[Computer-go] Computer Olympiad 2018 in Taipeh

["Ingo Althöfer"]

Hello,

the Computer Olympiad 2018, organized by the ICGA, takes
place in Taipeh (Taiwan) and has started on July 07.

There is a record number of programs participating.
Here is a list of all registrations:
http://www.tcga.tw/icga-computer-olympiad-2018/en/#tsignup

Interestingly, Go 19x19 has only two participants,
and Go 9x9 only three.

The chess events are decoupled in this year. They take
place in Stockholm (likely starting on this Friday).

Ingo.
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[Ryan Hayward]

Hi Ingo,

many entrants from China could not come to Taiwan because of visa difficulties...

in Hex there ended up being 2 competitor, EzoCNN from Japan by Kei Takada

and MoHexCNN by Chao Gao (UAlberta).  on 11x11 both programs win at least 80% of their games

against last year's champion non-CNN payers.

MCNN had a kind of alphago development this year: it won both 11x11 and 13x13 events

5-0 (best of 8, so rest of games were not nec)

it was wild watching the 11x11 games: MCNN played many sparsely located non-local moves that in the end turned out

to be useful.

details will be the ICGA Olympiad Hex report

--

Ryan B. Hayward

Professor

Department of Computing Science

University of Alberta