15th Computer Olympiad

The 15th Computer Olympiad, 18th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games was held in Kanazawa, Japan, September 24 to October 2, 2010.

World Computer Chess Champion

Chess (10 participants)

1. Rybka (Vasik Rajlich) (US)
2. Rondo (Anthony Cozzie, Zach Wegner) (US), Thinker (Kerwin Medina) (US)
3. Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (DE)

Rybka was retroactively disqualified from ICCC events due to findings of plagiarism. Therefore, the Championship title was awarded jointly to Rondo and Thinker. Shredder was given third place.

Chess (Software) (9 participants)

1. Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (DE)
2. Rondo (Anthony Cozzie, Zach Wegner) (US)
3. Thinker (Kerwin Medina) (US)

Chess (Blitz)

1. Rybka (Vasik Rajlich) (US)
2. Jonny (Johannes Zwanzger, Mark Roberts) (DE), Shredder (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi) (DE)

Likewise, Jonny and Shredder were awarded the blitz championship after Rybka's disqualification.

Medals Awarded (Computer Olympiad)

Amazons (7 participants) (The winners are not currently known)

Chinese Chess (5 participants)

1. Shiga (Ming-Cheng Cheng, Shi-Jim Yen) (TWN)
2. TMSK (Bing-Jie Shen, Ruei-Ping Li, Tsan-Sheng Hsu) (TWN)
3. Chimo (Wen-Jie Tseng, Wei-Lun Kao, Hung-Hsuan Lin, Chun-Bin Hsu, I-Chen Wu, Shun-Chin Hsu) (TWN)

Chinese Dark Chess (6 participants) (The winners are not currently known)

Clobber (1 participant)

1. Pan.exe (Johan de Koning) (NL)

Pan.exe won by default, as there were no other entrants.

Connect6 (8 participants) (The winners are not currently known)

Dots and Boxes (2 participants)

1. The Shark (William Fraser) (US)
2. BITPanda (Xiong Yanchao, Zhang Yuting) (CH)

Draughts (2 participants)

1. TDKing (Ton Tillemans) (CHE)
2. Rocky (Mark Winands) (NLD)

Go (8 participants)

1. Erica (Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom) (TW)
2. Zen (Yamato) (JPN)
3. Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (US)

Go (13x13) (10 participants)

1. Many Faces of Go (David Fotland) (US)
2. Fuego (Markus Enzenberger, Martin Müller, Broderick Arneson, Richard Segal, Gerald Tesauro, Arpad Rimmel) (CAN)
3. MoGo (Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang, Olivier Teytaud, Jean-Baptiste Hoock, Guillaume Chaslot, Arpad Rimmel) (FRA)

Go (9x9) (14 participants)

1. MyGoFriend (Frank Karger) (UK)
2. Fuego (Markus Enzenberger, Martin Müller, Broderick Arneson, Richard Segal, Gerald Tesauro) (CAN)
3. Erica (Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom) (TW)

Hex (5 participants) (winners unknown)

Shogi (9 participants)

1. Gekisashi (Takashi Maruyama, Takumi Ouchi, Ryuji Takase, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Daisaku Yokoyama) (JP)
2. Shueso (Akira Takeuchi) (JP)
3. GPS Shogi (Tetsuro Tanaka) (JP)

Minishogi (9 participants)

1. Clair 1/128 (Takuya Obata) (JP)
2. Shokidoki 0.8 (Harm Geert Muller) (NL)
3. 55TACOS (Tsuyoshi Hashimoto) (JP)

Havannah (5 participants) (winners unknown)

Light Up (2 participants)

1. Cpuzzler (Shi-Yuan Chiu) (TW)
2. PCCU (Shi-Jim Yen) (TW)

Cpuzzler was awarded the silver medal.

Nonograms (2 participants)

1. Cpuzzler (Shi-Yuan Chiu) (TW)
2. Enigma (Jr-Chang Chen, Chou Cheng-Wei) (TW)

Cpuzzler was awarded the bronze medal

Nurikabe (3 participants) Cpuzzler (Shi-Yuan Chiu) (TW), Enigma (Jr-Chang Chen, Chou Cheng-Wei) (TW), happyNuri (Derjhong Sun, I-Chen Wu) (TW)

(winners unknown)

Phantom Go (3 participants) GoLois (Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau) (FRA), Moccos (Takuma Toyoda) (JP), IcySoftwoodWine (Yuji Abe) (JP)

(scores unknown)

Quoridor (4 participants)

(winners unknown)

Surakarta (3 participants)

1. SIA (Mark Winands) (NL)
2. Qiyi (Jiajia Guo, Xiaomeng Yang, Liang Yunzhao, Jianbo Zhao) (CH)
3. BITPanda (Xiong Yanchao, Zhang Yuting) (CH)

External links

• Official home page at ICGA
• Official home page at JAIST