pd@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Paul Davison) (11/16/88)
[ I have been asked to post this but have nothing to do with the event, so
please address any enquiries to the address given in the posting. ]
There is to be a Computer Games Olympiad in London in 1989. The details
are as follows:
"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.
The Computer Olympiad is organised by International Chess Master David Levy,
who is President of the International Computer Chess Association.
Anyone wanting more information on the event should send a large stamped
addressed envelope to: Computer Olympiad, 11 Loudoun Road, London NW8 OLP,
England.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1st London Conference on Computer Games will take place as part of the
Computer Olympiad during the period August 9th to 15th 1989. Papers are
invited on any aspect 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.
Papers should preferrably be 3000 to 4000 words in length, and if possible,
should be submitted with an IBM-PC format disk containing the text as a
file for a widely-used word-processor (e.g. Wordstar). The closing date
for submissions is May 9th 1989. Papers should be sent to: Computer
Olympiad, 11 Loudoun Road, London NW8 OLP, England.
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Paul Davison
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