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		The ICGA Journal, formerly, until 1999, the ICCA Journal is the quarterly published magazine, received by all ICGA members [1]. World-wide membership comprises individuals as well as niversity and industrial members.
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• I-Chen Wu
• Mark Winands
• Tristan Cazenave

Editorial Manager

• Ting-Han Wei

Honorary Editor

• Jaap van den Herik

Associate Editor

• Guy Haworth

Editor for ICGA Affairs

• Walter Kosters

Editorial Board

• Cameron Browne
• Aviezri Fraenkel
• Tsan-sheng Hsu
• Hiroyuki Iida
• Akihiro Kishimoto
• Jonathan Schaeffer
• Gerald Tesauro
• Jiao Wang
• Xinhe Xu

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Table of Contents, Abstracts and Selected Papers

by Ernst A. Heinz and Heiner Marxen the ICGA ^[3][4], further continued with selected contents by CPW editors.

Volume 1, 1978

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ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1

• Ben Mittman, First Issue Editorial.
• David Levy, ACM '78. » ACM 1978

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2

• David Levy, How I won.
• Don Beal, Handicapping Computer Chess Programs.
• Editor, Computer Chess goes to Israel. » Jerusalem CC Tournament 1978

Volume 2, 1979

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ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1

• Allan Gottlieb, Peter W. Frey, David Levy, Johann Joss, Letters on Handicapping Computer Chess Programs.
• David Cahlander, Strength of a Chess Playing Computer.
• David Levy, Letter concerning The Levy Bet.

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2

• Jacques Pitrat, A Program which Uses Plans for Finding Combinations in Chess.
• David Slate, Tenth Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. » ACM 1979
• Kathe Spracklen, Second Annual European Microcomputer Chess Championship - Results and Authors. » PCW-MCC 1979
• Jack Good, Rules for computer chess tournaments: an open letter to the tournament rules and organization committee of the International Computer Chess Association.

Volume 3, 1980

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ICCA Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 1

• Ben Mittman, $100,000 Prize Established. » Edward Fredkin Prize

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2

• Ben Mittman, 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 1980

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3

• David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn, 3rd World Computer Chess Championship]. » WCCC 1980
• Ben Mittman, The Eleventh ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship. » ACM 1980
• Editor, Microcomputer Chess Championship San Jose, California. » MCC 1980

Volume 4, 1981

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ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1

• Ben Mittman, Dr. Edward Lasker, 1885-1981.
• Tony Marsland, Monty Newborn, A brighter future for Soviet computer chess? pdf
• Sven-Gunnar Samuelsson, Summary of the Stockholm Micro 1980 Tournament. » Stockholm MCCT 1980

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2

• Ben Mittman, Ken Thompson, Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Travemünde and Hamburg, West Germany. » WMCCC 1981
• Ben Mittman, Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Travemünde and Hamburg, West Germany - Opening Address.

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 3

• Ben Mittman , Twelfth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. » ACM 1981
• Jaap van den Herik, Progress in Computer Chess. » Advances in Computer Chess 3

Volume 5, 1982

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ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1

• William Fink, An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure.
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Donnerwetter. ^[5]
• Editor, Stockholm Micro-81 Computer Chess Tournament - Stockholm, Sweden. » Stockholm MCCT 1981

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2

• Tony Marsland, Relative Performance of the Alpha-Beta Algorithm.
• László Lindner, How the Computer Helps the Composer.

Volume 6, 1983

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ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1

• Kathe Spracklen, Tutorial: Representation of an Opening Tree.
• Ben Mittman, ACM's Thirteenth North American Computer Chess Championship. » ACM 1982

ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 2

• Norman A. Macleod, Is the Computer Going to Take Over from the Composer?

ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3

• Jonathan Schaeffer, The History Heuristic.
• Mikhail Botvinnik, The Game of Chess: Its past, present and future.
• Helmut Horacek, Knowledge-Based Move Selection and Evaluation to Guide the Search in Chess Pawn Endings.
• László Lindner, Experience with the Second Human-Computer Problem Test.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4

• Alexander Reinefeld, An Improvement to the Scout Tree-Search Algorithm, pdf
• Jaap van den Herik, Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Computer Chess: Trick or Treat? Preliminary Thoughts on Threats and Rewards.
• Ken Thompson, 4th World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 1983
• Ben Mittman, László Lindner, Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1983

Volume 7, 1984

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1

• Robert Hyatt, Using Time Wisely.
• Don Beal, Mixing Heuristic and Perfect Evaluations: Nested Minimax.
• Jaap van den Herik, Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Computer Chess: Trick or Treat? Part II: Threats and Fears Investigated.
• Ben Mittman, László Lindner, Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship. (continued) » WMCCC 1983
• Frederic Friedel, The European Microcomputer-Chess Championship - 6th PCW. » EMCC 1983
• John Roycroft, The GBR code.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2

• Ivan Bratko, Peter Tancig, Simona Tancig, Detection of Positional Patterns in Chess.
• Jaap van den Herik, Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Computer Chess: Trick or Treat? Part III: Some Fears Revealed.
• Jaap van Oosterwijk Bruyn, The Fourth Conference on Advances in Computer Chess. Report
• Jaap van Oosterwijk Bruyn, International Computer-Chess Tournament in the Netherlands.
• David Levy, Chess Master versus Computer.
• Robert Hyatt, Cray Blitz versus David Levy.
• Jaap van den Herik, Korchnoi defeats Nuchess in Half a Jiffy. pdf

ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3

• Don Beal, Mating Sequences in the Quiescence Search.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, The Relative Importance of Knowledge.
• Stuart Cracraft, Bitmap move generation in Chess.
• Danny Kopec, The Canadian Computer Chess Invitational Championship (CCCIC) 1984.
• John Roycroft, A Proposed Revision of the ‘50-Move Rule’.
• Tom Fürstenberg, Micro Chess Computers.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4

• David Slate, Interior-node Score Bounds in a Brute-force Chess Program.
• Andrew N. Walker, Uniqueness in Game Trees.
• Tony Marsland, ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC). » ACM 1984
• Monroe Newborn, The Fourth World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1984
• Jaap van Oosterwijk Bruyn, Netherlands Computer-Chess Championship 1984. » DOCCC 1984
• Göran Grottling, The Truth about their Strength.
• Tim Breitkreutz, Jonathan Schaeffer, Computer vs Computer via Computer.

Volume 8, 1985

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1

• Harry Nelson, Hash Tables in Cray Blitz. » Cray Blitz
• Reiner Seidel, Chess, how to Understand the Exceptions!
• Peter W. Frey, An Empirical Technique for Developing Evaluation Functions.
• Tom Fürstenberg, Micro Chess Computers (Part 2).
• Göran Grottling, How to Bracket the Truth in Playing Strength.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2

• Robert Hyatt, Parallel Chess on the Cray X-MP/48.
• Tony Marsland, Evaluation-Function Factors.
• Burton Wendroff, Attack Detection and Move Generation on the X-MP/48.
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, The Construction of an Omniscient Endgame Data Base.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Calling All Mates.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Lionel Moser: An Experiment in Distributed Game Tree Searching. (Review) ^[6]
• John Roycroft, Chess-Endgame Data-Base`Oracles': Necessary and Desirable Features.
• Göran Grottling, Problem-Solving Ability Tested.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3

• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Elementary Theory Improved, a Conjecture Refuted.
• László Lindner, A Test to Compare Human and Computer Fairy-Chess Problem Solving.
• László Lindner, A Critique of Problem-Solving Ability.
• Paul Wiereyn, Problem-Solving Ability Tested II.
• Reiner Seidel, Grammatical Description of Chess Positions, Data-Base versus Human Knowledge.
• Tony Marsland, D.E. Welsh and B. Baczynskyj: Computer Chess II. (Review) » David E. Welsh, Boris Baczynskyj
• Editors, The US Open Computer-Chess Championship. » USOCCC 1985
• Sicco Kooi, Ard van Bergen, The 5th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1985
• Boris Baczynskyj, The 15th ACM NACCC Anatomized. » ACM 1984

ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4

• Monroe Newborn, A Hypothesis Concerning the Strength of Chess Programs.
• Ard van Bergen, An Ulti-Mate Look at the KPK Data Base.
• Harry Nefkens, Constructing Data Bases to Fit a Microcomputer.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, A Gauge of Endgames.
• Paul Wiereyn, Inventive Problem Solving.
• David E. Welsh, ACM's Sixteenth North American Computer Chess Championship. » ACM 1985
• Hans Berliner, HiTech wins North American Computer-Chess Championship. » HiTech
• Hans Berliner, The 1985 Fredkin Competition.
• Alexander Reinefeld, Kai von Luck: Aspekte wissensgestützter Planung. Bernd Owsnicki: Repräsentation von positionellem Schachwissen mit Techniken der künstlichen Intelligenz.
• Jaap van Oosterwijk Bruyn, The Dutch Computer-Chess Championship 1985 - Nona Prima Donna. » DOCCC 1985, Nona

Volume 9, 1986

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1

• Tony Marsland, A Review of Game-Tree Pruning. pdf
• Steven Skiena, An Overview of Machine Learning in Chess.
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, A Data Base on Data Bases.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Thompson's New Data-Base Results.
• Ard van Bergen, Theo van der Storm, The KPK Endgame: a Unit Correction.
• Reiner Seidel, What Constitutes Optimal Play?

ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2

• Adriaan de Groot, Intuition in Chess.
• Don Beal, Selective Search without Tears.
• David Levy, When will Brute Force Programs beat Kasparov?
• David Levy, ICCA'S Future.
• Helmut Horacek, The Fifth World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 1986
• Don Beal, Turbo GameWorks: Tools for Turbo Pascal. (Review) » Turbo Chess

ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3

• Ken Thompson, Retrograde Analysis of Certain Endgames.
• Hermann Kaindl, Helmut Horacek, Marcus Wagner, Selective Search versus Brute Force.
• Henri Bal, Robbert van Renesse, A Summary of Parallel Alpha-Beta Search Results. pp. 146-149
• Max Bramer, KPK Endgame Databases: a Response From the Source.
• Henk le Grand, The Impact of Computers on Chess-Problem composition.
• Jaap van den Herik, Roycroft's 5-Man Chess Endgame Series.
• Bob Herschberg, The 5th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Review on a booklet by C. Roos and T. Sibbing, Computer Chess Foundation Amsterdam » WMCCC 1985
• Jaap van Oosterwijk Bruyn, Nona retains her Title. » DOCCC 1986, Nona
• The Editor, The Second U.S. Open Computer-Chess Championship. » USOCCC 1986

ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4

• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, A Note on KBBK.
• Prakash Bettadapur, Influence of Ordering on Capture Search.
• Peter W. Frey, Fuzzy Production Rules in Chess.
• Edward Komissarchik, Aaron L. Futer, Computer Analysis of a Queen Endgame.
• Ken Thompson, An Example of QPvQ.
• Hans Zellner, Compressing Databases Down to Micro Size.
• Garth Courtois Jr., ACM's seventeenth North American Computer-Chess Championship. » ACM 1986
• Tony Marsland, The 6th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1986

Volume 10, 1987

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1

• Donald Michie, Ivan Bratko, Ideas on Knowledge Synthesis Stemming from the KBBKN Endgame.
• Dap Hartmann, How to Extract Relevant Knowledge from Grandmaster Games. Part 1: Grandmasters have Insights - the Problem is what to Incorporate into Practical Problems.
• Hans Zellner, KBBK Squeezed into a Micro
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, The KBBKN Statistics: New Data from Ken Thompson.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2

• Donald Michie, Ivan Bratko, Ideas on Knowledge Synthesis ..... a Correction.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, By Crawls and Creeps.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, More Truth on KBBK Database Results.
• John Roycroft, The Experimental Positions of Ideas in Knowledge Synthesis.
• Dap Hartmann, How to Extract Relevant Knowledge from Grandmaster Games. Part 2: the Notion of Mobility, and the Work of De Groot and Slater.
• David Slate, A Chess Program that uses its Transposition Table to Learn from Experience.
• Roger Hünen, A Uniform Way to Report Database Results.
• Peter Kouwenhoven, Advances in Computer Chess, The 5th Triennial Conference. (report)
• Dap Hartmann, R. Bartel, H.J. Kraas and G. Schrüfer: Das grosse Computerschach-Buch. (Review)

ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3

• Hans Berliner, Some Innovations Introduced by Hitech .
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Speculative Computing.
• Jan Eric Larsson, Challenging that Mobility is Fundamental.
• Hans Zellner, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Corrections and Substantiations to KBNK.
• Kaare Danielsen, The 7th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Rome, Italy, September 14-20, 1987. » WMCCC 1987
• Sito Dekker, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Complexity Starts at Five.
• Dap Hartmann, Peter van Diepen, Jaap van den Herik: Schaken voor Computers. (Review)

ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4

• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Najib Nakad, A Six-Men-Endgame Database: KRP(a2)KbBP(a3). pdf
• Denis Verhoef, Jacco H. Wesselius, Two-ply KRKN: Safely overtaking Quinlan.
• Lars Rasmussen, Correcting grandmasters' Analyses in Elementary Endgames.
• Dap Hartmann, Reiner Seidel: Grundlagen einer wissenschaftlichen Schachtheorie. (Review)
• Garth Courtois Jr., Ken Thompson, ACM's 18th North American Computer-Chess Championship (NACCC). Dallas, Texas, October 25-27, 1987. » ACM 1987
• Tony Marsland, Workshop Report: Theory and Practice in Computer Chess. » ACM 1987
• Peter Kouwenhoven, The 7th Dutch National Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1987

Volume 11, 1988

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1

• Harry Nelson, Robert Hyatt, The Draw Heuristic of Cray Blitz.
• Tony Warnock, Burton Wendroff, Search Tables in Computer Chess.
• Alexander Szabo, Barbara Szabo, The Technology Curve Revisited.
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame.
• Lars Rasmussen, Ultimates in KQKR and KRKN.
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Najib Nakad, Karpov Amends Timman's Analysis. pdf
• Dap Hartmann, Christian Posthoff and Günter Reinemann: Computerschach - Schachcomputer. (Review)
• Reiner Seidel, Reply to D. Hartmann's Review of "Grundlagen einer wissenschaftlichen Schachtheorie".
• Dap Hartmann, Rejoinder to Seidel's Reply.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3

• Jack Good, Some Comments Concerning an Article by De Groot.
• Adriaan de Groot, A Rejoinder to I.J. Good's Comments.
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Najib Nakad, A Reply to R. Sattler's Remarks on the KRP(a2)KbBP(a3) Database. pdf
• Ingo Althöfer, Root Evaluation Errors: How they Arise and Propagate.
• Dap Hartmann, Butterfly Boards.
• John F. White, Querg Chess.
• John Nunn, Life with ChessBase.
• Mikhail Donskoy, Jonathan Schaeffer, Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant. » First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988
• Roy Keeley, The 4th Annual U.S. Open Computer Chess Championship. » USOCCC 1988

ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4

• Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Singular extensions: Adding Selectivity to Brute-Force Searching. » Singular Extensions
• Michael Schlosser, Computers and Chess-Problem Composition.
• Hermann Kaindl, Useful Statistics from Tournament Programs.
• Lars Rasmussen, A Database for KRKP.
• Dap Hartmann, Alen D. Shapiro: Structured Induction in Expert Systems. (Review)
• David Levy, 8th World Microcomputer Chess Championship.
• Danny Kopec, Mike Valvo, Report on The ACM 19th North American Computer-Chess Championship. » ACM 1988
• Dap Hartmann, Report on the 8th Dutch National Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1988

Volume 12, 1989

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1

• Günther Schrüfer, A Strategic Quiescence Search.
• David Levy, David Broughton, Mark Taylor, The SEX Algorithm in Computer Chess. » SEX Algorithm
• Christopher A. Marris, Compressing a Chess-Endgame Database.
• David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker, A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results.
• Edmar Mednis, Rook and Bishop versus Rook: The Controversial Endgame.
• Tony Marsland, Workshop Report on New Technologies for Chess. pdf » ACM 1988

ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2

• Rainer Feldmann, Burkhard Monien, Peter Mysliwietz, Oliver Vornberger, Distributed Game-Tree Search.
• Lewis Stiller, Parallel Analysis of Certain Endgames.
• Ingo Althöfer, Retrograde Analysis and two Computerizable Definitions of the Quality of Chess Games.
• Hans Zellner, The KPK Database Revisited.
• Tony Marsland, New Directions in Game-Tree Search. » WCCC 1989 Workshop New Directions in Game-Tree Search
• Garth Courtois Jr., The Sixth World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 1989
• Ray Keene, Deep Thoughts from Edmonton.
• James Gillogly, New Directions in Game-Tree Search - First Workshop Session.
• Murray Campbell, New Directions in Game-Tree Search - Second Workshop Session.
• David Slate, Invited Speakers: Donald Michie and John McCarthy.
• David Levy, The Netherlands versus the Computer World. » Netherlands-vs-Computers-1989
• Alexander Timofeev, Report on the 1st International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR. » First International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR 1989

ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3

• Donald Michie, Brute Force in Chess and Science.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Patrick Schoo, Verifying and Codifying Strategies in the KNNKP(h) Endgame. pdf
• Hans Zellner, KBBKN on a Micro.
• Ard van Bergen, The 1st Computer Olympiad, August 9-15, 1989. » 1st Computer Olympiad
• The Editorial Board, Twelve Chessters against twelve Dutchies. » Netherlands-vs-Computers-1989
• Dap Hartmann, The 1989 CSVN-AEGON Tournament. » Aegon 1989
• Hans Berliner, The Human versus Computer Match 1989. » Aegon 1989

ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4

• Robert Levinson, A Self-Learning, Pattern-Oriented Chess Program.
• John McCarthy, The Fruitfly on the Fly.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Comment on 'Distributed Game-Tree Search'.
• Jaap van den Herik, An Interview with Claude Shannon, September 25, 1980 in Linz, Austria.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Thank You, Dr. Shannon. » Claude Shannon, WCCC 1989
• Richard Lang, The Ninth World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1989
  Jaap van den Herik, David Levy, Disqualification at Portorož.
• David Levy, The 20th North American Computer-Chess Championship. » ACM 1989
  Ken Thompson, Results and Games.
  Larry Evans, The Key Game.
  Ben Mittman, Deep Preparation.
• Dap Hartmann, Peter Kouwenhoven, The 9th Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1989
• The Editors, Champ meets Champ. » Kasparov versus Deep Thought 1989

Volume 13, 1990

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1

• Tony Marsland, The Bratko-Kopec Test Revisited. » Bratko-Kopec Test
• Maarten van der Meulen, Conspiracy-Number Search.
• Rainer Feldmann, Burkhard Monien, Peter Mysliwietz, Oliver Vornberger, Response to a Comment on 'Distributed Game-Tree Search'.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, A Rejoinder to the Response to a Comment on 'Distributed Game-Tree Search'.
• John F. White, The Amateur's Book-Opening Routine.
• Peter Jansen, Jonathan Schaeffer, Seconding a Grandmaster.
• David Levy, The End of an Era. » Levy versus Deep Thought 1989
• Michael Valvo, Moral Victory: Karpov versus Deep Thought at Harvard.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2

• Albert Zobrist, A New Hashing Method with Applications for Game Playing. as pdf ^[7]
• Maarten van der Meulen, Victor Allis, Jaap van den Herik, A Comment on `Conspiracy-Number Search'.
• Konrad Zuse, The Way from the Computers Z1, Z3 and Z4 to Plankalkül.
• Jaap van den Herik, An Interview with Konrad Zuse.
• John Roycroft, How to Treat Endgame Databases.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3

• Mikhail Donskoy, Fundamental Concepts in Search.
• Michael George, Jonathan Schaeffer, Chunking for Experience.
• Ron Kalnim, A Positional Assembly Model.
• Zsuzsa Horváth, Report on the 2nd Computer Olympiad. » 2nd Computer Olympiad
• Paul Lu, Report on the Advances in Computer Chess 6 Conference. » Advances in Computer Chess 6
• Frederic Friedel, Chessbase.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4

• Alexander Reznitskiy, Mikhail Chudakov, Pioneer: a Chess Program Modelling a Chess Master's Mind.
• Mikhail Donskoy, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Finessing in Games.
• Ken Thompson, KQPKQ and KRPKR Endings.
• John Roycroft, Identifying Three Types of Zugzwang.
• Ingo Althöfer, Compressing Chess Games with the Help of a fast Deterministic Chess Program.
• Robert Levinson, The ACM 21st North American Computer-Chess Championship. » ACM 1990
  Ken Thompson, Results and Games - The ACM 21st North American Computer-Chess Championship. » ACM 1990
• John Stanback, Supercomputing '90: Computer-Chess Testing and Programming Session. » ACM 1990
• Thomas Mally, The 10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1990
• Dap Hartmann, A Decennium of Computer Chess in The Netherlands. » DOCCC 1990
• Harm Geert Muller, A Matchbox Chess Computer. » Usurpator - Matchbox

Volume 14, 1991

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1

• Thomas Anantharaman, Confidently Selecting a Search Heuristic.
• Ken Thompson, Chess Endgames Vol. 1.
• Ken Thompson, New Results for KNPKB and KNPKN Endgames.
• Donald Michie, Ivan Bratko, Comments to `Chunking for Experience.
• John McCarthy, Edward Feigenbaum, In Memoriam. Arthur L. Samuel: Pioneer in Machine Learning. » Arthur Samuel

ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2

• Thomas Anantharaman, Extension Heuristics.
• Edmar Mednis, Database Results for KQKRN and KQKRB annotated.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Checkers: A Preview of what will happen in Chess? » Checkers
• Don Beal, Report on the 11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1991
• Cock de Gorter, The 1991 Aegon Man-Computer Tournament. » Aegon 1991
• Frederic Friedel, Not the Mother of all Chess Machines. » Deep Thought

ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3

• Alex van Tiggelen, Neural Networks as a Guide to Optimization - The Chess Middle Game Explored.
• William Tunstall-Pedoe, Genetic Algorithms Optimizing Evaluation Functions.
• Lewis Stiller, Some Results from a Massively Parallel Retrograde Analysis.
• David Levy, First Among Equals.
• John Roycroft, A Side-Effect of new Database Knowledge.
• Robert Levinson, Man and machine, theory and practice square off in Sydney. » 12. IJCAI 1991, Deep Thought
• Robert Levinson, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Tony Marsland, Jonathan Schaeffer, David Wilkins, The Role of Chess in Artificial Intelligence Research. pdf, also in IJCAI 1991,pdf
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Doubting Castle.
• Ingo Althöfer, An Additive Evaluation Function in Chess.
• Jos Uiterwijk, David Levy and Don Beal (eds.): Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence 2. (Review)
• Tom Draisma, Report on the Third International Computer Olympiad, Maastricht, August 1991. » 3rd Computer Olympiad
• Jos Uiterwijk, Chess Results and Games of the 3rd Computer Olympiad. » 3rd Computer Olympiad

ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4

• Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer, Dean Tjaden, Learning in Bebe. » Bebe
• Peter W. Frey, Memory-Based Expertise: Computer Chess vs. AI.
• Harry Nefkens, How to Win with a Knight Ahead
• John Roycroft, A Use for Endgame Databases?
• Lewis Stiller, Karpov and Kasparov: the End is Perfection.
• Don Beal, Report on the 22nd ACM International Computer Chess Championship. » ACM 1991
• Garth Courtois Jr., Where is Computer Chess Going?
• Anne Marie Burton, Peter Mysliwietz, Rainer Feldmann, Report on the 1st International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship. » IPCCC 1991
• Peter van Diepen, Report on the CSVN 11th Dutch Computer Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1991
• Dap Hartmann, Twenty-Twenty Tournament Visions: Aegon 1991. » Aegon 1991

Volume 15, 1992

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1

• Jos Uiterwijk, The Countermove Heuristic.
• Jean-Christophe Weill, The NegaC* Search.
• David Levy, Harry Nefkens, Before Databases.
• Dennis Breuker, Victor Allis, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, A Database as a Second.
• Ingo Althöfer, On Asymmetries in Chess Programs.
• Lewis Stiller, KQNKRR.
• Brian Gosling, Chess computers and endgame studies.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2

• Chun Ye, Tony Marsland, Experiments in Forward Pruning with Limited Extensions.
• Jos Uiterwijk, Memory Efficiency in some Heuristics.
• Victor Allis, Ingo Althöfer: On Pathology in Game Tree and Other Recursion Tree Models.
• John Nunn, Perfect Prose.
• Lars Rasmussen, Queen versus Rook and Pawn.
• Dap Hartmann, Superb Bronstein eats Computers for Breakfast. » Aegon 1992, David Bronstein
• Cock de Gorter, The AEGON Tournament: Results and Games. » Aegon 1992
• Ingo Althöfer, Move Ordering by Time Ordering. » Move Ordering

ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3

• Peter Jansen, KQKR: Awareness of a Fallible Opponent.
• Wilhelm Barth, Stephan Barth, Validating a Range of Endgame Programs.
• Hans Berliner, Allen Newell 1927-1992, In Memoriam.
• Adriaan de Groot, Allen Newell: An Adieu.
• Dennis Breuker, Jacco Gnodde, The AST 4th Computer Olympiad. » 4th Computer Olympiad
• Mark Uniacke, The Chess Tournament of the AST 4th Computer Olympiad.» 4th Computer Olympiad
• Jos Uiterwijk, The AST 4th Conference on Computer Games.
• Don Beal, The 1992 QMW Uniform-Platform Autoplay Computer-Chess Tournament.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4

• Tony Marsland, Chess and AI: Workshop Report.
• Peter Jansen, KQKR: Assessing the Utility of Heuristics.
• Richard Greenblatt, Wedgitude.
• Jaap van den Herik, An Interview with Richard D. Greenblatt.
• Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, The 7th World Computer-Chess Championship. Report on the Tournament. » WCCC 1992
• Frederic Friedel, Michael Valvo, The 7th World Computer-Chess Championship. Results and Games. » WCCC 1992
• The Board of the ICCA, The Mephisto Best-Publication Award.
• Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann , The 2nd International Paderborn Computer-Chess Championship. » IPCCC 1992
• Dennis Breuker, Jos Uiterwijk, The 12th Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1992

Volume 16, 1993

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1

• Robert Levinson, John Amenta, MORPH, An Experience-Based Adaptive Chess System.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Back to fifty.
• Peter Jansen, KQKR: Speculatively Thwarting a Human Opponent.
• Wim Pijls, Arie de Bruin, SSS*-like Algorithms in Constrained Memory.
• Danny Kopec, Michael Valvo, The 23rd ACM International Computer-Chess Championship. » ACM 1993
• Helmut Horacek, Computer Chess, its Impact on Artificial Intelligence.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2

• Yi-Fan Ke, Tai-Ming Parng, The Guard Heuristic: Legal Move Ordering with Forward Game-Tree Pruning.
• Ingo Althöfer, On Telescoping Linear Evaluation Functions.
• Mikhail Botvinnik, Three Positions. » CC Sapiens
• Bart Verbaan, Cock de Gorter, The 8th AEGON Man-Machine Tournament. » Aegon 1993
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Norman Treloar, Paul Lu, Rob Lake, Man Versus Machine for the World Checkers Championship. » Checkers

ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3

• Chrilly Donninger. Null Move and Deep Search » Null Move Pruning
• Robert Levinson, Richard Snyder, Distance: Toward the Unification of Chess Knowledge. » Distance
• Shawn Benn, Danny Kopec, The Bratko-Kopec Test Recalibrated. pdf
• Christian Posthoff, Michael Schlosser, Advances in Computer Chess Conference 7.
• Don Beal, Report on the QMW 1993 Uniform-Platform Computer-Chess Championship. » UPCCC 1993
• Hans Berliner, Playing Computer Chess in the Human Style. » CC Sapiens
• David Bronstein, Mimicking Human Oversight. » CC Sapiens

ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4

• Hiroyuki Iida, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Potential Applications of Opponent-Model Search. Part 1: The Domain of Applicability.
• John Nunn, Extracting Information from Endgame Databases.
• Gennady Timoshchenko, Bishop or Knight?
• Christopher Chabris, Danny Kopec, The 4th Harvard Cup Human versus Computer Chess Challange. » Harvard Cup 1993
• Jan Louwman, The 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1993
• Frederic Friedel, Dieter Steinwender, Results and Selected Games of the 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship.
• Peter van Diepen, Report on the 13th Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1993
• Josep Parés, Teresa Canela, Report on the 1st Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. » SCCC 1993

Volume 17, 1994

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1

• Don Beal, Martin C. Smith, Random Evaluations in Chess.
• Hiroyuki Iida, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Potential Applications of Opponent-Model Search. Part 2. Risks and strategies.
• Chrilly Donninger, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu: `That was easy'.
• Eduardo F. Morales, Learning Patterns for Playing Strategies. CiteSeerX
• Javier Ros Padilla, Estimating Asymmetry and Selectivity in Chess Programs.
• Don Beal, The QMW's Uniform-Platform Computer-Chess Tournament. » UPCCC 1994

ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2

• Martin Schijf, Victor Allis, Jos Uiterwijk, Proof-Number Search and Transpositions.
• David Levy, Straight on to Kasparov.
• John Nunn, More, and More Perfect Prose.
• Ingo Althöfer, Bernhard Walter, Weak Zugzwang: Statistics on some Chess Endgames.
• Frederic Friedel, Frans Morsch, The Intel World Chess Express Challenge.
• Reiner Seidel, Self-Annotating Elementary Endgames.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3

• Paolo Ciancarini, Experiments in Distributing and Co-ordinating Knowledge (zipped ps)
• Bernhard Balkenhol, Data Compression in Encoding Chess Positions (ps)
• Andreas Junghanns, Fuzzy Numbers as a Tool in Chess Programs.
• Monroe Newborn, The 24th ACM International Computer-Chess Championship. » ACM 1994
• Frederic Friedel, Pentium Genius Beats Kasparov: A Report on the Intel Speed Chess Grand Prix in London.
• Don Beal, Report on the QMW Uniform-Platform World Championship 1994. » UPCCC 1994

ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4

• Paolo Ciancarini, Distributed Searches: a Basis for Comparison (zipped ps)
• Dennis Breuker, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Replacement Schemes for Transposition Tables.
• Arie de Bruin, Wim Pijls, Aske Plaat, Solution Trees as a Basis for Game-Tree Search.
• Christopher Chabris, Danny Kopec, Report on the Fifth Harvard Cup Human versus Computer Intel Chess Challenge. » Harvard Cup 1994
• Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann, The 4th International Paderborn Computer-Chess Championship. » IPCCC 1994
• Peter Kouwenhoven, The 14th Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1994

Volume 18, 1995

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1

• Bradley Kuszmaul, The StarTech Massively Parallel Chess Program (pdf)
• Mark Levene, Trevor Fenner, A Partial Analysis of Minimaxing Game Trees with Random Leaf Values.
• Ken Thompson, Jonathan Schaeffer, Tributes to Tony Scherzer.
• Cock de Gorter, The 10th AEGON Computer-Chess Tournament. » Aegon 1995
• Teresa Canela, Josep Parés, The 2nd Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. » SCCC 1994

ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2

• Michael Buro, ProbCut: An Effective Selective Extension of the Alpha-Beta Algorithm. (pdf) pp. 71-76
• Don Beal, An Integrated-Bounds-and-Values (IBV) Numeric Scale for Minimax Searches.
• Stefan Plenkner, A Null-Move Technique Impervious to Zugzwang.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Mikhail Moiseivich Botvinnik: An Obituary. » Mikhail Botvinnik
• Monroe Newborn, A Eulogy for Mikhail Moiseivich Botvinnik.
• Hin-Kwok Tsang, Don Beal, The 8th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 1995
• Bart Verbaan, The 10th AEGON Man-Machine Tournament. » Aegon 1995

ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3

• David Levy, Extrapolation and Speculation.
• Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann, Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Controlled Conspiracy-Number Search.
• Steven Edwards and the Editorial Board, An Examination of the Endgame KBNKN.
• Wilhelm Barth, Combining Knowledge and Search to Yield Infallible Endgame Programs A study of passed Pawns in the KPKP endgame.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Aegonics. pdf

ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4

• Don Beal, Martin C. Smith, Quantification of Search-Extension Benefits.
• Hiroyuki Iida, Yoshiyuki Kotani, Jos Uiterwijk, Tutoring Strategies in Game-Tree Search. extended abstract as pdf
• Wilhelm Barth, The KPKP Endgame: An Amplification.
• Steven Edwards, Comments on Barth’s Article “Combining Knowledge and Search to Yield Infallible Endgame Programs.”
• Ulf Lorenz, Report on the 13th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship.
• Rainer Feldmann, The 13th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. Results and Selected Games.

Volume 19, 1996

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1

• Jean-Christophe Weill, The ABDADA Distributed Minimax Search Algorithm, zipped postscript » ABDADA
• Steven Edwards, An Examination of the Endgame KBBKN.
• Tony Marsland, The Future of Computer Chess.
• Andrew N. Walker, Hybrid Heuristic Search.
• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Konrad Zuse: An Obituary. » Konrad Zuse
• Jos Uiterwijk, The Kasparov - Deep Blue Match. » Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1996
• Yasser Seirawan, The Kasparov - Deep Blue Games.
• Cock de Gorter, The 11th AEGON Computer-Chess Tournament. » Aegon 1996

ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2

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• Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Chess or Beyond?
• Heinz Herbeck, Wilhelm Barth, An Explanation Tool for Chess Endgames Based on the Rule Method.
• Mark Sturman, Beware the Bishop Pair.
• Yasuichi Nakayama, Tadafumi Akazawa, Kohei Noshita, A Parallel Algorithm for Solving Hard Tsume-Shogi Problems.
• Hans Berliner, Why did Kasparov Blink?
• Victor Vikhrev, The Choice of a Research Direction.
• Christopher Lutz, Report on the Match 3-Hirn vs. Christopher Lutz.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3

• Johannes Fürnkranz, Machine Learning in Computer Chess: The Next Generation, zipped postscript
• Shirish Chinchalkar, An Upper Bound for the Number of Reachable Positions.
• Dennis Breuker, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Replacement Schemes and Two-Level Tables.
• Mark Brockington, A Taxonomy of Parallel Game-Tree Search Algorithms.
• Yngvi Björnsson, Mark Brockington, Andreas Junghanns, Aske Plaat, Report on the Advances in Computer Chess 8 Conference. » Advances in Computer Chess 8
  Dennis Breuker, Jaap van den Herik, The Exhibition Games.
  Jaap van den Herik, Two Interviews with Ken Thompson. » Ken Thompson

ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4

• Don Beal, Martin C. Smith, Multiple Probes of Transposition Tables.
• Chrilly Donninger, CHE: A Graphical Language for Expressing Chess Knowledge
• Ken Thompson, 6-Piece Endgames.
• Ratih Dewanti, Report on the 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1996
• Tony Marsland, Experience is a Hard Teacher.
• The Board of the ICCA, The Junior Chess Program and the 1996 World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Jakarta
• Tony Marsland, Recognition of Local Participation..
• Amir Ban, Junior among the Grandmasters.
• Theo van der Storm, Report on the 16th Dutch Open Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1996

Volume 20, 1997

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1

• Robert Hyatt, The DTS high-performance parallel tree search algorithm. » Dynamic Tree Splitting
• Dietmar Lippold, The Legitimacy of Positions in Endgame Databases.
• Yngvi Björnsson, Tony Marsland, Jonathan Schaeffer, Andreas Junghanns, Searching with Uncertainty Cut-offs. pdf » Uncertainty Cut-Offs
• Ingo Althöfer, A Symbiosis of Man and Machine Beats Grandmaster Timoshchenko.
• Ulf Lorenz, The 6th International Paderborn Computer-Chess Championship. » IPCCC 1997
• Eugenio Castillo Jiménez, The Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. » SCCC 1996
• Cock de Gorter, The 12th AEGON Man-Machine Tournament. » Aegon 1997

ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2

• David Levy, Crystal Balls: The Meta-Science of Prediction in Computer Chess.
• Bob Herschberg, A Brief History of the Future ICCA.
• Robert Hyatt, Monroe Newborn, CRAFTY Goes Deep. » Crafty, Diminishing Returns
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Aske Plaat, Kasparov versus Deep Blue: The Rematch. » Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997
• Valavan Manohararajah, Rajah: The Design of a Chess Program. ^[9] » Rajah

ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3

• Ernst A. Heinz, How DarkThought plays chess
• Ingo Althöfer, On the k-best Mode in Computer Chess: Measuring the Similarity of Move Proposals.
• Don Beal, Martin C. Smith, Learning Piece Values Using Temporal Differences.
• Peter Kouwenhoven, DIEP, Deep Trouble. » Diep
• Paul Wiereyn, Genius-3 Cooked Endgame Studies. » Chess Genius
• Tony Marsland, A Report on the Fredkin Prize for Computer Chess.
• Michael Buro, The Othello match of the year: Takeshi Murakami vs Logistello. zipped ps » Othello

ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4

• Daniel C. Dennet, Can Machines Think? Deep Blue and Beyond.
• Thomas Anantharaman, Evaluation Tuning for Computer Chess: Linear Discriminant Methods.
• Richard Korf, Does DEEP BLUE use Artificial Intelligence? ^[10]
• John Hamlen, Mathias Feist, Report on the 15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 1997
• Theo van der Storm, Report on the 17th Dutch Open Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1997
• Roberto Cifuentes, Maarten De Zeeuw, Jan van Reek, Secrets of Chess Endings.

Volume 21, 1998

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1

• Andreas Junghanns, Are there Practical Alternatives to Alpha-Beta?
• Franz-Günter Winkler, Johannes Fürnkranz, A Hypothesis on the Divergence of AI Research, pdf
• Ingo Althöfer, LIST-3-HIRN vs. Grandmaster Yusupov. - A Report on a Very Experimental Match, Part I: The Games.
• Ulf Lorenz, Heiner Matthias, The 7th International Paderborn Computer-Chess Championship. » IPCCC 1998

ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2

• Ernst A. Heinz, Extended Futility Pruning
• Jonathan Baxter, Andrew Tridgell, Lex Weaver, Experiments in Parameter Learning Using Temporal Differences (pdf)
• Lev Finkelstein, Shaul Markovitch, Learning to Play Chess Selectively by Acquiring Move Patterns. pdf
• Jaap van den Herik, Israel Samuel Herschberg: An Obituary.
• Jaap van den Herik, A Eulogy for Bob Herschberg.
• Frederic Friedel, Advanced Chess by Kasparov and Topalov.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3

• Ernst A. Heinz, Efficient Interior-Node Recognition
• Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Planning a Strategy in Chess. pdf
• Kevin Coplan, Synthesis of Chess and Chess-like Endgames by Recursive Optimisation.
• Jacques Pitrat, Games: The Next Challenge.
• Jeroen Noomen, Ed Schröder, Anand versus Rebel 10 exp. » Rebel

ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4

• Guy Haworth, Meel Velliste, Chess Endgames and Neural Networks.
• Ernst A. Heinz, DarkThought Goes Deep.
• Eugenio Castillo Jiménez, Report on the 5th Open Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. » SCCC 1998
• Theo van der Storm, Report on the 18th Dutch Open Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 1998
• Ian Frank, Reijer Grimbergen, Report on the First International Conference on Computers and Games. » CG 1998

Volume 22, 1999

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ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1

• Robert Hyatt, Book Learning - a Methodology to Tune an Opening Book Automatically
• Kieran Greer, Piyush Ojha, David A. Bell, A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Move Ordering: the Chessmaps Heuristic.
• Ernst A. Heinz, Endgame Databases and Efficient Index Schemes for Chess, postscipt preprint
• Burkhard Monien, Rainer Feldmann, Jaap van den Herik, More Information on the 9th World Computer-Chess Championship. pdf » WCCC 1999
• Nobusuke Sasaki, Hiroyuki Iida, Report on the First Open Computer-Amazons Championship.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2

• Ernst A. Heinz, Knowledgeable Encoding and Querying of Endgame Databases, postscipt
• Michael Buro, Toward Opening Book Learning (pdf)
• Christoph Wirth, Jürg Nievergelt, Exhaustive and Heuristic Retrograde Analysis of the KPPKP Endgame.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3

• Ernst A. Heinz, Adaptive Null-Move Pruning, postscipt
• Michael Buro, Efficient Approximation of Backgammon Race Equities. pdf
• Mathias Feist, The 9th Wold Computer-Chess Championship: Report on the tournament. » WCCC 1999
  Don Beal, The 9th World Computer-Chess Championship: the Search-Engine Features of the Programs.
• Frederic Friedel, The Advanced Chess Match between Anand and Karpov.
• Dap Hartmann, A Transference of Bones.

ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4

• Robert Hyatt, Rotated Bitmaps, a new Twist on an old Idea
• Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Two Strategic Shortcomings in Chess Programs. pdf
• Ingo Althöfer, Advanced Shuffle Chess with Technical Improvements.
• Don Beal, Martin C. Smith, Learning Piece-Square Values using Temporal Differences.
• Dap Hartmann, Hands Off Hans!
• P. Marko, Guy Haworth, The Kasparov-World Match.
• Eugene Nalimov, Christoph Wirth, Guy Haworth, KQQKQQ and the Kasparov-World Game.

Volume 23, 2000

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1

• Ken Thompson, The Longest: KRNKNN in 262.
• Ernst A. Heinz, AEL-Pruning. pdf
• Guy Haworth, Strategies for Constrained Optimisation.
• Darse Billings, Thoughts on RoShamBo.
• Dap Hartmann, The Importance of being Scalable. Review on Ernst A. Heinz, Scalable Search in Computer Chess ^[11]
• Ingo Althöfer, A One-Sided Advanced Chess Match. Part 1: The Games.
• Eugenio Castillo Jiménez, Report on the 6th Open Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. SCCC 1999
• Hiroyuki Iida, Martin Müller, Report on the Second Open Computer-Amazons Championship.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2

• Ken Chen, Some Practical Techniques for Global Search in Go.
• Dap Hartmann, Championship on the FRITZ.
• Mark Brockington, Computer Chess Meets Planning.
• Guy Haworth, Deepest Chess Win Revisited.
• Peter Karrer, KQQKQP and KQPKQP≈. ^[12]

ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3

• Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz, Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables, ps
• Thomas Lincke, Ambros Marzetta, Large Endgame Databases with Limited Memory Space.
• Geoffrey Irving, Jeroen Donkers, Jos Uiterwijk, Solving Kalah. pdf » Kalah
• Tom King, Shredder wins the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 2000
• Jaap van den Herik, The Fifth Computer Olympiad. » 5th Computer Olympiad
• Thomas Lincke, Roel van der Goot, Marvin wins Awari Tournament.
• Nick Wedd, Goemate wins Go Tournament.
• Yngvi Björnsson, YL wins Lines of Action Tournament.
• Patrick Hensgens, Jos Uiterwijk, 8QP wins Amazons Tournament.
• Vadim Anshelevich, Hexy wins Hex Tournament. pdf
• Hiroyuki Iidam YSS wins Shogi Tournament.
• Jos Uiterwijk, Report on The Computer-Games Workshop. » 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
• Ulf Lorenz, P.ConNerS wins the 10th Grandmaster Tournament in Lippstadt (Germany). » P.ConNerS

ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4

• Thomas Thomsen, Lambda-Search in Game Trees with Application to Go.
• Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida, Solving Kriegspiel-like Problems: Exploiting a Transposition Table, pdf
• Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, The Innovated Art of Chess Analysis.
• Ingo Althöfer, Grandmaster Chess with one-sided Computer Help.
• Alvin Levy, Report on the 4th ACBL World Computer-Bridge Championship.

Volume 24, 2001

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1

• Mark Winands, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, The Quad heuristic in Lines of Action, pdf
• Kevin Coplan, Synthesis of Chess and Chess-like Endgames: A Proof of Correctness.
• János Wágner, István Virág, Solving Renju. ^[13]
• Dap Hartmann, Multigame - an Environment for Distributed Game Tree Research. (Review) ^[14]
• Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, The Match Van der Wiel vs. REBEL CENTURY 3.0. » Van der Wiel, Rebel
• Ulf Lorenz, The 10th International Paderborn Computer-Chess Championship. » IPCCC 2001
• Jack van Rijswijck, Martin Müller, The Second International Conference on Computers and Games. » CG 2000
• Ken Thompson, CLAUDE SHANNON (1916-2001): FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
• Jaap van den Herik, CLAUDE SHANNON (1916-2001): THANK YOU.
• Hans Berliner, HERBERT A. SIMON (1916-2001): A LIFE'S APPRAISAL
• Fernand Gobet, HERBERT A. SIMON (1916 - 2001): THE SCIENTIST OF THE ARTIFICIAL.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2

• Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz, Ken.
• Dennis Ritchie, Ken, Unix, and Games.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, Ken Thompson's Influence on Computer Games Research.
• Jaap van den Herik, The Bell Captain.
• Ernst A. Heinz, Self-Play, Deep Search and Diminishing Returns.
• Feng-hsiung Hsu, Ken Thompson and DEEP BLUE.
• John Tamplin, Guy Haworth, Ken Thompson's 6-man Tables.
• Harold van der Heijden, Endgame Tables and Endgame Study Composition.
• Noam Elkies, Endgame Tables and Chess Composition.
• John Beasley, Computer Discoveries in Losing Chess.
• Václav Kotěšovec, King and Two Generalised Knights against King.
• Ben Mittman, OBITUARY CLAUDE SHANNON (1916 – 2001): PERSONAL MEMORIES. ^[15]

ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3

• Jonathan Schaeffer, Technology Transfer from One High-Performance Search Engine to Another. » Checkers
• Ren Wu, Don Beal, Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms.
• Guy Haworth, Discarding Like Pieces.
• Guy Haworth, Depth by The Rule.
• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The CMG 6th Computer Olympiad. » 6th Computer Olympiad
  Frank Schneider Deep Junior wins the 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. » WMCCC 2001, Deep Junior
  Yngvi Björnsson, Mark Winands, YL wins Lines of Action tournament. » 6th Computer Olympiad
  Jr-Chang Chen, Shun-Chin Hsu, ELP wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 6th Computer Olympiad
  Hiroyuki Iida, 8QP wins Amazons tournament. » 6th Computer Olympiad
  Diederik Wentink, Jos Uiterwijk, GF1 wins Gipf tournament. » 6th Computer Olympiad
  Jeff Rollason, Shotest wins Shogi tournament. » 6th Computer Olympiad

ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4

• Jaap van den Herik, Science, Competition and Business, pdf
• Ken Chen, Computer Go: Knowledge, Search, and Move Decision, pdf
• Guy Haworth, Peter Karrer, John Tamplin, Christoph Wirth, 3-5-man chess: Maximals and mzugs.
• Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida, AND/OR-tree Search Algorithms in Shogi Mating Search.
• Dap Hartmann, Advances in Computer Games 9. (Review) » Advances in Computer Games 9
• Alvin Levy, Report on the 5th ACBL World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• Ingo Althöfer, Grandmaster Chess with One-Sided Computer Help.
• Theo van der Storm, Report on the 21st Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 2001

Volume 25, 2002

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1

• Robert Hyatt, Tim Mann, A lock-less transposition table implementation for parallel search chess engines.
• David McAllester, Deniz Yuret, Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search, ps (draft from 1993)
• Tristan Cazenave, Gradual Abstract Proof Search, pdf

ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2

• Nathan Bullock, Domineering: Solving Large Combinatorial Search Spaces.
• Marc Boulé, Zeljko Zilic, An FPGA Move Generator for the Game of Chess. pdf
• Guy Haworth, Secrets of Pawnless Endings.
• Dap Hartmann, Computers and Games. (Review) » CG 2000
• Michael Buro, Report on the IWEC-2002 Man-Machine Othello Match. pdf
• Reijer Grimbergen, Report on the 12th CSA World Computer-Shogi Championship.
• Ingo Althöfer, Clobber – A New Game with Very Simple Rules.
• Theo van der Storm, Results of the 2nd International CSVN Tournament. » ICT 2002
• Editor The Massy 2002 Chess Programs Tournament. » Massy 2002

ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3

• Omid David, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Verified Null-Move Pruning.
• David Levy, ICCA BECOMES ICGA.
• Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Daisaku Yokoyama, Takashi Chikayama, Game-Tree Search Algorithm based on Realization Probability, pdf, pdf
• David Levy, SOME COMMENTS ON REALIZATION PROBABILITIES AND THE SEX ALGORITHM.
• John Romein, Henri Bal, Awari is Solved.
• Jeroen Donkers, Comments on the Awari Solution.
• Tsan-sheng Hsu, Ping-yi Liu, Verification of Endgame Databases.
• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The Seventh Computer Olympiad. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  James Robertson, The 10th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2002
  Hans Kuijf, Bridge at the 7th Computer Olympiad. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Ken Chen, GO4++ wins 19x19 Go tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Erik van der Werf, GO4++ wins 9x9 Go tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Richard J. Lorentz, First-time entry Amazong wins Amazons tournament.» 7th Computer Olympiad
  Yngvi Björnsson, Mark Winands, YL wins Lines of Action tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Jr-Chang Chen, Shi-Jim Yen, Shun-Chin Hsu, ELP wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Yasushi Tanase, ISshogi wins Shogi tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Jaap Bus,Dam 2.2 wins Draughts tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Frank Berger, BGBlitz wins Backgammon tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
  Hiroyuki Iida, Control Freak wins Dots-and-Boxes tournament. » 7th Computer Olympiad
• Martin Fierz, Murray Cash, Ed Gilbert, The 2002 World Computer-Checkers Championship.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4

• David Fotland, Static Eye in "The Many Faces of Go".
• Zhixing Chen, Semi-Empirical Quantitative Theory of Go Part I: Estimation of the Influence of a Wall.
• Martin Müller, Position Evaluation in Computer Go.
• Theo van der Storm, The 22nd Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 2002
• Frédéric Louguet, The 9th French Computer-Chess Championship. » FCCC 2002
• Karsten Müller, The Clash of the Titans: Kramnik – Fritz Bahrain. » Kramnik versus Deep Fritz 2002
• Matthias Wüllenweber, The Match from Fritz' View Point.
• Alvin Levy, The 6th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• Frank Berger, Backgammon at the 7th Computer Olympiad. » 7th Computer Olympiad
• Jos Uiterwijk, The 7th Computer Olympiad - Report on the Computer-Games Workshop. » 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
• Guy Haworth, The ICGA on the Web.

Volume 26, 2003

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1

• David Levy, The State of the Art in Man vs. “Machine” Chess. » Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003
• Karsten Müller, Man Equals Machine in Chess. » Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003
• Bruno Bouzy, The move decision strategy of Indigo.
• Matthew Pratola, Thomas Wolf, Optimizing GOTOOLS' Search Heuristics using Genetic Algorithms.
• Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, The Match Bareev vs. Hiarcs X. » Bareev versus Hiarcs 2003
• Vincent Diepeveen, The 12th International Paderborn Computer-Chess Championship. » IPCCC 2003

ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2

• Ken Chen, The Way to Go is Bottom Up.
• Ernst A. Heinz, Follow-Up on Self-Play, Deep Search, and Diminishing Returns.
• Erik van der Werf, Jaap van den Herik, Jos Uiterwijk, Solving Go on Small Boards.
• Carlos Justiniano, Colin Frayn, The ChessBrain Project: A Global Effort To Build The World's Largest Chess SuperComputer.
• Guy Haworth, Self-Play: Statistical Significance.
• Guy Haworth, Reference Fallible Endgame Play.
• Omar Syed, Aamir Syed, Arimaa - A New Game Designed to be Difficult for Computers.
• Ingo Althöfer, A 20-Choice Experiment in Go for Human+Computer.
• Theo van der Storm, The 3rd International CSVN Tournament. » ICT 2003
• Theo van der Storm, Computer-Chess History.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3

• Brian Sheppard, Endgame Play in Scrabble.
• Levente Kocsis, Jaap van den Herik, Jos Uiterwijk, Two Learning Algorithms for Forward Pruning, postscript
• Ingo Althöfer, Jens Lieberum, Johan de Koning, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Thomas Rolle, Jörg Sameith, Five visualizations of the k-best mode. ^[16]
• Mitja Luštrek, Matjaž Gams, Ivan Bratko, A Program for Playing Tarok.
• Alvin Levy, Report on the 7th ACBL's World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• Nobusuke Sasaki, The Gifu Challenge 2003 World Computer-Go Championship. ^[17]
• The Board of the ICGA, Garry Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz. » Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003

ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4

• Pedro Campos, Thibault Langlois, Abalearn: a Program that Learns How to Play Abalone.
• Ed Trice, Gil Dodgen, The Perfect 7-Piece Checkers Database.
• Henk van Haeringen, Jaap van den Herik, Superchess.
• David Levy, Kasparov vs X3D Fritz. » Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003
• Jan Renze Steenhuisen, Report on the 10th Advances in Computer Games Conference. pdf » Advances in Computer Games 10
• Omid David, The 11th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2003
• Mark Winands, Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The 8th Computer Olympiad.
  Ken Chen, GNUGo wins 19x19 Go tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Erik van der Werf, Aya wins 9x9 Go tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, MIA IV wins Lines of Action tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Jens Lieberum, Amazong wins Amazons tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Ton Tillemans, Sjende Blyn wins Draughts tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Jr-Chang Chen, Shi-Jim Yen, Shun-Chin Hsu, ZMBL wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Hiroshi Yamashita, YSS wins Shogi tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  David Bochenski, Control Freak wins Dots-and-Boxes tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Frank Berger, BGBlitz wins Backgammon tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Tino Werner, Peer Sommerlund, Gert Snider, Aba-Pro wins Abalone tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Gábor Melis, Ryan Hayward, Six wins Hex Tournament. pdf » 8th Computer Olympiad
  Darse Billings, Vexbot wins Poker tournament. » 8th Computer Olympiad
• Theo van der Storm, The 23rd Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 2003

Volume 27, 2004

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1

• Jacek Mańdziuk, Daniel Osman, Alpha-Beta Search Enhancements with a Real-Value Game-State Evaluation Function. pdf
• Haw-ren Fang, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Shun-Chin Hsu, Checking Indefinitely in Chinese-Chess Endgames.
• Shi-Jim Yen, Jr-Chang Chen, Tai-Ning Yang, Shun-Chin Hsu, Computer Chinese Chess. pdf
• Christian Hesse, Fisher Numbers.
• Eric van Reem, The 13th International Paderborn Computer-Chess Championship. » IPCCC 2004

ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2

• Brian Sheppard, Efficient Control of Selective Simulations. ^[18]
• Ed Trice, 80 Square Chess.
• Julio César Hernández-Castro, Ignacio Blasco-López, L.Javier Garcéa-Villalba, Hiding Data in Games.
• Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, The Complete-Chess Match Stellwagen vs. Baramidze.
• Omar Syed, Jeroen Donkers, The Arimaa match.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3

• Omid David, Ariel Felner, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Blockage Detection in Pawn Endgames.
• Yew Jin Lim, Jürg Nievergelt, Computing Tigers and Goats. pdf
• Johannes Zwanzger, The 12th Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2004
• Amir Ban, Deep Junior Confirms its Strength. » WCCC 2004, Deep Junior
• Bruno Bouzy, The 4th Computers and Games conference. » CG 2004
• Mark Winands, Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The 9th Computer Olympiad.
  David Fotland, Go Intellect wins 19x19 Go tournament. » 9th Computer Olympiad
  Bruno Bouzy, Go Intellect wins 9x9 Go tournament. » 9th Computer Olympiad
  Kuang-che Wu, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Shun-Chin Hsu, Contemplation wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 9th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, MIA 4++ wins Lines of Action tournament. » 9th Computer Olympiad
  Johan de Koning, 8QP regains Amazons title. » 9th Computer Olympiad
  Jan Willemson, Yngvi Björnsson, Six wins Hex tournament. » 9th Computer Olympiad
  Dan Gendelman, Ram Meshulam, TestMe2 wins Octi 6x7 Tournament. » 9th Computer Olympiad
• Theo van der Storm, Shredder Shows Strength in International CSVN Tournament. » ICT 2004, Shredder
• Rémi Coulom, The Massy 2004 Computer Chess Tournament. » Massy 2004
• Alvin Levy, The 8th Annual ACBL's World Computer-Bridge Championship.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4

• Markian Hlynka, Jonathan Schaeffer, Pre-Searching.
• Gady Costeff, The Chess Query Language: CQL, pdf
• Daniel Walker, Robert Levinson, The MORPH Project in 2004.
• Guillermo Campitelli, Fernand Gobet, Adaptive Expert Decision making: Skilled Chess Players Search More and Deeper.
• Theo van der Storm, The 24th Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship. » DOCCC 2004
• Ernest Bonnem, The 11th French Computer-Chess Championship. » FCCC 2004
• Maciej Szmit, The 3rd Polish Computer-Chess Championship. » PCCC 2004
• Reijer Grimbergen, The 9th Game-Programming Workshop in Japan 2004. » Game Programming Workshops
• Jaap van den Herik, The World Chess Team Championship Man vs. Machine. » Man vs Machine Team Championship
• Ed Trice, The 2004 Gothic Chess Computer World Championship.
• Ken Thompson, Obituary: Michael Joseph Valvo (1942-2004).
• John Hamlen, Seven Year Itch. ^[19]

Volume 28, 2005

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1

• Kohei Noshita, Union-Connections and Straightforward Winning Strategies in Hex. companion document 2006 as pdf
• Ingo Althöfer, Susanne Heuser, Randomised Evaluations in Single-Agent Search.
• Dap Hartmann, The True Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence.
• Jan Willemson, A Computer-Clobber Tournament at the Tartu University. » Clobber

ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2

• Mark Levene, Judit Bar-Ilan, Comparing Move Choices of Chess Search Engines.
• Kai Himstedt, An Optimistic Pondering Approach for Asynchronous Distributed Games. » Pondering
• Haw-ren Fang, The Nature of Retrograde Analysis for Chinese Chess, Part I. » Retrograde Analysis, Chinese Chess
• ChessBase, the Editor, John Nunn, David Levy, Adams Outclassed by HYDRA. » Hydra
• David Levy, Man vs. Machine – What Next?
• Theo van der Storm The 5th International Open CSVN Tournament. » ICT 2005
• Jan van Reek, Jos Uiterwijk, The Complete-Chess Match Stellwagen vs. Van Wely.
• Maciej Szmit, The 4th Polish Computer-Chess Championship. » PCCC 2005
• Omar Syed, Jeroen Donkers, The 2nd Arimaa Challenge Match. » Arimaa
• Reijer Grimbergen, The 15th CSA World Computer-Shogi Championship. » Shogi
• The Editor, ZAPPA Wins the Computer-Chess Tournament 7. » Zappa, CCT7

ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3

• Robert Hyatt, Anthony Cozzie, The Effect of Hash Signature Collisions in a Chess Program.
• Haw-ren Fang, Nature of Retrograde Analysis for Chinese Chess, Part II. » Retrograde Analysis, Chinese Chess
• Guy Haworth, 6-Man Chess Solved.
• Yngvi Björnsson, Jaap van den Herik, The 13th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2005
• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The 10th Computer Olympiad.
  Shi-Jim Yen, Jr-Chang Chen, Handtalk III wins 19x19 Go tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
  Shi-Jim Yen, Jeng-Chi Yan, Go Intellect wins 9x9 Go tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
  Jr-Chang Chen, Shi-Jim Yen, Shun-Chin Hsu, XQMaster wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
  Richard J. Lorentz, 8QP wins Amazons tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
  Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Tacos wins Shogi tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
  Jan Willemson, Mark Winands, Mila wins Clobber tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
  Michael Greenspan, Uofa wins Pool tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
  David Bochenski, Deep Beige wins Dots and Boxes tournament. » 10th Computer Olympiad
• Fredrik Niemelä, The 11th Advances in Computer Games Conference. » Advances in Computer Games 11

ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4

• Jeng-Chi Yan, Shun-Chin Hsu, Jaap van den Herik, The Sacrifice Move.
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Jan Renze Steenhuisen, New Results in Deep-Search Behaviour. pdf
• I-Chen Wu, Dei-Yen Huang, Hsiu-Chen Chang, Connect6. pdf
• Alvin Levy, The 9th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• David Levy, The 2nd Bilbao Man vs. Machine Team Championship.
• Will Leckie, Michael Greenspan, Pool Physics Simulation by Event Prediction 1: Motion Transitions.

Volume 29, 2006

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1

• Fridel Fainshtein, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems. pdf
• Azlan Iqbal, Is Aesthetics Computable? pdf
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Will Leckie, Michael Greenspan, Pool Physics Simulation by Event Prediction 2: Collisions.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2

• Jaap van den Herik, The Interpretation of Rules. Editorial, pdf
• Ulf Lorenz, A new Implementation of Error Analysis in Game Trees.
• Tom Kronenburg, Jeroen Donkers, Alex de Voogt, Never-Ending Moves in Bao. pdf
• Matej Guid, Ivan Bratko, Computer Analysis of World Chess Champions. pdf, chessbase article
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The 14th World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 2006
• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The 11th Computer Olympiad.
  Rémi Coulom, Ken Chen, Crazy Stone wins 9x9 Go tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Rémi Coulom, Ken Chen, Gnu Go wins 19x19 Go tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Shi-Jim Yen, Shun-Chin Hsu, NEUChess wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Ton Tillemans, TDKing wins the Draughts 10x10 tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, YSS wins Shogi tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, Pan wins Clobber tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini, Darkboard wins KriegSpiel tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad

ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3

• Graham Kendall, Jonathan Schaeffer, Poker.
• Darse Billings, Morgan Kan, A Tool for the Direct Assessment of Poker Decisions.
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Alvin Levy, The 10th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, The 11th Computer Olympiad (continued).
  Michael Greenspan, PickPocket wins Pool tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  I-Chen Wu, Shi-Jim Yen, NCTU6 wins Connect6 tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Frank Berger, GnuBG wins Backgammon tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, MIA 4.5 wins Lines of Action tournament. » 11th Computer Olympiad
  Ryan Hayward, Six Wins Hex tournament. pdf » 11th Computer Olympiad

ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4

• Ken Chen, Peigang Zhang, A New Heuristic Search Algorithm for Capturing Problems in Go.
• Darse Billings, On the Importance of Embracing Risk in Tournaments. ^[20]
• Aviezri Fraenkel, Nim is Easy, Chess is Hard – But Why?? pdf
• Jeroen Noomen, The Revolution of 2005 and the Rating Lists.
• Eric van Reem, Shredder Wins Second Chess960 Computer-Chess World Championship.
• Maciej Szmit, The 5th Polish Computer-Chess Championship: The Second Comeback of Butcher.
• Theo van der Storm, The 26th Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship.
• Matthias Wüllenweber, Frederic Friedel, Mathias Feist, Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz 10: Computer wins match by 4-2. » Kramnik versus Deep Fritz 2006
• Fernand Gobet, Adriaan de Groot: Marriage of two Passions. pdf

Volume 30, 2007

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1

• Reijer Grimbergen, Using Bitboards for Move Generation in Shogi. pdf
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini, A Program to Play Kriegspiel.
• Tristan Cazenave, Playing the Right Atari. pdf
• Maarten Schadd, Mark Winands, Maurice Bergsma, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Fanorona is a Draw. pdf

ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2

• Sam Tannous, Avoiding Rotated Bitboards with Direct Lookup. pdf
• Matej Guid, Ivan Bratko, Factors affecting diminishing returns for searching deeper. pdf » CGW 2007
• Jeroen Noomen, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, The 15th World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 2007
• Jaap van den Herik, Mark Winands, Johanna Hellemons, The 12th Computer Olympiad.
  Erik van der Werf, Steenvreter wins 9x9 Go tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  Sylvain Gelly, Yizao Wang, MoGo wins 19x19 Go tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  Changming Xu, NEUChess wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  Frank Berger, BGBlitz wins Backgammon tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  I-Chen Wu, Shi-Jim Yen, X6 wins Connect6 tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
• Tristan Cazenave, Clyde Kruskal, Bruno Bouzy, Computer Games Workshop 2007. » CGW 2007
• Shay Bushinsky, Showdown in Elista. » Deep Fritz versus Deep Junior 2007
• Maciej Szmit, The 6th International Polish Computer-Chess Championship. » IOPCCC 2007

ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3

• David Levy, Obituary Donald Michie (1923-2007).
• Hans Secelle, Eric van Reem, Golden Summer for RYBKA. » Rybka, Chess960CWC 2007
• Jaap van den Herik, Mark Winands, Johanna Hellemons, The 12th Computer Olympiad (continued).
  Ton Tillemans, Dam 2.2 wins Draughts tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, SIA wins Surakarta tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, 8QP wins Amazons tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  Junichi Hashimoto, Tacos wins Shogi tournament. » 12th Computer Olympiad
  Tristan Cazenave, Joris Bosboom, GoLois wins Phantom Go tournament. pdf » 12th Computer Olympiad
• Li-Te Huang, Shan-Tai Chen, Shih-Chieh Huang, Shun-Shii Lin, An Efficient Approach to Solve Mastermind Optimally.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4

• Rémi Coulom, Computing Elo Ratings of Move Patterns in the Game of Go, pdf » CGW 2007
• Anthony Cozzie, Zappa vs. Rybka. » Zappa versus Rybka 2007
• Alvin Levy, The 11th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.

Volume 31, 2008

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1

• Trevor Fenner, Mark Levene, Move Generation with Perfect Hash Functions, pdf » Congruent Modulo Bitboards
• Nathan Sturtevant, An Analysis of UCT in Multi-Player Games. pdf
• Rémi Coulom, Crazy Stone wins First UEC Cup. pdf

ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2

• Jaap van den Herik, From Maastricht to Tilburg.
• Azlan Iqbal, Mashkuri Yaacob, Theme Detection and Evaluation in Chess.
• Alex Morozov, The 1st Computer Chess Championship of CIS Countries.
• Haw-ren Fang, James Glenn, Clyde Kruskal, Retrograde approximation algorithms for Jeopardy stochastic games. pdf
• Ken Chen, Peigang Zhang, Monte-Carlo Go with Knowledge-Guided Simulations. » CGW 2007

ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3

• Vladan Vučković, The Compact Chessboard Representation.
• Guillaume Chaslot, Mark Winands, István Szita, Jaap van den Herik, Cross-entropy for Monte-Carlo Tree Search, pdf
• Matej Guid, Aritz Pérez, Ivan Bratko, How trustworthy is Crafty's analysis of world chess champions? pdf » CGW 2007
• Guillaume Chaslot, Jean-Baptiste Hoock, Arpad Rimmel, Olivier Teytaud, Chang-Shing Lee, Mei-Hui Wang, Shang-Rong Tsai, Shun-Chin Hsu, Human-Computer Go Revolution 2008.
• Omid David, The 16th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2008
  Omid David, The 16th World Computer Speed-Chess Championship.
• Jaap van den Herik, Mark Winands, Johanna Hellemons, The 13th International Computer-Games Championship.
  Mark Winands, SIA wins Surakarta tournament. » 13th Computer Olympiad
  Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Tacos wins Shogi tournament. » 13th Computer Olympiad
  Jiao Wang, Xinhe Xu, Intella wins Chinese Chess tournament. » 13th Computer Olympiad
• Alvin Levy, The 12th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4

• Sacha Droste, Johannes Fürnkranz, Learning the Piece Values for three Chess Variants.
• Hiroyuki Iida, The Minutes of the Triennial meeting.
• Jaap van den Herik, Mark Winands, Johanna Hellemons, The 13th Computer Games Championship (part 2).
  I-Chen Wu, Ping-Hung Lin, NCTU6-Lite wins Connect6 tournament.» 13th Computer Olympiad
  Ton Tillemans, TDKing wins Draughts tournament. » 13th Computer Olympiad
  Richard J. Lorentz, The Shark wins Dots and Boxes tournament.» 13th Computer Olympiad
• Chang-Shing Lee, Mei-Hui Wang, Yuan-Liang Wang, Shun-Chin Hsu, The 2008 computational intelligence forum and the world 9x9 computer-Go championship in Taiwan.
• Maarten Schadd, Imer Satz, The 2nd Computer Stratego World Championship. pdf

Volume 32, 2009

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1

• Christophe Thiery, Bruno Scherrer, Building Controllers for Tetris.
• Reijer Grimbergen, On the Relation between Perception and Recognition in Shogi.
• Christophe Thiery, Bruno Scherrer, Improvements on Learning Tetris with Cross Entropy.
• Esa A. Seuranen, Entropy in Go.
• Jaap van den Herik, Mark Winands, Johanna Hellemons, The 13th Computer Games Championship (part 3).
  Richard J. Lorentz, Invader wins Amazons tournament. » 13th Computer Olympiad
  Tristan Cazenave, GoLois wins Phantom-Go tournament. » 13th Computer Olympiad
  Broderick Arneson, Ryan Hayward, Philip Henderson, Wolve 2008 wins Hex tournament. » 13th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, Many Faces of Go wins 9x9 and 19x19 Go tournaments. » 13th Computer Olympiad
• Omar Syed, The 6th Annual Arimaa Computer World Championship.
• David Levy, Mikhail Donskoy - An Obituary. » Mikhail Donskoy
• Jaap van den Herik, Theo van der Storm - An Obituary. » Theo van der Storm
• Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez, The World's Smallest Chess Program. » Toledo
• Harm Geert Muller, Toledo Nanochess.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2

• Kevin Stebbing, Exploring the Search Space of Texas hold'em. » Poker
• Erik van der Werf, Mark Winands, Solving Go for Rectangular Boards.
• Frédéric Prost, Twilight Chess. A Chess Variant Designed to Rehabilitate Human vs. Computer Challenge.
• Dap Hartmann, A Thesis is more than three unrelated Ideas. Review of Fritz M.H. Reul, New Architectures in Computer Chess.
• Richard Pijl, The 17th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2009
• Hans van der Zijden, The Open Chess Tournament. » 14th Computer Olympiad
• Jaap van den Herik, Pieter Spronck, Johanna Hellemons, The 14th Computer Olympiad. » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Jr-Chang Chen, Bo-Nian Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu, TMSK wins the Chinese-Chess tournament. » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Ping-Hung Lin, I-Chen Wu, Shun-Chin Hsu, Bit wins Connect6 tournament. » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Ken Chen, Fuego wins 9x9 Go tournaments.» 14th Computer Olympiad
  Ken Chen], //Zen wins 19x19 Go tournaments//. » [[14th Computer Olympiad#Go|14th Computer Olympiad
  Junichi Hashimoto, Tacos wins Shogi tournament. » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Julien Kloetzer, Invader wins Amazons tournament. » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, MIA wins Lines of Action tournament. » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Broderick Arneson, Ryan Hayward, Philip Henderson, MoHex wins Hex tournament. pdf » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Tristan Cazenave, Golois wins Phantom Go Tournament. pdf » 14th Computer Olympiad
  Gian Piero Favini, Darkboard wins KriegSpiel tournament. » 14th Computer Olympiad
• Jan Krabbenbos, Hiarcs wins 9th International CSVN Tournament ICT 9. » ICT 2009
• Omar Syed, The 6th Annual Arimaa Challenge Match. » Arimaa
• Reijer Grimbergen, The 19th CSA World Computer-Shogi Championship. » Shogi

ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3

• Seth Pellegrino, Andrew Hubbard, Jason Galbraith, Peter D. Drake, Yung-Pin Chen, Localizing Search in Monte-Carlo Go using Statistical Covariance.
• Julien Kloetzer, Hiroyuki Iida, Bruno Bouzy, Playing Amazons Endgames, pdf
• Richard J. Lorentz, The Advances in Computer Games Conference 2009.
• Eric van Reem, Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship 2009.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4

• Jakob Erdmann, Chanciness: Towards a Characterization of Chance in Games.
• Rade Šolak, Vladan Vučković, Time Management during a Chess Game. » Time Management
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame Update.
• Gyula Horváth, The Hungarian Computer Chess Tournament.
• Sven Jug, Maarten Schadd, The 3rd Computer Stratego World Championship. pdf

Volume 33, 2010

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1

• Fritz Reul, Static Exchange Evaluation with αβ-Approach.
• Jiao Wang, Si-Zhong Li, Xin-He Xu, A Minors Hash Table in Chinese-Chess Programs.
• Dap Hartmann, Mimicking the Black Box - Genetically evolving evaluation functions and search algorithms. Review on Omid David's Ph.D. Thesis ^[21]

ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2

• Omid David, Moshe Koppel, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Genetic Algorithms for Automatic Search Tuning.
• Yoshikuni Sato, Daisuke Takahashi, Reijer Grimbergen, A Shogi Program based on Monte-Carlo Tree Search. pdf
• Bo-Nian Chen, Bing-Jie Shen, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Chinese Dark Chess.
• Larry Kaufman, Handicap Matches: Rybka vs. Grandmaster.
• Larry Kaufman, A New Use For Monte-Carlo.
• The Board of the ICGA, The 2008 and 2009 ChessBase Best-Publication Awards.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3

• Jaap van den Herik, Farewell to the Turing Test?
• Maarten van Emden, André Vellino, From Chinese Room to Human Window.
• Azlan Iqbal, Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations. Part I Combinatorics and Weights
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame Knowledge Advances.
• Dap Hartmann, Human Superiority Restored. Review Advances in Computer Games 12 revised papers, edited by Jaap van den Herik and Pieter Spronck
• Richard J. Lorentz, The 7th Computer and Games Conference.
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, The 18th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2010
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The JAIST Computer Olympiad.
  Frank Karger, Michael Babar, MyGoFriend wins Go 9x9 Tournament.» 15th Computer Olympiad
  Shih-Chieh Huang, Shi-Jim Yen, Many Faces of Go wins Go 13x13 Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  David Fotland, Erica wins Go 19x19 Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  I-Chen Wu, Ping-Hung Lin, Shi-Jim Yen, MoreThenFive wins the Connect-6 Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Broderick Arneson, Ryan Hayward, Philip Henderson, MoHex wins Hex Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad

ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4

• Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom, Shun-Shii Lin, Monte-Carlo Simulation Balancing applied to 9x9 Go.
• Azlan Iqbal, Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations, Part II Normality
• Eiko Bleicher, Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden, Data-Mining Chess Databases.
• Ingo Althöfer, Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Recombination Games. Doctoral Dissertation by Cameron Browne, Review ^[22]
• Dap Hartmann, How can Humans learn from Computers? Search and Knowledge for Human and Machine Problem Solving, Matej Guid, Ph.D. thesis ^[23]
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, The 1st World Computer-Software Championship]]. » WCSC 2010
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The JAIST Computer Olympiad (Part 2).
  Shi-Jim Yen, Shih-Yuan Chiu, I-Chen Wu, Modark wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Richard J. Lorentz, Castro wins Havannah Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Hsin-Hung Chou, Shi-Yuan Chiu, Shi-Jim Yen, Cpuzzler wins Light Up Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  I-Chen Wu, Der-Johng Sun, Shi-Jim Yen, HappyNuri wins Nurikabe Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Gekisashi wins Shogi Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Ton Tillemans, TDKing wins Draughts Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
• Alvin Levy, The 14th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.

Volume 34, 2011

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1

• David Levy, Attack of the Clones. ^[24]
• Jakub Pawlewicz, Towards Optimal Play in Multi-Player Yahtzee.
• Eiko Bleicher, Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden, Uniqueness in Chess Studies.
• Cameron Browne, The Dangers of Random Playouts.
• Hiroyuki Iida, The 2011 Japan Prize Awarded to Unix Pioneers. ^[25]
• Eric van Reem, Chess Classics Mainz - End of an Era.
• Jan Eric Larsson Understanding the Turing Test. on Maarten van Emden, André Vellino (2010). From Chinese Room to Human Window. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3
• Maarten van Emden, André Vellino Understanding the Human Window. reaction on Jan Eric Larsson Understanding the Turing Test
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The JAIST Computer Olympiad (Part 3).
  Shi-Jim Yen, Shi-Yuan Chiu, Cheng-Wei Chou, Jr-Chang Chen, Cpuzzler wins Nonogram Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Abdallah Saffidine, Moccos wins the Panthom-Go Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Haruhiko Akiyama, QAI wins the Quoridor Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Takeshi Ito, Clair 1/128 wins 5x5 Shogi Tournament.» 15th Computer Olympiad
  Mark Winands, SIA wins Surakarta tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
• Hung-Hsuan Lin, Der-Johng Sun, I-Chen Wu, Shi-Jim Yen, The 2010 TAAI Computer Game Tournaments.
• Dap Hartmann, Sander Bakkes: Rapid Adaptation of Video Game AI. Review ^[26]

ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2

• Jaap van den Herik, Krzysztof Siewicz, Open Source has a Price.
• David Levy, Rybka Disqualified and Banned from World Computer Chess Championships. » Rybka
• David Levy, A Very Sad Case. » ICGA Investigations
• Matej Guid, Ivan Bratko, Using Heuristic-Search Based Engines for Estimating Human Skill at Chess.
• Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden, Eiko Bleicher, Zugzwangs in Chess Studies.
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Dap Hartmann, Is Go the Next Human Bastion to Crumble? Review CG 2010 revisited papers
• Mark Lefler, Robert Hyatt, Harvey Williamson, ICGA panel, Rybka Investigations and Survey of Findings for the ICGA. » ICGA Investigations
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The JAIST Computer Olympiad (Part 4).
  Shi-Jim Yen, Tsan-Cheng Su, I-Chen Wu, Shiga wins Chinese Chess Tournament. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Hiroyuki Iida, Dots and Boxes. » 15th Computer Olympiad
  Johan de Koning, Invader prolongs Amazons Title. » 15th Computer Olympiad
• Ingo Althöfer, John Tromp in the Style of David Levy: 4-0 win in the Go bet.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3

• Petr Baudiš, Balancing MCTS by Dynamically Adjusting the Komi Value.
• Richard J. Lorentz, Experiments with Monte-Carlo Tree Search in the Game of Havannah.
• Wojciech Wieczorek, Rafał Skinderowicz, Jan Kozak, Przemysław Juszczuk New Trends in Clobber Programming.
• Raphaël Couturier, Computer Diaballik. ^[27]
• Dap Hartmann, Review: The Dark Side of the Board: Advances in Chess Kriegspiel. ^[28]
• Guofeng Tong, Xinhe Xu, Progress of Computer Games in China.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4

• Ingo Althöfer, On Games with Random-Turn Order and Monte Carlo Perfectness.
• Xiaocong Gan, Yun Bao, Zhangang Han, Real-Time Search Method in Nondeterministic Game - Ms.Pac-Man.
• Hung-Hsuan Lin, I-Chen Wu, An Efficient Approach to Solving the Minimum Sudoku Problem.
• Alvin Levy, The 15th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, The 2011 World Computer Speed-Chess Championship.
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, The 19th World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2011
• Jaap van den Herik, Dennis A. Ritchie (1941 - 2011).
• Johan van Benthem, John McCarthy (1927-2011). » John McCarthy

Volume 35, 2012

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1

• Diogo R. Ferreira, Determining the Strength of Chess Players based on actual Play.
• Cameron Browne, Yavalath: Sample chapter from Evolutionary Game Design.
• Cameron Browne, Go without Ko on Hexagonal Grids.
• Ingo Althöfer, The Origin of Dynamic Komi.
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, The 13th Advances in Computer Games Conference. » Advances in Computer Games 13
  Ingo Althöfer, Side Report: Popular Video Livestream.
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, The 2nd World Chess Software Championship. » WCSC 2011
• John Hamlen, Game Over for the Woodpusher Experiment: 7+7=0. » Woodpusher
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The 16th Computer Olympiad.
  Frank Berger, Palamedes wins Backgammon Tournament. » 16th Computer Olympiad
  Ming-Cheng Cheng, Jr-Chang Chen, Tsan-Cheng Su, Shi-Jim Yen, Shiga wins Chinese Chess Tournament. » 16th Computer Olympiad
  Ingo Althöfer, PAN wins Clobber Tournament. » 16th Computer Olympiad
  Richard J. Lorentz, Castro wins Havannah Tournament. » 16th Computer Olympiad

ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2

• Kai Himstedt, GridChess: Combining Optimistic Pondering with the Young Brothers Wait Concept.
• Matthew L. Ginsberg, The Crossword Solver DR.FILL.
• Guy McCrossan Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Dap Hartmann, Review: Of Triskaidekaphobia and Board-Filling Games with Random-Turn Order. » Advances in Computer Games 13
• Jan-Jaap van Horssen, Schwarzman vs. MAXIMUS: A Man-Machine Match in International Draughts. pdf
• Der-Johng Sun, Kuang-che Wu, I-Chen Wu, Shi-Jim Yen, Kuo-Yuan Kao, Nonogram Tournaments in TAAI 2011. ^{[29] [30]}
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The 16th Computer Olympiad (Part 2).
  Wesley Turner, Einstein Würfelt Nicht - An Analysis of Endgame Play - 16th Computer Olympiad. » 16th Computer Olympiad
  Ryan Hayward, MoHex wins Hex Tournament. » 16th Computer Olympiad

ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3

• Akihiro Kishimoto, Mark Winands, Martin Müller, Jahn-Takeshi Saito, Game-Tree Search using Proof Numbers: The First Twenty Years.
• Kuo-Yuan Kao, I-Chen Wu, Yi-Chang Shan, Shi-Jim Yen, Selection Search for Mean and Temperature of Multi-branch Combinatorial Games.
• Jiao Wang, Hongye Li, Chenjun Xiao, Xin-He Xu, The 2nd National University Student Computer-Games Tournaments.
• Jiao Wang, Jiangshan Wang, Xin-He Xu, The 6th Chinese Computer-Games Championship.
• Mark Winands, Tristan Cazenave, Computer Games Workshop at ECAI 2012. » ECAI CGW 2012
• Jan-Jaap van Horssen, Schwarzman vs. MAXIMUS: Games 5 and 6 annotated.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 4

• Joost Batenburg, Walter Kosters, On the Difficulty of Nonograms. ^[31]
• Aart Bik, Computing Deep Perft and Divide Numbers for Checkers. » Perft, Checkers
• Ingo Althöfer, Havannah – The Old Man and the C’s. » Havannah
• David Levy, From Computer Games to a Global Brain. ^[32]
• Jaap van den Herik, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The 16th Computer Olympiad (Part 3).
  Johan de Koning, Invader wins Amazons Tournament. » 16th Computer Olympiad
  Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons, Results of other Tournaments.
• Chang-Shing Lee, Mei-Hui Wang, Olivier Teytaud, Shi-Jim Yen, Human vs. Machine Go Competitions in IEEE WCCI 2012. » Go
• Ching-Nung Lin, Shi-Jim Yen, The Computer Go Tournaments in TCGA 2012.
• Tom Pepels, The CIG’12 MS Pac-Man vs. Ghosts Competition. ^[33]
• Jan Krabbenbos, Ton van der Valk, The Havannah Challenge.
• Al Levy, The 16th Annual World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• Cameron Browne, LUDI wins 9th Annual “Humies” Award. ^[34]
• The Editor, Thanks to Michael Buro, Ken Chen, and Hans Kuijf.
• The Editor, Welcome to Ingo Althöfer, Cameron Browne, and Guy Haworth.
• The Board of ICGA, Announcement of the Yokohama Events.

Volume 36, 2013

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1

• Pim Nijssen, Mark Winands, Search Policies in Multi-Player Games.
• Kunihito Hoki, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Akihiro Kishimoto, Takeshi Ito, Parallel Dovetailing and its Application to Depth-First Proof-Number Search. ^[35]
• Kevin O'Gorman, Chomp Solver Software is Released. ^[36]
• Guy McCrossan Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Dap Hartmann, Ludo Ergo Sum: Does Game Playing Reveal Your Personality? Review on Giel van Lankveld (2013). Quantifying Individual Player Differences. PhD thesis, Tilburg University
• Guy McCrossan Haworth, Turing, Kasparov and the Future. » Alan Turing, Turochamp
• Aviezri Fraenkel, Reflection. » Stanislaw Ulam, Monte-Carlo Tree Search
• Cheng-Wei Chou, Ching-Nung Lin, Shi-Jim Yen, Hideki Kato, Jr-Chang Chen, The 6th GPW Cup 9x9 and 13x13 Computer Go Tournaments.
• Ching-Nung Lin, Shi-Jim Yen, The TAAI 2012 Computer Go Tournaments and Human vs. Computer Go Competition.
• The Board of ICGA, Rules for the 20th World Computer-Chess Championship. pdf

ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2

• Diogo R. Ferreira, The Impact of the Search Depth on Chess Playing Strength.
• Marko Maliković, Predrag Janičić, Proving Correctness of a KRK Chess Endgame Strategy by SAT-based Constraint Solving.
• Joe Leslie-Hurd, Guy McCrossan Haworth, Computer Theorem Proving and HoTT.
• Guy McCrossan Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Mark Boon, The Beginning of Computer-Go Programs.
• Klaus Kirchhof, How to Play Orthogonal Central Peg English Solitaire Without a Computer.
• Dap Hartmann, Optimistically Parallelizing Parallel Search Processes. Review on Kai Himstedt's Ph.D. thesis Optimistische verteilte Spielbaumsuche am Beispiel des Computerschachs.
• The Board of ICGA, The 2011 and 2012 Best Publication Awards.
• The Board of ICGA, The 2011 ICGA Journal Award.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3

• Hung-Hsuan Lin, I-Chen Wu, Ting-Han Wei, On Specific 17-clue Sudoku Puzzles.
• John Nunn, Discoveries in R+2P vs. R+P Endings.
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Klaus Kirchhof, A Diagonal English Peg Solitaire Problem: from 32 to 9 Pegs.
• Jan Krabbenbos, Guy Haworth, Jaap van den Herik, The 20th World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 2013
  Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, The 2013 World Computer Speed-Chess Championship.
• Jan Krabbenbos, Guy Haworth, Jaap van den Herik, The 3rd World Chess Software Championship. » WCSC 2013
• Wen-Jie Tseng, Jr-Chang Chen, Lung-Ping Chen, Shi-Jim Yen, I-Chen Wu, TCGA 2013 Computer Game Tournaments.
• Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Aske Plaat, The 8th Computers and Games Conference. » CG 2013
  Ingo Althöfer, The wild Years are gone: Monte Carlo in Smoother Waters. Conference Report CG 2013
• Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The Brain and Mind Sports Olympiad. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Jr-Chang Chen, Shi-Jim Yen, Tsan-Cheng Su, SHIGA Wins Chinese Chess Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Shi-Jim Yen, Jr-Chang Chen, Bo-Nian Chen, Wen-Jie Tseng, DARKNIGHT Wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Ingo Althöfer, PAN Wins Clobber Tournament - King of Clobber - De Koning and his PAN. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Ting-Han Wei, Wen-Jie Tseng, I-Chen Wu, Shi-Jim Yen, MOBILE 6 Wins Connect6 Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Ryan Hayward, Broderick Arneson, Shih-Chieh Huang, Jakub Pawlewicz, MOHEX Wins Hex Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Wen-Jie Tseng, Li-Kai Chuang, I-Chen Wu, Shun-Shii Lin, Shi-Jim Yen, LONGCAT Wins Mahjong Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Wen-Jie Tseng, Jr-Chang Chen, Pohsuan She, I-Chen Wu, HAPPYNOGO Wins NOGO Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
• Mark Winands, Tristan Cazenave, Computer Games Workshop at IJCAI 2013. » IJCAI 2013
• Jaap van den Herik, Alexander Bitman, an Obituary. » Alexander Bitman

ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4

• Jaap van den Herik, From Tilburg to Leiden.
• Karsten Müller, Guy Haworth, Rook vs. Bishop.
• Bo-Nian Chen, Hung-Jui Chang, Shun-Chin Hsu, Jr-Chang Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Multilevel Inference in Chinese Chess Endgame Knowledge Bases.
• Mehdi Mhalla, Frédéric Prost, Gardner’s Minichess Variant is Solved.
• Wojciech Wieczorek, Rafał Skinderowicz, Jan Kozak, Przemysław Juszczuk, Arkadiusz Nowakowski, Selected Algorithms from the 2013 Toads-and-Frogs Blitz Tournament.
• Dap Hartmann, From to αβ to ABCD and SMAB. Review on Abdallah Saffidine's Ph.D. thesis ^[37]
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Guy Haworth, Haworth’s Law.
• Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Aske Plaat, The 8th Computers and Games Conference (Part 2). » CG 2013
• Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The Brain and Mind Sports Olympiad (Part 2). » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Richard J. Lorentz, INVADER Wins Amazons Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Marc Lanctot, LOA Wins Lines of Action Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Tristan Cazenave, GOLOIS Wins Phantom Go Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
  Marc Lanctot, SIA Wins Surakarta Tournament. » 17th Computer Olympiad
• Alvin Levy, The 17th World Computer Bridge Championship.
• Board of ICGA, The 2012 ICGA Journal Award.

Volume 37, 2014

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1

• Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Walter Kosters, Jan van Rijn, Jonathan K. Vis, Acyclic Constraint Logic and Games.
• Bo-Nian Chen, Hung-Jui Chang, Shun-Chin Hsu, Jr-Chang Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Advanced Meta-knowledge for Chinese Chess Endgame Knowledge Bases.
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Dap Hartmann, From Monte Carlo to Scotland Yard. Review on Pim Nijssen (2013). Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Multi-Player Games.
• Tsan-Cheng Su, Shi-Jim Yen, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, TAAI 2012 Computer Game Tournaments.
• Ching-Nung Lin, Shi-Jim Yen, Human vs. Computer Go Competition in FUZZ-IEEE 2013.
• Ching-Nung Lin, Shi-Jim Yen, The Best-of-Seven Human vs. Computer Go Competition in TCGA 2013.
• Jr-Chang Chen, Tsan-Cheng Su, Shi-Jim Yen, TAAI 2013 Computer Game Tournaments.
• Yi-Chang Shan, Ching-Hsuan Wei, Cheng-Hung Lin, I-Chen Wu, Li-Kai Chuang, Shi-Jie Tang, A Framework for Computer Mahjong Competitions.
• Lung-Pin Chen, Der-Johng Sun, Wen-Jie Tseng, Nonogram Tournament in Olympiad Yokohama 2013. » 17th Computer Olympiad
• Klaus Kirchhof, Ornaments to English Peg Solitaire.
• Aske Plaat, Don Dailey, 1956-2013, an Obituary.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2

• Cameron Browne, Bitboard Methods for Games. » Bitboards
• Wojciech Jaśkowski, Systematic n-Tuple Networks for Othello Position Evaluation. » Othello
• Jos Uiterwijk, The Impact of Safe Moves on Perfectly Solving Domineering Boards - Part 1: Analysis of and Experiments with 1-Step Safe Moves. » Domineering
• Mark Watkins, Solved Openings in Losing Chess. » Losing Chess
• Christian Posthoff, Bernd Steinbach, Solving the Game of Sudoku. » Sudoku
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News. » Syzygy Bases
• Jan van Rijn, Jonathan K. Vis, Endgame Analysis of Dou Shou Qi.
• Jan Krabbenbos, The Theo van der Storm Cup. » PT 46

ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3

• David W. King, Gilbert L. Peterson, Epaminondas: Exploring Combat Tactics. ^[38]
• Jos Uiterwijk, The Impact of Safe Moves on Perfectly Solving Domineering Boards - Part 2: Analysis of and Experiments with Multi-Step Safe Moves.
• Cameron Browne, What Can Game AI Teach Us?
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News. » Syzygy Bases, Fritz 14
• Christian Posthoff, Bernd Steinbach, How to Solve Bishop-Problems.
• Robert Hyatt, A Solution to Short PVs Caused by Exact Hash Matches. » Separate TT for the PV
• Dap Hartmann, A Statue of unremitting Devotion. Revised Selected papers CG 2013. (Review) » CG 2013
• Kun-Hao Yeh, Chao-Chin Liang, Kuang-che Wu, I-Chen Wu, 2048-Bot Tournament in Taiwan.
• Jan Kozak, Arkadiusz Nowakowski, Rafał Skinderowicz, Wojciech Wieczorek, The 3rd Silesian University Computer Combinatorial Games Tournament.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4

• Monroe Newborn, Robert Hyatt, Computer Chess Endgame Play with Pawns: Then and Now. » Peasant, Crafty
• Jos Uiterwijk, The Impact of Safe Moves on Perfectly Solving Domineering Boards - Part 3: Theorems and Conjectures.
• John Nunn, Maths and Chess.
• Alvin Levy, ACBL/WBF 18th World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• Omid E. David, Jaap van den Herik, Moshe Koppel, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Team Omid E. David wins the 11th Annual “Humies” Award.
• Shun-Shii Lin, Chih-Hung Chen, Shun-Chin Hsu, I-Chen Wu, Shi-Jim Yen, Jr-Chang Chen, TCGA 2014 Computer Game Tournament. » TCGA 2014
• Mark Winands, Tristan Cazenave, ECAI Computer Games Workshop. » ECAI CGW 2014
• Ingo Althöfer, Raymond Georg Snatzke, The codecentric Go Challenge 2014: Franz-Josef Dickhut vs. CRAZY STONE.
• The Board of ICGA, The 2013 and 2014 Best-Publication Awards.
• The Board of ICGA, The 2013 ICGA Journal Award.
• The Board of ICGA, Rules for the 21st World Computer-Chess Championship. » WCCC 2015
• The Board of ICGA, The 18th Computer Olympiad.
• Aske Plaat, Jaap van den Herik, Walter Kosters, Call for Papers ACG2015 Conference. » Advances in Computer Games 14
• The Board of ICGA, ICGA Triennial meeting and by-laws. » ICGA
• Simon Portegies Zwart, Ben Ruijl, Computer Diplomacy Announcement. » Diplomacy ^[39]
• David Levy, The RYBKA Case – Progress and Verdict. » Rybka Controversy

Volume 38, 2015

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1

• Omar Syed, The Arimaa Challenge: From Inception to Completion. » Arimaa
• David Fotland, Computer Arimaa: The Beginning.
• David J. Wu, Designing a Winning Arimaa Program.
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.
• Qiang Gao, Xinhe Xu, Research on the Computational Complexity of n x n Chinese Chess.
• Andy Lewis, Game Over, Arimaa?

ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2

• Fabien Teytaud, Julien Dehos, On the Tactical and Strategic Behaviour of MCTS when Biasing Random Simulations. » MCTS
• Michael Hartisch, Impact of Rounding during Retrograde Analysis for a Game with Chance Nodes: Karl’s Race as a Test Case. » Games, EinStein würfelt nicht!, Retrograde Analysis
• Galen Huntington, Guy Haworth, Depth to Mate and the 50-Move Rule. » Endgame Tablebases, Fifty-Move Rule
• Dap Hartmann That PEGs the Question: Is it a Game? (Review)
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, Guy Haworth, WCCC 2015: The 21st World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 2015
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, Guy Haworth, WCSC 2015: The 4th World Chess Software Championship. » WCSC 2015
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, Guy Haworth, The World Computer Speed Chess Championship 2015.
• David Levy (2015). The "Horizon Effect" in Politics. » Horizon Effect
• Ingo Althöfer (2015). Obituary: John Nash, A Beautiful Mind has Gone. » John Nash

ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3

• Ting-Han Wei, I-Chen Wu, A Special Issue on Job-level Computing.
• Ting-Han Wei, Chao-Chin Liang, I-Chen Wu, Lung-Pin Chen, Software Development Framework for Job-Level Algorithms.
• Xi Liang, Ting-Han Wei, I-Chen Wu, Solving Hex Openings Using Job-Level UCT Search.
• Ting-Han Wei, I-Chen Wu, Chao-Chin Liang, Bing-Tsung Chiang, Wen-Jie Tseng, Shi-Jim Yen, Chang-Shing Lee, Job-Level Algorithms for Connect6 Opening Book Construction.
• Michael Hartisch, Ingo Althöfer, Optimal Robot Play in Certain Chess Endgame Situations.
• Ingo Althöfer, Richard J. Lorentz, Matthias Beckmann (2015). Advances in Computer Games Conference 2015. Report

ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4

• Jaap van den Herik, Computers and Intuition.
• Takeshi Ito, Daisuke Takano, Changes in Cognitive Processes and Brain Activity.
• Thomas Wolf, A Classification of Semeai with Approach Moves. » Go
• Jaap van den Herik, Walter Kosters, Aske Plaat, Johanna Hellemons, The 18th Computer Olympiad 2015. » 18th Computer Olympiad
  Jaap Bus, SCAN wins Draughts Tournament. 18th Computer Olympiad
  Ingo Althöfer, HANFRIED wins EinStein Würfelt Nicht! Tournament. » 18th Computer Olympiad
  Harm Geert Muller, SHOKIDOKI wins MiniShogi Tournament. » 18th Computer Olympiad
  Kun-Hao Yeh, 2048-KHYEH wins 2048 Tournament. » 18th Computer Olympiad
  Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, I-Chen Wu, DARKKNIGHT wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. » 18th Computer Olympiad
  Pascal Tang, SHIGA wins Chinese Chess Tournament. » 18th Computer Olympiad
• Johanna Hellemons (2015). Minutes of the ICGA Triennial Meeting.

• 2016 Break

Volume 39, 2017

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ICGA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1

• Jean-Marc Alliot, Who is the Master?
• Dap Hartmann, Let's Catch the Train to Monte-Carlo. Review on Hendrik Baier's Ph.D. thesis
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, Guy Haworth, WCCC 2016: The 22nd World Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 2016
• Ryan Hayward, Jakub Pawlewicz, Kei Takada, Tony van der Valk, MOHEX Wins 2015 Hex 11x11 and Hex 13x13 Tournaments. » 18th Computer Olympiad
• Qiang Gao, New Level, New Beginning: the 2015 NSCGT-CCGC Tournament.
• Mark Winands, Tristan Cazenave, IJCAI Computer Games Workshop 2015. » IJCAI 2015
• Alvin Levy, 19th World Computer-Bridge Championship.
• The Board of the ICGA, Five ICGA Events in Leiden, the Netherlands: July, 2017.

ICGA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2

• Yasuhiko Takenaga, Yo Shimada, Strategies for Single-Player PuyoPuyo.
• Thomas Wolf, Seki with 2 Liberties per Chain in the Game of Go. » Go
• Mark Watkins, Losing Chess: 1. e3 Wins for White. » Losing Chess
• Garry Kasparov, Don’t Fear Intelligent Machines: Work with Them. ^[40]
• Jon Diamond, A History of Go-playing Programs.
• Efstratios Grivas, The Modern Endgame Manual.
• Karsten Müller, Tablebases, Fermat, Knights and Knightmares.
• Guy Haworth, Understanding Rook Endgames.
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, Guy Haworth, WCSC 2016: The 6th World Chess Software Championship. » WCSC 2016
• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik, Guy Haworth, WSCC 2016: The World Speed Computer Chess Championship. » WCCC 2016
• Wen-Jie Tseng, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, DarkKnight Wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. » 19th Computer Olympiad 2016
• Lars Sandin, The SSDF Chess Engine Rating List. » SSDF
• Guy Haworth, Chess Endgame News.

History of the Journal

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1977

In 1977 the Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 1 ^[41] and 2 ^[42] were published by Editor Douglas Penrod.

1978

After founding the ICCA during the Second World Computer Chess Championship 1977 in Toronto, the ICCA Newsletter was published three or four times yearly.

Quote by Jaap van den Herik, Editorial of ICGA Journal Vol. 30, No. 1 - March 2007:
In 1978 Ben Mittman and Barend Swets started the ICCA Newsletter. It was specialized on chess. Owing to the series of Advances in Computer Chess Conferences, which in 1999 changed to Advances in Computer Games Conferences, the ICCA Journal broadened its scope, too, and published articles on other games. This can be seen as a generalization. As a direct consequence, the Journal was renamed into ICGA Journal.

1983

From the ACM-83 WCCC 1983 booklet The ICCA:^[43]
Established at the Second World Computer Chess Championship in Toronto 1977, the International Computer Chess Association currently has several hundred members. Ben Mittman serves as President and, until just recently, as Editor of the ICCA Newsletter which is published three or four times yearly. The ICCA Journal will appear in its place shortly with refereed papers. Jaap van den Herik has assumed the Editorship. Monroe Newborn and Ken Thompson serve as Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer, respectively. Dues are $10 (U.S.) for one year membership.
Interested individuals should write to Ken Thompson, Bell Laboratories, Room 2C, 423 Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA.

1984

From the ACM-84 booklet The ICCA:^[44]
Established at the Second World Computer Chess Championship in Toronto 1977, the International Computer Chess Association currently has several hundred members. Monty Newborn serves as President; Jaap van den Herik serves as Editor of the ICCA Journal which is published four times yearly. Johann Enroth and William Blanchard serve as Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer, respectively. Dues are $10 (U.S.) for a one year membership. Interested individuals should write to William Blanchard, 360/253 Blackthorn Lane, Warrenville, Illinois 60555 USA.

1989

From the WCCC 1989 booklet The International Computer Chess Association:^[45]:
Established at the Second World Computer Chess Championship in Toronto 1977, this international association has about five hundred members from all over the world. It is published four times a year. The international Computer Chess Association (ICCA) is an international organization that represents the computer chess world, not only to the computer science community (such as ACM, IEEE, and IFIP), but also to the world chess federation (FIDE). The most visible benefit of membership is the quarterly ICCA Journal. Each issue contains roughly 60 pages outlining the latest in computer chess research, news, tournament results, book reviews, conferences, games, etc.: something for researchers, chess program hobbyists, and chess players.

Cost: $25 per year.
Mail to: Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada TG6 2H1

1995

Same text as 1989, prices and persons changed.
From the WCCC 1995 booklet International Computer Chess Association:^[46]:
Cost: $36 US per year, 24 UK pounds or 60 Dutch florins

Mail to (for UK and N.America) Don Beal, Dept of Computer Science Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK

(Rest of the world) Prof. dr Van den Herik, University of Limburg, Dept of Computer Science P.O.Box 616, 6200 Maastricht The Netherlands

2000

With the first issue of the new millennium, the ICCA Journal was renamed into the ICGA Journal ^[47]:
For many years, the ICCA Journal occasionally included articles on games other than chess. This has included Backgammon, Othello, Chinese Chess, Shogi, Go, and fundamental issues affecting the programming of all such games. To reflect this increasing interest in other games, the Journal changed its name to the ICGA Journal from Vol.23 No.1 (the first issue of 2000).

However, it took further two and a half years, when the organization renamed from ICCA to ICGA as well, for a broader scope to reflect the more general way in which computer-game capability contributes to Artificial Intelligence and to the human experience of game-playing ^[48].

2004

From the current Journal site: ^[49]:
The ICGA Journal appears four times a year. In order to receive the Journals for 2004 you should subscribe as an ICGA member. The (renewal) fee for individual subscribers is US $ 50,-, UK £ 25,- or € 40,-.

2008 From Maastricht to Tilburg

The new home of the ICGA Headquarters, quote from the ICGA Journal Vol. 31, No. 2 - June 2008:

As per September 1, 2008 the ICGA Headquarters are moving from Maastricht, the Netherlands to Tilburg, the Netherlands. After 21 years of services to the Maastricht University your Editor has accepted an offer by the Tilburg University that he could not refuse. Together with his close colleague Professor Eric Postma he moves to Tilburg, where he is given the opportunity to lead a brand-new research centre called Tilburg Centre for Creative Computing (TiCC). The research centre will have five full professors, sufficient research money, and the full support of the Tilburg University authorities. The centre will focus on three domains: vision (led by Eric Postma), language (led by Antal van den Bosch), and (serious) gaming (led by Jaap van den Herik, who also acts as Director of the Centre). Many colleague researchers/collaborators from Maastricht will join the new research group at TiCC. Most notably among them is Johanna Hellemons who will continue her work as Editorial Manager in Tilburg.

The news was a shock for Maastricht, Limburg, and the Netherlands. Every respected daily newspaper reported on the transition by Van den Herik and Postma. Here, the most crispy statement came from the Chairman of the VSNU (Verenigde Samenwerkende Nederlandse Universiteiten; the Union of the Collaborative Dutch Universities), Dr. Sijbold Noorda, who straightforwardly expressed his understanding by stating: “Mobility shows spirit”.

Admittedly, a move from Maastricht to Tilburg implies a farewell to some well-known names. Many of them will not escape the scope of our community, but one name does: Tons van den Bosch. Long-time members of the ICGA (previously ICCA) will remember her from the many activities she performed in the years 1990 up to 1997 (see ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, p. 70). In 2005, she returned at our institute MICC-IKAT and took up some of her responsibilities for the ICGA. It was if she had never left.

In 2007, Tons van den Bosch and Johanna Hellemons were both instrumental to the success of our ICGA President David Levy. During his public defence for the Doctor’s title they were his paranimfs. Soon after this defence Tons became seriously ill. Currently she is in a phase of strengthening her forces, but she is not expected to resume work soon. The ICGA is grateful to her for all the services delivered and for her enthusiasm to help transforming the members of the ICGA into a society of friends who love research in games and game environments, and who love to meet each other once a year at the Computer Olympiad, the Computer and Games Conference, and at the World Computer Chess Championship.

This year, the meeting of friends will be in Beijing, China. It will be soon (September/October 2008) as is announced in the March issue. The subscription figures at this point in time show that the three ICGA events in Beijing are expected to be the most successful ones of all. Over one hundred people are participating. The world of games will have a golden time in Beijing and the ICGA hopes to reap the fruits from these successful events.

Meanwhile the Editorial team has the pleasure to offer you the June issue of the Journal. Three games received a great deal of attention: Go, Jeopardy Stochastic Games, and Chess. Obviously, nowadays there is no Go publication possible without Monte Carlo. The authors adequately go along with this statement. The second article deals with an interesting generalisation of Can’t Stop, namely Jeopardy Stochastic Games. It can be seen as a completely new area of games research. Analogously, the article on chess is actually on ‘chess and measuring its beauty’. It is not on new chess programming techniques. Finally, it is worthwhile to mention that the proceedings of the CG 2008 are currently with Springer-Verlag. They will be delivered in time – we hope – in China for our Conference, where we will see 24 contributors gathering; they will inform us on their latest findings. Therefore, I hope to see many of you soon in China.

2014 From Tilburg to Leiden

Quote from Jaap van den Herik (2013). From Tilburg to Leiden. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4

The ICGA Journal is moving for the fourth time in its existence. This time we move from Tilburg to Leiden.

The reason for the current movement is that your Editor has now taken up a position in the Faculty of Science at Leiden University with the task of helping to establish the Leiden Centre of Data Science. He is pleased to mention that his move is taking place together with Joke Hellemons and Aske Plaat. It means that from January 1, 2014 the ICGA Headquarters are located at LIACS Leiden, the Netherlands. As you all may know Leiden has a rich history and many Noble Prize winners in physics. It is the oldest University city in the Netherlands and also well known for its Faculty of Law. Obviously, we look forward to welcoming our ICGA colleagues in this ancient and beautiful city. Although the ICGA headquarters are moving, the principles and themes of the Journal transcend geography and evolve apace.

The visiting address is: Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Snellius Building, Room 164, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, the Netherlands.

2016 Break

Due to the vacancy of the Editor-in-Chief after Jaap van den Herik's retirement end of 2015 ^[50], the ICGA Journal took a break in 2016. Publication is intended to continue with Volume 39 in 2017 by IOS press, preprints available online for members ^[51]. Editor-in-Chief will be I-Chen Wu - with the proposal of rotation every two years.

ICGA Journal Awards

In 1992, a novel Award was instituted by the ICCA, the ICCA Journal Award. The Award is to be adjudicated annually to a first-time author for the best article in the ICCA/ICGA Journal in the year under consideration.

Year	Award Winner	Article	Published in
1993	Peter Jansen	Peter Jansen (1993). KQKR: Speculatively Thwarting a Human Opponent.	Vol. 16, No. 1
1994	Chrilly Donninger	Chrilly Donninger (1993). Null Move and Deep Search: Selective-Search Heuristics for Obtuse Chess Programs.	Vol. 16, No. 3
1995	Bradley Kuszmaul	Bradley Kuszmaul (1995). The StarTech Massively Parallel Chess Program.	Vol. 18, No. 1	pdf
1996	Michael Buro	Michael Buro (1995). ProbCut: An Effective Selective Extension of the Alpha-Beta Algorithm.	Vol. 18, No. 2	pdf
1997	Mark Brockington	Mark Brockington (1996). A Taxonomy of Parallel Game-Tree Search Algorithms.	Vol. 19, No. 3
1998	Andreas Junghanns	Andreas Junghanns (1998). Are there Practical Alternatives to Alpha-Beta?	Vol. 21, No. 1
1999	Ernst A. Heinz	Ernst Heinz (1998). Efficient Interior-Node Recognition.	Vol. 21, No. 3
2000	Darse Billings	Darse Billings (2000). Thoughts on RoShamBo.	Vol. 23, No. 1
2001	Thomas Thomsen	Thomas Thomsen (2000). Lambda-Search in Game Trees with Application to Go.	Vol. 23, No. 4
2002	Ren Wu	Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms.	Vol. 24, No. 3
2003	David Fotland	David Fotland (2002). Static Eye in "The Many Faces of Go".	Vol. 25, No. 4
2004	Haw-ren Fang	Haw-ren Fang, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Shun-Chin Hsu (2004). Checking Indefinitely in Chinese-Chess Endgames.	Vol. 27, No. 1
2005	Kohei Noshita	Kohei Noshita (2005). Union-Connections and Straightforward Winning Strategies in Hex. + Companion pdf	Vol. 28, No. 1	pdf
2006	Fridel Fainshtein	Fridel Fainshtein, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner (2006). A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems.	Vol. 29, No. 1	pdf
2007	Gian Piero Favini	Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2007). A Program to Play Kriegspiel.	Vol. 30, No. 1
2008	Rémi Coulom	Rémi Coulom (2007). Computing “Elo Ratings” of Move Patterns in the Game of Go.	Vol. 30, No. 4	pdf
2009	Nathan Sturtevant	Nathan Sturtevant (2008). An Analysis of UCT in Multi-Player Games.	Vol. 31, No. 1	pdf
2010	Yoshikuni Sato	Yoshikuni Sato, Daisuke Takahashi, Reijer Grimbergen (2010). A Shogi Program based on Monte-Carlo Tree Search.	Vol. 33, No. 2	pdf
2011	Petr Baudiš	Petr Baudiš (2011). Balancing MCTS by Dynamically Adjusting the Komi Value.	Vol. 34, No. 3
2012	Diogo R. Ferreira	Diogo R. Ferreira (2012). Determining the Strength of Chess Players Based on Actual Play.	Vol. 35, No. 1
2013	Kunihito Hoki	Kunihito Hoki, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Akihiro Kishimoto, Takeshi Ito (2013). Parallel Dovetailing and its Application to Depth-First Proof-Number Search.	Vol. 36, No. 1

See also

• Best-Publication Awards
• Papers
• Recommended Reading

External Links

• The quarterly published ICGA-Journal
• ICGA Journal from Wikipedia
• DBLP - Journal of the International Computer Games Association

References

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2. ^ Photo by Gerd Isenberg
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