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The Advances in Computer Games conference will be held online November 28-30. The call for papers can be found here. We want to hear about your exciting, innovative work in game AI!

The Computer Olympiad will be held at the end of August through to early September. More details coming soon. Start preparing/tuning your program. Why resist the chance to become a World Champion?

We are still working on setting up the World Computer Chess Championships. Hopefully we will have exciting news soon. Don’t wait for the announcement; time to accelerate your plans for improving the program’s strength.

Our biennial Computers and Games conference is November 22-24. Registration is free (information is here). The conference is online and features four keynote talks and 15 research papers. The keynote speakers are:

• Murray Campbell (IBM TJ Watson)
• Matt Ginsberg (Google X)
• Olivier Teytaud (Meta AI Research)
• Tao Qin (Microsoft Research)

Join us for three days of research, education, and fun as we explore advancing the state of the art in AI applied to games.

The 2022 Computer Olympiad featured 18 games with 53 competitors. Thank you to all the participants for a successful event. The final results can be found here. Start planning for our 2023 Olympiad!

Due to time constraints on the Friday afternoon, the World Computer Speed Chess ended almost at closing time. This tournament ended with both Leela Chess Zero and Ginkgo on top of the ranking list. And therefore the decision was made to call both programs World Champion Computer Speed Chess 2022. Congratulations to both teams!

After a tense play-off on Friday, an Armageddon game between Komodo Dragon and Leela Chess Zero was necessary. As this game also ended in a draw, Komodo Dragon is the new (and old) World Computer Chess Champion. Congratulations to Mark Lefler, Larry Kaufmann, Erdo Gunes and the team!

Today the World Computer Chess Championships have started in Vienna, Austria. This tournaments lasts until Friday, with three games per day and one on Friday.

After the play-off with two games 10 minutes + 10 seconds per move everything was equal again. To find a winner of the tournament, an Armageddon game was played with white having 6 minutes + 10 seconds per move and black 3 minutes + 5 minutes per move. This game resulted in a draw by repetition and therefore the winner of this tournament is Ginkgo.

The organisation congratulates Ginkgo, his programmer Frank Schneider and operator Wolfgang Zugrav!

Posted daily here.

In the Messe Wien in Vienna, the World Chess Software Championship has started. All information can be found on the following page https://icga.org/?page_id=3539. You can also reach that page through the menu!

Live games: https://view.livechesscloud.com/#175173b0-40c4-4e33-8b23-a4e6d6ea0d92

July 14 is the last day to register for the Computer Olympiad. The Olympiad starts in 10 days and it is being held online. Check back on this page for results.