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From: don@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Don Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.games.chess,rec.games.go
Subject: Computer Games Olympiad
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Date: 15 Jun 89 09:52:36 GMT
Reply-To: don@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Don Beal)
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Here are some up-to-date details of the Computer Games Olympiad to be held
in London this August.

The world's first Olympiad for computer programs will take place at the
Park Lane Hotel, London, from August 9th to 15th 1989.  This unique event
will feature tournaments for chess, bridge, backgammon, draughts, poker,
Go, and many other classic "thinking" games.  In every tournament all of
the competitors will be computer programs.  The role of the human operators
will merely be to tell their own programs what moves have been made by
their opponents.  Over 115 enquries from prospective entrants were
received, and between 80 and 100 programs are expected to take part.

The 1st London Conference on Computer Games will take place as part of the
Computer Olympiad.  There will
be about 15 papers on various aspects of programming computers to play
"thinking" games such as chess, bridge, Go, backgammon, etc.
The conference Chair will be Professor Tony Marsland, from the Computing
Science Department at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.  The
editor of the conference proceedings will be Don Beal, from the Computer
Science Department at Queen Mary College, London University.

The Computer Olympiad is organised by International Chess Master David Levy,
who is President of the International Computer Chess Association.

Competitors and conference participants will be coming from over 15
countries.  Hotel bookings are available ranging from 5-star hotel to
youth hostel.  Anyone wanting more information on attending the event
should contact:

Computer Olympiad, 11 Loudoun Road, London NW8 OLP, England.
Tel: +44 1 624 5551
Fax: +44 1 372 3266