12th Computer Olympiad

The 12th Computer Olympiad was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in conjunction with the 15th World Computer Chess Championship and Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007).

IBM, SARA Computing and Networking Services and NCF (Foundation of National Computing Facilities) are enabling the organization of the Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007) (15–17 June 2007), the 15th World Computer-Chess Championship (WCCC) (11–18 June) and the 12th Computer Olympiad (CO) (11–18 June) was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Location: CGW2007 (The Turing hall - Z011), WCCC (Eulerzaal – Z009) and Computer Olympiad (Newtonzaal – Z010) , Science Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam.

Medals Awarded

Amazons (2 participants)

1. 8 Queens Problem (Johann de Koning) (NL)
2. Campya (Julien Kloetzer) (FRA)

Backgammon (3 participants)

1. Bgblitz (Frank Berger) (DEU)
2. GNU Backgammon
3. MCgammon (Guillaume Chaslot, François van Lieshout) (BEL)

Chess ( participants)

1. Rybka (Vasik Rajlich) (US)
2. Zappa (Anthony Cozie, Erdogan Günes) (Turkey)
3. Loop (Fritz Reul) (DE)
4. GridChess (Kai Himstedt, Ulf Lorenz, ...) (DE) and Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (DE)

Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, Zappa and Loop were moved up, and GridChess and Shredder jointly awarded third place.

Chinese Chess (5 participants)

1. NeuChess (Jiao Wang) (CHN)
2. Shiga (Ming-Cheng Cheng, Shi-Jim Yen) (TWN)
3. XieXie (Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo, Jih Tung Pai) (FRA)

Connect6 (4 participants)

1. X6 (John Moon-Liou, Shi-Jim Yen) (TWN)
2. MeinStein (Theo van der Storm) (NL)
3. Kavalan (Shi-Jim Yen) (TWN)

International draughts (7 participants)

1. Dam 2.2 (Harm Jetten) (NL)
2. TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (CHE)
3. Sjende Blyn (Jelle Wiersma) (NL)

Go 19×19 (8 participants)

1. MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang) (FRA)
2. Crazy Stone (Rémi Coulom) (FRA)
3. GNU Go

Go 9×9 (10 participants)

1. Steenvreter (Erik van der Werf) (NL)
2. MoGo (Sylvain Gelly) (FRA)
3. Crazy Stone (Rémi Coulom) (FRA)

Shogi (3 participants)

1. Tacos (Jun Nagashima, Hiroyuki Iida, Hashimoto Tsuyoshi) (JPN)
2. Reiki (Satoshi Todoroki) (JPN)
3. HIT+SS (Shohei Seike, Takeshi Ito, Ryosuke Ohguchi) (JPN)

Phantom Go (2 participants)

1. GoLois (Tristan Cazenave) (FRA)
2. InTheDark (Joris Bosboom) (NL)

Surakarta (2 participants)

1. SIA (Mark Winands) (NL)
2. Incognito (Irmin Auwerda) (NL)

External links

• Official home page
• Computer Games Workshop