Computer Olympiad 2020

The 2020 Computer Olympiad will be held online. You must register by November 23, and the awards ceremony is December 15.

We are delighted to be using the Ludii software to conduct the Olympiad competitions. “Ludii is a general game system designed to play, evaluate and design a wide range of games, including board games, card games, dice games, mathematical games, and so on.” There are over 300 games currently available on the Ludii site. For many of them, you have the chance to build the world’s best AI! Ludii has an appealing graphical user interface, as well as many useful tools for the game competitor.

Note that for some competitions, if all the competitors agree, an established non-Ludii site can be used for the Olympiad competition. For example, a few popular games have established servers that facilitate computer-versus-computer play. It may be more convenient for competitors to use a site they are familiar with, rather than having to build a Ludii interface.

Games

In recent Olympiads, the following games have been contested. If your favorite games is not on this list and you know that there are at least two potential entrants, please contact us and we can add a new game to the Olympiad.

Amazons, Block Go, Breakthrough, Chinese chess, Chinese checkers, Chinese dark chess, Clobber, Connect6, Dice Shogi, Dots and Boxes, Draughts/Checkers, EinStein Würfelt Nicht, Go, Gomoku, Hex 11×11, Hex 11×13, Kyoto Shogi, Mahjong, Minishogi, Nonogram, Othello, Outer-Open Gomoku, Shogi, Surakarta, etc.

September 20: Interest has been expressed in these games.

Important Dates

  • November 23: last day to register for the Olympiad
  • November 25 – 29: participants arrange their schedule of games. This is a new and important change to the Rules.
  • November 30 – December 9: all round-robin games must be played (two games between each opponent; more if the participants have agreed to this beforehand)
  • December 10: playoff opponents determined
  • December 11 – December 14: Playoff games played
  • December 15: Awards ceremony

Awards

Each event will award a gold medal, and silver and bronze medals depending on the number of entries. Medal winners will receive a certificate and the right to hold the title <Gold/Silver/Bronze> Medal winner at the 2020 ICGA Computer Olympiad.

Registration

40 Euro for each program entry. A person is allowed to have an entry in multiple competitions. At least one member from each team must be a member of the ICGA. Registration for the Olympiad is open!

Interfacing to Ludii

Information on how to connect your AI program to Ludii can be found at the Luddi site (under “Creating a Ludii agent“).

Rules

The rules for an online Olympiad are a work in progress. Please look at them carefully, as there are changes over previous years: Computer Olympiad 2020 Rules.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Cameron Browne and the Ludii team for adding the network interface to their system. Their support for the ICGA Computer Olympiad is greatly appreciated!

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