{"id":3818,"date":"2023-05-28T21:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icga.org\/?page_id=3818"},"modified":"2023-06-29T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:06:11","slug":"computer-olympiad-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icga.org\/?page_id=3818","title":{"rendered":"Computer Olympiad 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2023 Computer Olympiad will be held online. You must register by August 7, and play will commence on August 15. As in past online Olympiads, competitors for a game will agree on a playing venue (many games have a standard online platform; sometimes play is done manually over the Internet; even better is to have the programs use the <a href=\"https:\/\/ludii.games\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ludii.games\">Ludii<\/a> interface).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Games<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent Olympiads have had competitions for following games: <strong>Amazons, Arimaa, Ataxx, Brazilian Draughts, Breakthrough, Canadian Draughts, Chinese Checkers, Chinese Chess,\u00a0Chinese Dark Chess, Clobber, Connect6, Dice Shogi, Dots and Boxes, EinStein W\u00fcrfelt Nicht,\u00a0Go (9&#215;9), Havannah (8&#215;8), Havannah (10&#215;10), Hex (11&#215;11),\u00a0Hex (13&#215;13), Hex (19&#215;19), HoneyMoon Bridge, International Draughts, Kyoto Shogi, Lines of Action, Mahjong, Mini Shogi, Nonogram, Othello (8&#215;8), Othello (10&#215;10), Outer-Open Gomoku,\u00a0Santorini, Surakarta, <\/strong>and<strong> Sylver\u00a0Coinage.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Dates<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>August 7: last day to register for the Olympiad<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>August 14: registration fees must be paid<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>August 15-29: competition<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &lt;Gold\/Silver\/Bronze&gt; Medal winner at the 2023 ICGA Computer Olympiad.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/icga.org\/?page_id=3093\">member of the ICGA<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSerGoJYVfTsr-z1gRg1yyOON17qVqMxby6_iRyqDrLYz_dIZw\/viewform?vc=0&amp;c=0&amp;w=1&amp;flr=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Interfacing to Ludii<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information on how to connect your AI program to Ludii can be found at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ludii.games\">Ludii<\/a>\u00a0site (under \u201c<em>Creating a Ludii Agent<\/em>\u201c).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rules<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Olympiad rules can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/icga.org\/?page_id=3146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Acknowledgements<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Hiroyuki Iida (<a href=\"iida@jaist.ac.jp\">iida@jaist.ac.jp<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Jonathan Schaeffer (<a href=\"mailto:jonathan@ualberta.ca\">jonathan@ualberta.ca<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Computer Olympiad will be held online. You must register by August 7, and play will commence on August 15. 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