ICGA

Planning is underway for…

• Computers and Games conference, online, tentatively November. Start writing your paper!
• Computer Olympiad, online and possibly hybrid, tentatively July 23-29. Start improving your program!
• World Computer Chess Championship, co-located with the IJCAI conference (Vienna, Austria), July 23-29. Start planning your holiday to participate/attend this important event, first contested in 1974!

If you want more information, pleas contact jonathan@ualberta.ca. We expect to finalize details by the end of March.

The Advances in Computer Games conference (November 23-25) is open for registration. It’s free! Register here.

With three keynote talks and 22 refereed papers, its going to be an educational, inspirational, and fun event.

The Olympiad is done! See the results here. Please join me in thanking all the participants and congratulating all the winners.

Register for the Olympiad here. The deadline is August 18.

It is with deep sadness that I let our community know that Guy Haworth has passed away. To readers of the ICGA Journal, you will recognize his name as being a prolific contributor especially on the subjects of chess tablebases and the TCEC chess competitions. He was a low-key but passionate supporter of the ICGA’s mission. It was a privilege for me to have worked with him.

Our heartfelt sympathies go out to his wife Annette and sons Alex and Ben.

The latest information on this year’s Olympiad can be found here. The deadline for registration is August 18. Go for the gold!

The Advances in Computer Games conference will be held online this year. It is tentatively scheduled for the week of November 22, with a paper submission deadline of September 20. Details can be found here.

Please consider submitting a paper. We look forward to finding out about the latest advances in AI applied to computer games.

The 2021 Computer Olympiad will be held the last two weeks of August. It’s time to start debugging, tuning your code, reading the latest research advances, adding new ideas to your program, and preparing to go for the gold!

The 2020 Computer Olympiad is over. We had 72 entries competing in 21 tournaments. The final results are here. Thank you to all the competitors for participating. Thank you for Hiroyuki Iida and I-Chen Wu for their organizational efforts.

There were over 70 entries to the Olympiad, resulting in 21 tournaments. Follow the competition results here. Best wishes to all the competitors for an exciting and fun competition.