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ICGA logo The ICGA, the International Computer Games Association, was founded as the ICCA in 1977 by computer chess programmers to organize championship events for computer programs and to facilitate the sharing of technical knowledge via the ICGA Journal.

The Aims of the ICGA are

The Board of the ICGA

ICCA / ICGA Presidents

| President | Org. | from | until | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Ben Mittman | ICCA | 1977 | 1983 | | Monroe Newborn | | 1983 | 1986 | | David Levy | | 1986 | 1992 | | Tony Marsland | | 1992 | 1999 | | David Levy | ICCA | 1999 | 2002 | | David Levy | ICGA | 2002 | 2019 | | Jonathan Schaeffer | | 2019 | |

ICGA Events

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Tournament Rules

Investigations

ICGA Topics

History and Purpose of the ICGA

Renamed into the ICGA in 2002 [4] , the association now more broadly fosters the Computer Games community through its relationships with Computer Science, Commercial and Game organizations throughout the world. The **ICGA'**s broader scope reflects the more general way in which computer-game capability contributes to Artificial Intelligence and to the human experience of game-playing.

Quotes

Robert Hyatt

Robert Hyatt, 1997 in a rgcc post [5] :

I was there when [Barend Swets](Barend_Swets "Barend Swets") (Believe the spelling is correct) proposed forming this organization in [1977](WCCC_1977 "WCCC 1977") in Toronto. I was one of many that stood up and said "yes, I'll join." However, others stood up and said I'll not only join, I'll help for nothing, and the [ICCA](ICCA "ICCA") was formed, and continues to work this way.

Jaap van den Herik

Jaap van den Herik in 2001 in The Bell Captain [6] :

In 1977, the ICCA was founded during the [Second World Computer-Chess Championship in Toronto](WCCC_1977 "WCCC 1977"). The organisation was the brainchild of [Barend Swets](Barend_Swets "Barend Swets") and many participants supported the idea, among them [Ken Thompson](Ken_Thompson "Ken Thompson") who then tied for 4th place amongst 16 participants with his program [BELLE](Belle "Belle"). [CHESS 4.6](Chess_(Program) "Chess (Program)") won the title but Ken received credit for BELLE's KQKR endgame play against [IGM Walter Browne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Browne) (Fenner, 1979) <a id="cite-note-7" href="#cite-ref-7">[7]</a> <a id="cite-note-8" href="#cite-ref-8">[8]</a> . Further, Ken agreed to serve as Secretary and Treasurer of the new organisation alongside [Ben Mittman](Ben_Mittman "Ben Mittman"), the first ICCA President, and did so successfully and with much enthusiasm for six years.

Best-Publication Awards

Mephisto Best-Publication Award

Winners of the Mephisto Best-Publication Award by Hegener & Glaser, 1988-1992:

Novag Best-Publication Award

Winners of the Novag Best-Publication Award, 1992-1996:

ChessBase Best-Publication Award

Winners of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award 1999-2010:

Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (2005). Solving Checkers. IJCAI 2005, pdf

Best-Publication Award

Winners of the Best-Publication Award 2011 ...

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 | |

Forum Posts

External Links

References

  1. ↑ ICGA Reference Database
  2. ↑ A NEW PRESIDENT - Announcement by David Levy by Mark Lefler, December 11, 2018
  3. ↑ ICGA Tournament Database
  4. ↑ ICCA BECOMES ICGA by David Levy, President of the ICGA, ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 - September 2002
  5. ↑ Does ICCA publish dissenting views?, post #18 by Robert Hyatt, January 22, 1997, rgcc
  6. ↑ Jaap van den Herik (2001). The Bell Captain. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2
  7. ↑ Walter Shawn Browne vs Belle (Computer) - Queen vs Rook exhibition 1978 from chessgames.com
  8. ↑ QUEEN vs. ROOK by Warren Stenberg and Edware J. Conway, reprinted from the January, 1979 issue of the Minnesota Chess Journal, The Usenet Oldnews Archive, Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman » ACM 1978, Belle, Endgame Tablebases, Walter Browne
  9. ↑ Yokohama 2013 (ICGA Tournaments)
  10. ↑ ICGA Facebook page by Harvey Williamson, CCC, July 06, 2017

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