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Winners of the [[ChessBase#BestPublicationAward|ChessBase]] [[Template:ChessBase Best-Publication Award|Best-Publication Award]] 1999-2010:
* [[Ernst A. Heinz|Ernst Heinz]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/node1.html#scale-cchess Scalable Search in Computer Chess].''
* [[Eugene Nalimov]] ('''2000'''). [[Nalimov Tablebases|Endgame Tablebases]]
* [[John Romein]] ('''2001'''). ''Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit Vrije Universiteit], supervisor [[Henri Bal]], [http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/1871/11305/1/5429.pdf pdf]
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2002'''). ''Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University]], [http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=7134 pdf]
* [[Jeroen Donkers]] ('''2003'''). ''Nosce Hostem - Searching with Opponent Models''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University|Universiteit Maastricht]], [http://www.fdg.unimaas.nl/educ/donkers/pubs/..%5Cpdf%5Cnoscehostem.pdf pdf]
* [[Mark Winands]] ('''2004'''). ''Informed Search in Complex Games''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University|Universiteit Maastricht]], [http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/m-winands/documents/informed_search.pdf pdf]
* [[Akihiro Kishimoto]] ('''2005'''). ''Correct and Efficient Search Algorithms in the Presence of Repetitions''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Alberta]], [http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/%7Ekishi/pdf_file/kishi_phd_thesis.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Papers/billings-phd.html Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Alberta]]
* [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]], [[Akihiro Kishimoto]], [[Martin Müller]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Steve Sutphen]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/317/5844/1518.abstract Checkers is Solved]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_%28journal%29 Science], Vol. 317, no. 5844
: [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Akihiro Kishimoto]], [[Martin Müller]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Steve Sutphen]] ('''2005'''). ''Solving Checkers''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2005|IJCAI 2005]], [http://www.ru.is/faculty/yngvi/pdf/SchaefferBBKMLLS05.pdf pdf]
* [[Guillaume Chaslot]], [[Mark Winands]], [[Jos Uiterwijk]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bruno Bouzy]] ('''2008'''). ''Progressive Strategies for Monte-Carlo Tree Search''. [http://www.worldscinet.com/nmnc/nmnc.shtml New Mathematics and Natural Computation], Vol. 4, No. 3
* [[Olivier Teytaud]], [[Jean-Yves Audibert]], [[Guillaume Chaslot]], [[Louis Chatriot]], [[Christophe Fiter]], [[Sylvain Gelly]], [[Rémi Munos]], [[Jean-Baptiste Hoock]], [[Julien Pérez]], [[Arpad Rimmel]], [[Yizao Wang]], [[Thomas Hérault]], [[Vincent Danjean]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournament/program.php?id=515 MoGo] that won: one 19x19 [[Go]] game with 6-stone handicap vs a professional player, one 19x19 Go game with 7-stone handicap vs a professional player, one 9x9 Go game as Black vs a professional player''.
* [[Shih-Chieh Huang]], [[Rémi Coulom]] ('''2010'''). ''[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournament/program.php?id=530 Erica], the [[Go]] Program that won the [[15th Computer Olympiad#Go|Go 2010 Computer Olympiad]]''.
* [[Ernst A. Heinz|Ernst Heinz]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/node1.html#scale-cchess Scalable Search in Computer Chess].''
* [[Eugene Nalimov]] ('''2000'''). [[Nalimov Tablebases|Endgame Tablebases]]
* [[John Romein]] ('''2001'''). ''Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit Vrije Universiteit], supervisor [[Henri Bal]], [http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/1871/11305/1/5429.pdf pdf]
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2002'''). ''Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University]], [http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=7134 pdf]
* [[Jeroen Donkers]] ('''2003'''). ''Nosce Hostem - Searching with Opponent Models''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University|Universiteit Maastricht]], [http://www.fdg.unimaas.nl/educ/donkers/pubs/..%5Cpdf%5Cnoscehostem.pdf pdf]
* [[Mark Winands]] ('''2004'''). ''Informed Search in Complex Games''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University|Universiteit Maastricht]], [http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/m-winands/documents/informed_search.pdf pdf]
* [[Akihiro Kishimoto]] ('''2005'''). ''Correct and Efficient Search Algorithms in the Presence of Repetitions''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Alberta]], [http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/%7Ekishi/pdf_file/kishi_phd_thesis.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Papers/billings-phd.html Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Alberta]]
* [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]], [[Akihiro Kishimoto]], [[Martin Müller]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Steve Sutphen]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/317/5844/1518.abstract Checkers is Solved]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_%28journal%29 Science], Vol. 317, no. 5844
: [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Akihiro Kishimoto]], [[Martin Müller]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Steve Sutphen]] ('''2005'''). ''Solving Checkers''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2005|IJCAI 2005]], [http://www.ru.is/faculty/yngvi/pdf/SchaefferBBKMLLS05.pdf pdf]
* [[Guillaume Chaslot]], [[Mark Winands]], [[Jos Uiterwijk]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bruno Bouzy]] ('''2008'''). ''Progressive Strategies for Monte-Carlo Tree Search''. [http://www.worldscinet.com/nmnc/nmnc.shtml New Mathematics and Natural Computation], Vol. 4, No. 3
* [[Olivier Teytaud]], [[Jean-Yves Audibert]], [[Guillaume Chaslot]], [[Louis Chatriot]], [[Christophe Fiter]], [[Sylvain Gelly]], [[Rémi Munos]], [[Jean-Baptiste Hoock]], [[Julien Pérez]], [[Arpad Rimmel]], [[Yizao Wang]], [[Thomas Hérault]], [[Vincent Danjean]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournament/program.php?id=515 MoGo] that won: one 19x19 [[Go]] game with 6-stone handicap vs a professional player, one 19x19 Go game with 7-stone handicap vs a professional player, one 9x9 Go game as Black vs a professional player''.
* [[Shih-Chieh Huang]], [[Rémi Coulom]] ('''2010'''). ''[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournament/program.php?id=530 Erica], the [[Go]] Program that won the [[15th Computer Olympiad#Go|Go 2010 Computer Olympiad]]''.
