''. * [[Guy Haworth]], ''CEN: Thomas Ströhlein’s Endgame Tables, a 50th Anniversary''. » [[Thomas Ströhlein]]* [[Dieter Müller]], ''A program for analyzing two move chess problems''. * [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], ''The laughing is over''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''The 17th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC17''. » [[TCEC Season 17]]* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''The TCEC17 Computer Chess Superfinal: A perspective''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''TCEC Cup 5''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''The 18th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC18''. » [[TCEC Season 18]]* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''The TCEC18 Computer Chess Superfinal: A perspective''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''TCEC Cup 6''. * [[Lars Sandin]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''The SSDF Rating List, 2020-07, in memoriam Tony Hedlund''. » [[SSDF]]<span id="42_4"></refspan>===ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4===* [[Tristan Cazenave]], [[Yen-Chi Chen]], [[Guan-Wei Chen]], [[Shi-Yu Chen]], [[Xian-Dong Chiu]], [[Julien Dehos]], [[Maria Elsa]], [[Qucheng Gong]], [[Hengyuan Hu]], [[Vasil Khalidov]], [[Cheng-Ling Li]], [[Hsin-I Lin]], [[Yu-Jin Lin]], [[Xavier Martinet]], [[Vegard Mella]], [[Jeremy Rapin]], [[Baptiste Roziere]], [[Gabriel Synnaeve]], [[Fabien Teytaud]], [[Olivier Teytaud]], [[Shi-Cheng Ye]], [[Yi-Jun Ye]], [[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Sergey Zagoruyko]], ''Polygames: Improved zero learning''. * [[Raphael Thiele]], [[Ingo Althöfer]], ''Analyzing a variant of Clobber: The game of San Jego''.* [[Jeremy Foxcroft]], [[Daniel Ashlock]], ''A polyomino puzzle for arithmetic practice''. * [[Dap Hartmann]], ''Book review: MAN vs MACHINE: Challenging Human Supremacy at Chess, Karsten Müller & Jonathan Schaeffer''. Review on [[Karsten Müller]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''2018'''). ''[https://www.russell-enterprises.com/russell-enterprises/man-vs-machinebrchallenging-human-supremacy-at-chess Man vs. Machine: Challenging Human Supremacy at Chess]''. [https://www.russell-enterprises.com/ Russell Enterprises]* [[Tristan Cazenave]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Abdallah Saffidine]], [[I-Chen Wu]], ''The ACG 2019 Conference''. » [[Advances in Computer Games 16]]* [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''The 19th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC19''. » [[TCEC Season 19]]* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''The TCEC19 Computer Chess Superfinal: A perspective''. * [[Guy Haworth]], further continued with selected contents by [[Main Page|CPWNelson Hernandez]] editors, ''TCEC Cup 7''.
==Volume 41, 2019==
* [[Tristan Cazenave]], [[Abdallah Saffidine]], [[Nathan Sturtevant]], ''Computer Games Workshop at IJCAI 2018''.
* [[Guy Haworth]], ''Chess endgame news: Understanding minor piece endgames ''.
<span id="41_3"></span>===ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3===* [[Emmanuel Fokides]], [[Penelope Atsikpasi]], [[Polyxeni Kaimara]], [[Ioannis Deliyannis]], ''Let players evaluate serious games. Design and validation of the Serious Games Evaluation Scale''. * [[Lars SandinDennis Soemers]], [[Walter Crist]], [[Cameron Browne]], ''[https://content.iospress.com/articles/icga-journal/icg190118 Report on the Digital Ludeme Project]''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''TCEC14: The SSDF 14th Top Chess Engine Rating List Championship''. » [[TCEC Season 14]]* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''The TCEC14 computer chess superfinal: A perspective''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''TCEC15: The 15th Top Chess Engine Championship''. » [[TCEC Season 15]]* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''The TCEC15 computer chess superfinal: A perspective''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''TCEC Cup 3''. * [[Guy Haworth]], ''Chess endgame news: an endgame challenge for neural nets''. <span id="41_4"></span>===ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4===* [[Vladimir Vargas-Calderón]], ''Are Armageddon chess games implemented fairly?'' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_chess#Armageddon Armageddon chess from Wikipedia]</ref>* [[Karsten Müller]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''Stalemate and ‘DTS’ depth to stalemate endgame tables''. * [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], ''An ICGA evaluation function''. * [[Jan Krabbenbos]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''WCCC 2019: The 25th World Computer Chess Championship''. » [[WCCC 2019]]* [[Jan Krabbenbos]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''WCSC 2019: The 9th World Chess Software Championship''. » [[WCSC 2019]]* [[Jan Krabbenbos]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''WSCC 2019-02: The World Speed Chess Championship''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''The 16th Top Chess Engine Championship, TCEC16''. » [[SSDFTCEC Season 16]]* [[Matthew Sadler]], ''The TCEC16 computer chess superfinal: A perspective''. * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Nelson Hernandez]], ''TCEC Cup 4''. * [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], ''Special Issue on Computer Chess Tournaments: The 50-Year Experiment''. Call for Papers,
==Volume 40, 2018==
* [[Karsten Müller]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''Chess Endgame News: The World Chess Championship, 2018''.
* [[Guy Haworth]], ''Chess Endgame News: 7-man ‘Syzygy’ DTZ50 EGTs''.
* [[Lars Sandin]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''The SSDF Chess Engine Rating List 2018-10''.
* [[Cameron Browne]], ''Computer-assisted puzzle design''. [[CG 2018]]
* [[Lung-Pin Chen]], [[Kuo-Chan Huang]], ''Solving Nonogram puzzles by using grouped based fully probing''. [[CG 2018]]
* [[Jan Krabbenbos]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''WSCC 2016: The World Speed Computer Chess Championship''. » [[WCCC 2016]]
* [[Wen-Jie Tseng]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[I-Chen Wu]], ''DarkKnight Wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament''. » [[19th Computer Olympiad#ChineseDarkChess|19th Computer Olympiad 2016]]
* [[Lars Sandin]], ''The SSDF Chess Engine Rating List''. » [[SSDF]]
* [[Guy Haworth]], ''Chess Endgame News''.
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** [[Marc Lanctot]], ''SIA Wins Surakarta Tournament''. » [[17th Computer Olympiad#Surakarta|17th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Alvin Levy]], ''The 17th World Computer Bridge Championship''.
* [[Jan-Jaap van Horssen]], ''The 27th Dutch Open Computer Rapid-Draughts Championship''.
* [[ICGA#Board|Board of ICGA]], ''The 2012 ICGA Journal Award''.
** [[Ping-Hung Lin]], [[I-Chen Wu]], [[Shun-Chin Hsu]], ''Bit wins Connect6 tournament''. » [[14th Computer Olympiad#Connect6|14th Computer Olympiad]]
** [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], ''Fuego wins 9x9 Go tournaments''.» [[14th Computer Olympiad#Go9x9|14th Computer Olympiad]]
** [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], //''Zen wins 19x19 Go tournaments//''. » [[14th Computer Olympiad#Go|14th Computer Olympiad]]
** [[Junichi Hashimoto]], ''Tacos wins Shogi tournament''. » [[14th Computer Olympiad#Shogi|14th Computer Olympiad]]
** [[Julien Kloetzer]], ''Invader wins Amazons tournament''. » [[14th Computer Olympiad#Amazons|14th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Frank Berger]], ''Backgammon at the 7th Computer Olympiad''. » [[7th Computer Olympiad#Backgammon|7th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Jos Uiterwijk]], ''The 7th Computer Olympiad - Report on the Computer-Games Workshop''. » [[7th Computer Olympiad#Workshop|7th Computer Olympiad Workshop]]
* [[Eli David|Omid David]], [[Nathan S. Netanyahu]],. ''Report on the Symposium Man vs. Machine: The Experiment''. [https://elidavid.com/pubs/haifa.pdf pdf] » [[Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003#Symposium|Man vs Machine Symposium]]
* [[Guy Haworth]], ''[http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4551/ The ICGA on the Web]''.
* [[Fernand Gobet]], ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-1.htm#HERBERT%20A.%20SIMON HERBERT A. SIMON (1916 - 2001): THE SCIENTIST OF THE ARTIFICIAL]''.
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===[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180713111144/https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htm ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2]=== * [[Guy Haworth]], [[Ernst A. Heinz]], ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180713111144/https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htmht#Ken Ken]''.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie Dennis Ritchie], ''[https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ken-games.html Ken, Unix, and Games]''.
* [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180713111144/https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htmht#KEN%20THOMPSON Ken Thompson's Influence on Computer Games Research]''. * [[Jaap van den Herik]], ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180713111144/https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htmht#THE%20BELL%20CAPTAIN The Bell Captain]''.
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]], ''Self-Play, Deep Search and Diminishing Returns.''
* [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]], ''Ken Thompson and DEEP BLUE''.
* [[John Tamplin]], [[Guy Haworth]], ''[http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4561/ Ken Thompson's 6-man Tables]''.
* [[Harold van der Heijden]], ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180713111144/https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htmht#ENDGAME%20TABLES Endgame Tables and Endgame Study Composition]''.
* [[Lewis Stiller]], ''Retrograde Analysis: Software Architecture''.
* [[Noam Elkies]], ''Endgame Tables and Chess Composition''.
* [[John Beasley]], ''Computer Discoveries in Losing Chess''.
* [[Václav Kotěšovec]], ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180713111144/https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htmht#KING King and Two Generalised Knights against King]''.* [[Ben Mittman]], ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180713111144/https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htmht#CLAUDE%20SHANNON OBITUARY CLAUDE SHANNON (1916 – 2001): PERSONAL MEMORIES]''. <ref>[http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/still-image/Mittman-Benjamin/Claude_Shannon_article_written_by_Ben_Mittman.2001.102665761.lg.jpg Claude Shannon article written by Ben Mittman]</ref>
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===[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-3.htm ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]===
* [[Robert Levinson]], [[Richard Snyder]], ''Distance: Toward the Unification of Chess Knowledge''. » [[Distance]]
* [[Shawn Benn]], [[Danny Kopec]], ''The Bratko-Kopec Test Recalibrated.'' [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_11_C.pdf pdf]
* [[Kevin J. Lang]], [[Warren D. Smith]], ''A Test Suite for Chess Programs''.
* [[Christian Posthoff]], [[Michael Schlosser]], ''[[Advances in Computer Chess 7|Advances in Computer Chess Conference 7]]''.
* [[Don Beal]], ''Report on the QMW 1993 Uniform-Platform Computer-Chess Championship.'' » [[UPCCC 1993]]
* [[Tom Draisma]], ''Report on the Third International Computer Olympiad, Maastricht, August 1991''. » [[3rd Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Jos Uiterwijk]], ''Chess Results and Games of the 3rd Computer Olympiad''. » [[3rd Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Reinhold Gellner]], [[Gaby von Rekowski]], ''[https://content.iospress.com/articles/icga-journal/icg14-3-22 Mind Over Mips]''.
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===ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4===
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==2016 Break==
Due to the vacancy of the Editor-in-Chief after Jaap van den Herik's retirement end of 2015 <ref>[https://icga.leidenuniv.nl/?p=1951 Editor-in-Chief Wanted | ICGA] by [[David Levy]], October 6, 2016</ref>, the ICGA Journal took a break in 2016. Publication is intended to continue with Volume 39 in 2017 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_Press IOS press], preprints available online for members <ref>[http://content.iospress.com/journals/icga-journal/Preprint/Preprint ICGA Journal - Volume Preprint, issue Preprint - Journals - IOS Press]</ref>. Editor-in-Chief will be [[I-Chen Wu]] - with the proposal of rotation every two years.
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=See also=
* [[ICGA#BestPublicationAwards|Best-Publication Awards]]
* [[Papers]]
* [[Recommended Reading]]

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