Amsterdam 2007

From 2007-06-11 to 2007-06-18, Science Park Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.

The 15th World Computer-Chess Championship and the 12th Computer
Olympiad will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in conjunction
with the Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007).

IBM, SARA Computing and Networking Services and NCF (Foundation of
National Computing Facilities) are enabling the organization of the
Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007) (15-17 June 2007), the 15th
World Computer-Chess Championship (WCCC) (11-18 June) and the 12th
Computer Olympiad (CO) (11-18 June) to be held in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Location: CGW2007 (The Turing hall - Z011), WCCC
(Eulerzaal – Z009) and Computer Olympiad (Newtonzaal – Z010) , Science
Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam.

The start of the event will be in conjunction with the official
inauguration of the new Dutch National Supercomputer, which will take
place on June 13. The mayor of Amsterdam, Dr. Job Cohen, will attend
the starting meeting.

Below we mention 28 different games for which a program can be
submitted to the Olympiad.

Abalone
Amazons
Arimaa
Backgammon
Bao
Bridge
Chinese Chess
8x8 Checkers
Clobber
Computational Pool
Connect6
Diplomacy
Dominoes
Dots and Boxes
10x10 Draughts
Gipf
Go
9x9 Go
Hex
Kriegspiel
Lines of Action
6x7 OCTI
9x9 OCTI
Othello
Poker
Renju
Scrabble
Shogi

The game of Renju, claimed to be solved, is still welcome since we
have not seen a fully-operational program on internet that plays
perfectly. Moreover, we are willing to host more games, such as Ataxx,
Dvonn, Mediocrity, Onyx, Tamsk, TwixT and Zèrtz but we do not know of
the existence of adequately playing programs. We are awaiting
suggestions and proposals of programmers before we include them in the
official list given above.

For each game a tournament will take place provided that at least two
programs enter the tournament for that particular game. Gold, Silver
and Bronze medals will be awarded to the leading programs in each
tournament.

The Tournament Director of the WCCC and Computer Olympiad will be:
H.J. van den Herik.

The rules of the WCCC and Computer Olympiad will be soon published.

The entry fees for the WCCC are as follows:

Amateur: € 25
Semi-professional: € 250
Professional: € 500

The entry fees for the other tournaments are as follows:

Amateur: € 25
Semi-professional: € 100
Professional: € 250

A participant is expected to be ICGA member (€ 40).

Deadline early registration: May 21, 2007. Registration after May 21,
2007 will double the entry fee.

"Amateur": programmers who have no commercial interest in their
program, and are not professional game programmers. Applications for
amateur classification must supply information to justify their claim.

"Semi-professional": Any program submitted by an employee or associate
from a games-programming company. The program's name must not be
derived from or similar to a commercial product.

"Professional": A program whose name is the same as or derived from a
commercial product.

http://amsterdam2007.icga.org/