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		The Seventh Computer Olympiad took place from July 5 to 11, 2002, at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the Tenth World Computer Chess Championship. The Olympiad as well the WCCC were held in the former residence of the Gouvernor of Limburg in the historic center of Maastricht, Bouillonstraat 1-3, which now belongs to the Maastricht University. During the 7th Computer Olympiad the workshop on computer games was held, again organized by Jos Uiterwijk.
Maastricht University [1]

Results

Amazons

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P10	Medal
1	Amazong	DE	Jens Lieberum	9	Gold
2	8QP	NL	Johan de Koning	8	Silver
3	Invader	US	Richard J. Lorentz et al.	7	Bronze
4	Tanazon	JP	Yasushi Tanase	3
5	Aska	JP	Yoichiro Kajihara	3
6	Antiope	GR	Theodore Tegos	0

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Amazons Winners: Richard J. Lorentz, Jens Lieberum, Johan de Koning [3]

Backgammon

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P4	Medal
1.	BGBlitz	DE	Frank Berger	3	Gold
2.	GNU Backgammon	*	Achim Müller et al.	1	Silver

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Backgammon players: Achim Müller and Frank Berger [5]

Bridge

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#	Program	CC	Authors	Score	Medal
1	Wbridge5	FR	Yves Costel	161	Gold
2	Jack	NL	Hans Kuijf	131	Silver

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Chinese Chess

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P12	Medal
1	ELP	TW	Wu-Yao Cheng, Jr-Chang Chen, Shun-Chin Hsu	10½	Gold
2	Shiga 8.1	TW	Shi-Jim Yen, Ming-Cheng Cheng	7	Silver
3	XieXie	FR	Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo Jimenez	6	Bronze
4	Abyss '99	CA	Tony Marsland, Chun Ye	½

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Dots and Boxes

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P8	Medal
1	Control Freak	US	William Fraser	8	Gold
2	Seicho	JP	Hiroyuki Iida	0	Silver

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Draughts

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P16	Medal	Title
1	Dam 2.2	NL	Harm Jetten	13	Gold	World Computer Draughts Champion
2	DIOS 2002	NL	Eric van Riet Paap, Chris Jurriëns	12	Silver
3	Damage	NL	Bert Tuyt	11	Bronze
4	Flits	NL	Adri Vermeulen	11
5	Tornado	NL	Frank Mesander	9
6	ZaZen	NL	Ron van Bemmelen	7
7	TDKing	CH	Ton Tillemans	4
8	Cerberus	NL	Leo Nagels	3
9	Dream	FR	Saïd Koudache	2

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Playing Hall with Draughts Tournament, Vincent Diepeveen interested [11]

Go

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19x19

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P8	Playoff	Medal
1	Go 4++	GB	Michael Reiss	8		Gold
2	Go Intellect	US	Ken Chen	5	1	Silver
3	GNU Go	*	Arend Bayer, Daniel Bump, Gunnar Farnebäck, Heikki Levanto, Paul Pogonyshev, Inge Wallin et al. [13]	5	0	Bronze
4	Star of DongHwa	TW	Shi-Jim Yen	2
5	Ether	TW	Farmer Lu	0

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9x9

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P12	Playoff	Medal
1	Go 4++	GB	Michael Reiss	8		Gold
2	GNU Go	*	Arend Bayer, Daniel Bump, Gunnar Farnebäck, Heikki Levanto, Paul Pogonyshev, Inge Wallin et al.	7	3	Silver
3	Go Intellect	US	Ken Chen	7	1	Bronze
4	Magog	NL	Erik van der Werf, Mark Winands, Levente Kocsis	2

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The Magog team at the 7th Computer Olympiad 2002. Mark Winands, Levente Kocsis, Erik van der Werf [15]

Lines of Action

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P12		Medal
1	YL	IS	Yngvi Björnsson	10½	Gold
2	MIA III	NL	Mark Winands	8½	Silver
3	(T-T)	JP	Jun Nagashima	5	Bronze
4	Pete	SE	Inge Wallin	0

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Shogi

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P8	Playoff	Medal
1	ISshogi	JP	Yasushi Tanase, Akihiro Kishimoto, Norifumi Gotoh	6	3	Gold
2	Kanazawa Shogii	JP	Shinichiro Kanazawa	6	1	Silver
3	Shotest 5.6	GB	Jeff Rollason	4	2	Bronze
4	Tacos	JP	Hiroyuki Iida, Yoichiro Kajihara et al.	4	0
5	Spear	JP	Reijer Grimbergen	0

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Yasushi Tanase and Jeff Rollason in ISshogi vs. Shotest [19]

See also

• CG 2002
• WCCC 2002

Publications

• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3
  Hans Kuijf (2002). Bridge at the 7th Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Ken Chen (2002). GO4++ wins 19x19 Go tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Erik van der Werf (2002). GO4++ wins 9x9 Go tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Richard J. Lorentz (2002). First-time entry Amazong wins Amazons tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Yngvi Björnsson, Mark Winands (2002). YL wins Lines of Action tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Jr-Chang Chen, Shi-Jim Yen, Shun-Chin Hsu (2002). ELP wins Chinese Chess tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Yasushi Tanase (2002). ISshogi wins Shogi tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Jaap Bus (2002). Dam 2.2 wins Draughts tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Control Freak wins Dots-and-Boxes tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Frank Berger (2002). BGBlitz wins Backgammon tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
• Frank Berger (2002). Backgammon at the 7th Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 » 7th Computer Olympiad
• Jos Uiterwijk (2002). The 7th Computer Olympiad - Report on the Computer-Games Workshop. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4
• Mark Winands (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad. IKAT, Maastricht University, pdf

Workshop

During the 7th Computer Olympiad a workshop on computer games was held, on the evenings of July 6, 7 and 8, again organized by Jos Uiterwijk from IKAT at Maastricht University ^{[20] [21] [22]}

Lectures

• Jos Uiterwijk (ed.) (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad: Computer-Games Workshop Proceedings. CS 02-03, IKAT, Maastricht University

1. Brian Sheppard (2002). An Overview of Computer Play of Scrabble. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
2. Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Dynamic-Information Games. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
3. Mark Winands, Levente Kocsis, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (2002). Learning in Lines of Action. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop ^{[23] [24]}
4. Rémi Coulom (2002). Treemaps for Search-Tree Visualization. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
5. Jonathan Schaeffer (2002). Solving the Games People Play. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
6. Jeroen Donkers, Jos Uiterwijk (2002). Programming Bao. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
7. Jun Nagashima (2002). Realization-Probability Search: Its application to Shogi and LOA. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
8. Richard J. Lorentz (2002). Finding Territory in Amazons. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
9. Eugène Nalimov (2002). Chess Endgame Tablebases. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
10. Erik van der Werf (2002). Solving Ponnuki-Go on Small Boards. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop ^[25]
11. Ingo Althöfer (2002). Inventing Game Variants with Computer Help. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
12. Guy Haworth (2002). Self-play: Statistical Significance. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
13. Guy Haworth (2002). Reference Fallible Endgame Play. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, pdf
14. Yngvi Björnsson (2002). The Game Programmer’s Toolbox. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop

Photos

Eugène Nalimov,winner of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award and Guest of Honor at Workshop, during his invited Lecture, July 8, 2002 ^[26]

Schoolboys listening to what ...		Nalimov says about ...
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Rudolf Huber, Levente Kocsis, Frans Morsch, Johan de Koning and Jan Krabbenbos		... Chess Endgame Tablebases

Forum Posts

• Tony Marsland and Chinese Chess in Maastricht (slightly O.T.) by Omid David, CCC, July 30, 2002
  Re: Tony Marsland and Chinese Chess in Maastricht (slightly O.T.) by Pham Hong Nguyen, CCC, July 30, 2002

External Links

• Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
• Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
• 7th Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
• 7th Computer Olympiad
• 7th Computer Olympiad - Workshop
• Welcome to a Computer-Games Minded Maastricht, ChessBase News, June 28, 2002 (ICGA Press Release)
• BGBlitz at Maastricht 2002 - Computer Olympiad - Maastricht 2002 by Frank Berger

References

1. ^ Building Gouvernement, former residence of the Gouvernor of Limburg. Now a part of the University. Build around 1935 and designed by G.C. Bremer, Image by Brbbl, June 14, 2009, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, Maastricht University from Wikipedia
2. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Amazons - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
3. ^ ICGA: Amazons by Richard J. Lorentz
4. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Backgammon - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
5. ^ BGBlitz at Maastricht 2002 - Computer Olympiad - Maastricht 2002 by Frank Berger
6. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Bridge - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
7. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Chinese Chess - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
8. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Dots and Boxes - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
9. ^ Dots and Boxes from Wikipedia
10. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Draughts - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
11. ^ BGBlitz at Maastricht 2002 - Computer Olympiad - Maastricht 2002 by Frank Berger
12. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Go - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
13. ^ GNU Go - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
14. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Go (9x9) - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
15. ^ MAGOG
16. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Lines of Action - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
17. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad, Shogi - Maastricht 2002 (ICGA Tournaments)
18. ^ Yasushi Tanase (2002). ISshogi wins Shogi tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3
19. ^ Image from 7th Computer Olympiad
20. ^ 7th Computer Olympiad - Workshop
21. ^ Mark Winands (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad. IKAT, Maastricht University, pdf
22. ^ Jos Uiterwijk (2002). The 7th Computer Olympiad - Report on the Computer-Games Workshop. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4
23. ^ Publications - Maastricht University
24. ^ Mark Winands, Levente Kocsis, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (2002). Temporal difference learning and the Neural MoveMap heuristic in the game of Lines of Action. GAME-ON 2002, pdf
25. ^ Erik van der Werf, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (2002). Solving Ponnuki-Go on Small Boards. BNAIC’02, pdf
26. ^ Eugene Nalimov: Winner of the ChessBase Award and Guest of Honor in Maastricht by Eric van Reem, ChessBase Events, July 9, 2002 (archived)

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