The Computer Olympiads are a multi-games event taking place every year in which computer programs compete against each other. The majority of the games are board games but other games such as Bridge take place as well. The Olympiad was originally held in either Maastricht or London, lately however, cities from around the world have hosted the Olympiad. A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players who form two partnerships, or sides. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. ... Maastricht (Limburgish and city dialect: Mestreech; French: Maestricht) is a municipality, and capital of the province of Limburg. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ...

For many board games the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to take the "world's best computer player" title.

History

The Olympiad was created in the 1980s by David Levy with the first contest taking place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London. David N L Levy (b. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ...

The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, after when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser. This resulted in the games being suspended until 2000 when the Mind Sports Olympiad resurrected them. This article is about the year 2000. ... Categories: Game stubs | Organization stubs | Organizations ...

Games

The games currently played are:

• Amazons
• Backgammon
• Bridge
• Chess
• Chinese Chess
• Clobber
• Dots and boxes
• Draughts
• 19x19 Go
• 9x9 Go
• Lines of Action
• Shogi
• Octi

Games which the Olympiad would like to run but have previously been unable to due to lack of entrants: Amazons is a board game invented by Walter Zamkauskas in 1988 as El Juego de las Amazonas. ... Close-up of modern backgammon set. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players who form two partnerships, or sides. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. ... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: hsiang-chi; (  listen)), is a two-player Chinese game in a family of strategic board games of which Western chess, Japanese shogi, and the more similar Korean janggi are also members. ... Dots and Boxes (also known as Boxes, Squares, Square-it, Dots and Dashes, or Dots) is a pencil and paper game for two players (or sometimes, more than two). ... starting position on a 10×10 draughts board Checkers or draughts (pronounced drafts), is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemys pieces. ... Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC. Go is a popular game in East Asia. ... Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC. Go is a popular game in East Asia. ... Lines of Action is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Claude Soucie. ... Shogi (将棋 shōgi) is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and xiangqi are also members, which derive from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof. ...

• Bao
• Gipf
• Hex
• Othello
• Poker
• Renju
• Scrabble

A foldable, wooden Mancala board Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called sowing games or count and capture games, which comes from the general gameplay. ... Gipf is a board game by Kris Burm, the first in his so-called Gipf project. ... Hex is a board game played on a hexagonal grid, usually in the shape of a 10 by 10 or a 11 by 11 rhombus. ... Screen dump of WZebra 4. ... Wikibooks Poker has more about this subject: Poker Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the remaining player or players with the... Renju (Japanese:連珠) is the professional variant of Gomoku, a Japanese board game. ... Scrabble is a popular word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15x15 game board. ...

Olympiads

• 11th Computer Olympiad - 2006, Torino, Italy.
• 10th Computer Olympiad - 2005, Taipei, Taiwan.
• 9th Computer Olympiad - 2004, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
• 8th Computer Olympiad - 2003, Graz, Austria.
• 7th Computer Olympiad - 2002, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• 6th Computer Olympiad - 2001, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• 5th Computer Olympiad - 2000, London, United Kingdom.
• 4th Computer Olympiad - 1992, London, United Kingdom.
• 3rd Computer Olympiad - 1991, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• 2nd Computer Olympiad - 1990, London, United Kingdom.
• 1st Computer Olympiad - 1989, London, United Kingdom.