Registration for Computer Olympiad 2016

Public forum discussion.

#1 · Ingo Althofer

29 Feb 2016

Hello all,

the Computer Olympiad 2016 will take place in Leiden (NL), organized by the ICGA. Start is on Monday, June 27. And everything will be finished on Sonday, July 03.

More details here: http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/

You can register for specific games at

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eMMw5-320zG8O-bz7IcSPN7oonD04ELFgok3azijv7k/viewform

Several of the games from LG will be played, for instance Amazons, Breakthrough, Connect6, Lines of Action, Chess, Go, Hex, Dots and Boxes, Draughts, EinStein, ...

The event is not only a competition but also the opportunity to meet friends and interesting people.

#2 · Tommah

2 Mar 2016

Thanks for the info! I am seriously considering going this year. When is the registration deadline?

#3 · Ingo Althofer

2 Mar 2016

Tommah wrote:

> Thanks for the info! I am seriously considering going this year. When is the registration deadline?

I think that so far no concrete deadline has been published. Anyhow, early registration helps the organizers.

In which games do you intend to participate? (The reason for this question is that the Olympiad is a rather personal affair. A game will be played only if there are at least two competitors. In certain cases at least three competitiors are required when more than a Gold medal will be awarded.)

Ingo.

#4 · Tommah

2 Mar 2016

Amazons, at least. I'll also look at the other games and see whether I want to try any of them.

#5 · Ingo Althofer

3 Mar 2016

Amazons, at least. I’ll also look at the other games and see whether I want to try any of them.

Amazons is indeed one of the most interesting games in the Olympiads.

Feel free to contact wanderer_bot. Its author, Richard Lorentz, is also involved in computer Amazons and may give you some hints.

Ingo.

#6 · Ingo Althofer

14 Jun 2016

Hi,

we are approaching the Computer Olympiads, to start in Leiden (NL) on June 27. Strong competitors have entered for Amazons and Breakthrough (4 bots each). A highlight will be Draughts (on 10x10 board) with 10 teams participating. "EInStein wurfelt nicht" will see seven starters: on each from the US, China, Japan, and Germany (team "Hanfried" from Jena, title defender) - and three from Taiwan. This year there even were National EWN computer Championships in Taiwan.

Of course, also classics like Chess, Go, and Hex will be played. And surprise: There is also an Othello competition with three bots to start. (Altogether 26 different games are announced.)

Feel free to visit the event. It is on Leiden University Campus, in the Snellius building (right wing, ground floor).

Ingo.

#7 · Paul Wiselius

22 Jun 2016

Hi Ingo,

I am not sure if I can attend, too much work to do on our house :(.

Is there a program which games are played what day and time?

Regards, Paul

#8 · wanderer_bot

22 Jun 2016

There is a tentative program (that is probably pretty close to how things will actually happen) in a pdf file, but I'm not sure the easiest way to make it publicly available. Suggestions welcome.

#9 · wccanard

22 Jun 2016

Cut and paste :-)

#10 · wanderer_bot

22 Jun 2016

I could do it selectively, but it would be nice to make all 25 pages available.

#11 · wanderer_bot

22 Jun 2016

This should work: Olympiad Schedule

#12 · Paul Wiselius

23 Jun 2016

It works :-). Thanx!

#13 · Ingo Althofer

25 Jun 2016

Sorry, I had not been looking here for some days.

One piece of information: Ewn will definitely start on Monday already, and likely for more than one hour. We have seven teams; each pairing will have 8 games. Winner of the tournament will be the program with the largest number of wins in total.

Ingo.

#14 · wccanard

26 Jun 2016

Although I can't make it to the tournament, I'd be very interested to hear what happened in the dots and boxes games (June 30th) and the Hex games (27-28/6 and 1-2/7). Perhaps the best place to put any information like this would be in the dots and boxes / hex forum. I wonder if William Frazer managed to get his database back into shape?