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Chinese Dark Chess (暗棋),
a popular version of Banqi, a variation of Chinese Chess that only uses half of the board, also called dark chess, half chess or blind chess. Chinese dark chess is a two-player zero-sum and incomplete information board game.

Photos

Yokohama 2013 award ceremony Chinese Dark Chess, Hung-Jui Chang (Operator Yahari, Bronze), Wen-Jie Tseng (DarkKnight, Gold), Cheng-Wei Chou (Diablo, Silver), and Jaap van den Herik [1]

Tournaments

Date		Event		Rank 1		Rank 2		Rank 3		Rank 4		Rank 5
2010/09		TAAI 2010		Flipper		Dark Chess Beta		Leave or Lose		-		-
2010/10		15th Computer Olympiad		Modark		Dark Chess Beta		Leave or Lose		Flipper		Dark chesser
2011/06		TCGA 2011		Diablo		Leave-or-Lose		Dark chesser		Flipper		Piranha
2011/11		TAAI 2011		Diablo		DarkCraft		Dark chesser		?
2011/11		16th Computer Olympiad		DarkCraft		Dark chesser		Diablo		TopGun		-
2012/07		TCGA 2012		Diablo		Flipper		TuxedoCat		Darkness, Dark Chesser
2012/11		TAAI 2012		Diablo		Flipper, Darkness				TuxedoCat
2013/06		TCGA 2013		DarkKnight		SGTDark		Darkness		?		?
2013/08		17th Computer Olympiad		DarkKnight		Diablo		Yahari		Flipper		Darkness
2013/12		TAAI 2013		Yahari		?
2014/06		TCGA 2014		Yahari		DarkKnight		Observer		TuxedoCat		Diablo
2015/07		18th Computer Olympiad		DarkKnight		Yahari		Observer		TuxedoCat		Darkness
2016/07		19th Computer Olympiad		DarkKnight		Yahari		NewbieDarkChess		Observer		Dancing
2017/07		20th Computer Olympiad		DarkKnight		PupilDarkChess		Yahari

See also

• KriegSpiel
• Phantom Go

Publications

2010 ...

• Bo-Nian Chen, Bing-Jie Shen, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2010). Chinese Dark Chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2
• Shi-Jim Yen, Shih-Yuan Chiu, I-Chen Wu (2010). Modark wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4 » 15th Computer Olympiad
• Shi-Jim Yen, Cheng-Wei Chou, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, Kuo-Yuan Kao (2012). The Art of the Chinese Dark Chess Program DIABLE. ICS 2012, Hualien, Taiwan, December 2012
• Jr-Chang Chen, Ting-Yu Lin, Shun-Chin Hsu, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2012). Design and Implementation of Computer Chinese Dark Chess Endgame Database, TCGA Workshop 2012
• Bo-Nian Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2013). Automatic Generation of Chinese Dark Chess Opening Books. CG 2013
• Shi-Jim Yen, Jr-Chang Chen, Bo-Nian Chen, Wen-Jie Tseng (2013). DARKNIGHT Wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3 » 17th Computer Olympiad
• Shi-Jim Yen, Cheng-Wei Chou, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, Kuo-Yuan Kao (2014). Design and Implementation of Chinese Dark Chess Programs. Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
• Nicolas Jouandeau, Tristan Cazenave (2014). Small and Large MCTS Playouts applied to Chinese Dark Chess Stochastic Game. ECAI CGW 2014

2015 ...

• Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, I-Chen Wu (2015). DARKKNIGHT wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4 » 18th Computer Olympiad
• Shi-Jim Yen, Cheng-Wei Chou, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, Kuo-Yuan Kao (2015). Design and Implementation of Chinese Dark Chess Programs. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 7, No. 1
• Jr-Chang Chen, Ting-Yu Lin, Bo-Nian Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2015). Equivalence Classes in Chinese Dark Chess Endgames. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 7, No. 2
• Wen-Jie Tseng, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu (2017). DarkKnight Wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2 » 19th Computer Olympiad 2016

External Links

• Banqi from Wikipedia
• Chinese Dark Chess from Wikipedia (Chinese)
• Links about Chinse Dark Chess
• Chinese Dark Chess (ICGA Tournaments)

References

1. ^ Photos 2013 Events: day 5, ICGA

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