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 * [[image:icgalogo.jpg width="300" link="https://icga.leidenuniv.nl/"]] ||~  || The **ICGA**, the **International Computer Games Association**, was founded as the ICCA in 1977 by computer chess programmers to organize championship events for computer programs and to facilitate the sharing of technical knowledge via the ICGA Journal. ||
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 * to publish a quarterly ICGA Journal
 * to hold regular World Computer-Chess Championships, Computer Olympiads, and Advances in Computer Games conferences
 * to strengthen ties and to promote cooperation between computer-game researchers
 * to introduce computer games to the games world
 * to support national computer-games organizations and computer-games tournament organizers
 * President: David Levy
 * Vice-President: Ryan Hayward
 * Vice-President Asian Countries: Shun-Chin Hsu
 * Secretary-Treasurer: Hiroyuki Iida
 * Programmers Representative: Mark Lefler

=ICCA / ICGA Presidents=
 * ~ President ||~ Org. ||~ from ||~ until ||
 * Ben Mittman || ICCA || 1977 || 1983 ||
 * Monroe Newborn ||  || 1983 || 1986 ||
 * David Levy ||  || 1986 || 1992 ||
 * Tony Marsland ||  || 1992 || 1999 ||
 * David Levy || ICCA || 1999 || 2002 ||
 * David Levy || **ICGA** || 2002 ||  ||

=ICGA Events= > Tournament Rules
 * Advances in Computer Games
 * Computer Olympiad
 * World Chess Software Championship since 2010
 * World Computer Chess Championship
 * World Microcomputer Chess Championship until 2001

=Investigations=  =ICGA Topics=
 * ICGA Investigations
 * [|ICGA: Chess Endgames] compiled by Guy Haworth and colleagues » Endgame Tablebases
 * [|ICGA: Lines of Action] by Mark Winands » Lines of Action
 * [|ICGA: Losing Chess] by Guy Haworth
 * [|ICGA: Roshambo] by Guy Haworth

=History and Purpose of the ICGA= Renamed into the **ICGA** in 2002, the association now more broadly fosters the Computer Games community through its relationships with Computer Science, Commercial and Game organizations throughout the world. The **ICGA**'s broader scope reflects the more general way in which computer-game capability contributes to Artificial Intelligence and to the human experience of game-playing.

=Quotes=

Robert Hyatt
Robert Hyatt, 1997 in a rgcc post :

Jaap van den Herik
Jaap van den Herik in 2001 in //The Bell Captain// :  =Best-Publication Awards=

Mephisto Best-Publication Award
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Novag Best-Publication Award
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ChessBase Best-Publication Award
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Best-Publication Award
Winners of the Best-Publication Award 2011 ...
 * Sylvain Gelly, David Silver (**2011**). //Monte-Carlo tree search and rapid action value estimation in computer Go//. [|Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 175, No. 11
 * Yoji Ojima, Hideki Kato (**2012**). Go progam [|Zen], that beat a 9 dan professional player ([|Takemiya Masaki]) in a 19x19 Go game with 4 stones of handicap on March 17, 2012.
 * Abdallah Saffidine (**2013**). //Solving Games and All That//. Ph.D. thesis, Université Paris-Dauphine, advisor Tristan Cazenave, [|pdf]
 * Gerd Isenberg, Mark Lefler (**2014**). //The Chess Programming Wiki//. (Thank you)

ICGA Journal Awards
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 * [|ICGA Olympiad 2013: Yokohama, Aug 12-18!] by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, December 21, 2012
 * [|ICGA Computer Olympiad 2013: Yokohama, Aug 12-18] by Harm Geert Muller, Rybka Forum, December 21, 2012
 * [|WCCC 2015 Leiden] by Stefano Gemma, CCC, January 14, 2015
 * [|ICGA Facebook page] by Harvey Williamson, CCC, July 06, 2017

=External Links=
 * [|New ICGA website]
 * [|ICGA Tournament Database]
 * [|ICGA - Home | Facebook]
 * [|International Computer Games Association from Wikipedia]
 * [|International Computer Games Association (ICGA)], an [|Affiliated International Organizations] of FIDE

=References=
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