SCAN wins Draughts Tournament

Article type: Other

Authors: Bus, Jaap¹

Affiliations: Hamburg, Germany

Note: [1] Email: jaapbus@t-online.de.

Note: [2] A separate MS Word article, distributed to the readers of my Blog, describes the organisation of the Computer Olympiad 2015 held at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. See http://endgamesandmore.blogspot.nl/2015/08/a-very-interesting-game-of-computer.html

Abstract: Many different mind sports programs participated in the 18th Computer Olympiad, held in Leiden, with programmers from all over the world. An extended blog2 gives details about the Draughts Championship that, with 12 participating programs, was the largest tournament of the Computer Olympiad. It gives the names of the programs and the programmers / operators, the gamescores, as well as the final results. The Blog is about the games with a selection made in such a way that all participating programs are involved. The idea is to illustrate to what extent the programs differ in playing strength, from rather low to world championship level. In Table 1 we give the final standings.

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-2015-38407

Journal: ICGA Journal, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 244-246, 2015