10th Computer Olympiad

The 10th Computer Olympiad took place in Taipei, Taiwan from 3 September 2005 to 6 September 2005. As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons, Chinese Chess, Clobber, Dots and Boxes, Computational Pool (billiards), Go, and Shogi.

The 11th Advances in Computer Games was also held at the same location and time as the Olympiad.

The organizing committee for the 10th edition was: H.H.L.M. Donkers, M. Greenspan, J.W. Hellemons (chair), T-s Hsu, H.J. van den Herik, and M. Tiessen.

Medals Awarded

Amazons (3 participants)

1. 8QP (J. de Koning) (NL)
2. Invader (Avetisyan) (USA)
3. TAS (Y. Higashiuchi) (JAP)

Chinese Chess (14 participants)

1. XQMASTER (Z. Mingyang) (China)
2. SHIGA (S.-J. Yen) (Taiwan)
3. NEUCHESS (W. Jiao) (China)

Clobber (2 participants)

1. MILA (M. Winands) (NL)
2. ClobberA (J. Willemson) (Estonia)

Dots and Boxes (3 participants)

1. Deep Beige (D. Bochenski) (UK)
2. Beige Watch (R. Weston) (UK)
3. ALSOB (P. Bailey) (UK)

Go 19×19 (7 participants)

1. Hand Talk (C. Zhixing) (China)
2. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
3. Aya (H. Yamashita) (JAP)

Go 9×9 (9 participants)

1. Go Intellect (K-H. Chen) (USA)
2. Aya (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
3. Indigo (B. Bouzy) (FRA)

Pool (4 participants)

1. UofA (M. Smith) (CAN)
2. PoolMaster (J.-F. Landry) (CAN)
3. Elix (M. Godard) (CAN)

Shogi (4 participants)

1. Tacos (H. Iida) (JAP)
2. YSS (H. Yamashita) (JAP)
3. Spear (R. Grimbergen) (JAP)

Trivia

Hand Talk, which won the Gold medal in Computer Go, was original written in assembly language by a retired chemistry professor of Sun Yat-sen University, China.

See also

• board games
• artificial intelligence
• Computer Go

External links

• Official home page
• Detailed results and game records