Hex, Havannah: Computer Olympiad 2010

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Computer Olympiad 2010 2009-10-05 Ingo Althofer Hi, the date for the Computer Olympiad 2010 has been made public: September 24 - October 2, 2010 in Kanazawa, Japan Some more information at http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/attachments/20091005/bdd1dff5/AnnouncementICGAEvents2010.eml I hope that a competition in Havannah may be included. (Maybe even two divisions would make sense: one with smaller and the other with larger boards.) Cheers, Ingo. 2009-10-05 christian freeling Thanks Ingo, I'll announce it on the mindsports homepage, going from the premiss that havannah will be included :) 2009-10-06 Richard Lorentz I'm sure there will be no problem including an Havannah competition. We had one last year with just two competitors. In the past if at least two people enter a program they will organize and schedule a competition. The question as to how many divisions is probably best left to the competitors. We can communicate with the organizers our wishes once we have some sort of consensus. The trick is finding out who else is planning to compete. I assume the Teytaud cousins will enter Shakti again. I know Johan de Koning was considering entering the fray. I bet there are others. Personally, since I will also be competing in Amazons and possibly even Dots & Boxes too, one Havannah division would greatly simplify my life. The way we did it last year was to play the same number of base 5 and base 8 games and wins counted the same regardless of the board size. Maybe a bit strange, but not unreasonable an approach in my mind. 2009-10-07 Philip I would also like to encourage new Hex competitors to appear. Right now it is likely we will have two programs from the University of Alberta (one is monte-carlo/UCT based, the other is alpha-beta + circuit evaluation), Six by Gabor Melis (H-search + circuit evaluation), and Yopt by Tristan Cazenave and Abdallah Saffidine (monte-carlo/UCT). There's a year left, and Six is open source, so if you're interested you can get started now :) 2009-10-13 javerberg Tempting. :)

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