The 1st Computer Olympiad took place at the Park Lane Hotel in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, UK from 9 August 1989 to 15 August 1989. In this Computer Olympiad

Computer Olympiad

The Computer Olympiads are a multi-games event taking place every year in which computer programs compete against each other. The majority of the games are board games but other games such as Bridge take place as well...

, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, Backgammon

Backgammon

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...

, Bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

, Checkers, Chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

, Chinese Chess, Connect-Four, Dominoes

Dominoes

Dominoes generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up a domino set or to the subcategory of tile games played with domino pieces. In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes, the word domino often refers to any rectangle formed from joining two congruent squares edge to edge...

, Draughts

Draughts

Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...

  Go

Go (board game)

Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...

, Go-Moku, Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

, Qubic

Qubic

Qubic is the brand name of a four-in-a-row game played in a 4×4×4 matrix sold by Parker Brothers starting in 1953. The original box, and the 1972 reissue, described the game as "Parker Brothers 3D Tic Tac Toe Game." Players take turn placing pieces to get four in a row horizontally or...

, Renju

Renju

Renju is the professional variant of Gomoku, a board game originated from Japan in Heian Period. It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou . It is played with black and white stones on a 15x15 intersection Go board...

 and Scrabble

Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...

.

Medals Awarded

Awari

1. Marco (R. Nierat)
2. Wali (E. van der Schilden)
3. Conchus (S. Thomas)

Backgammon

Backgammon

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...

1. Neurogammon
   Neurogammon
   Neurogammon is a computer backgammon program written by Gerald Tesauro at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. It was the first viable computer backgammon program implemented as a neural net, and set a new standard in computer backgammon play. It won the 1st Computer Olympiad in London in 1989,...
   
    (G. Tesauro)
2. Video Gammon (R. Hoogerhyde)
3. Saitek Backgammon (Treesoft)

Bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

1. Acolmaster Bridge (Paul Jones)
2. Vtech (Tony Guilfoyle)
3. Oxford Bridge 3 (Andrew Bracher)

Checkers

1. Chinook (J. Schaeffer)
2. Checkers! (G. Dodgen)
3. Tournament Checkers (D. Butler)

Chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

1. Rebel
   REBEL (chess)
   REBEL was a world champion chess program developed by Ed Schröder. Development of REBEL started in 1980 on a TRS-80, and it was ported many times to dedicated hardware and the fastest microprocessors of the day:...
   
    (Ed Schroeder)
2. Mephisto
   Mephisto (chess computer)
   Mephisto was a line of chess computers sold by Hegener & Glaser '. In addition to integrated travel and sensory computers, they also sold a line of modular electronic autosensory boards which could accept different program, processor, and display modules.Its strongest software was written by...
   
    (Richard Lang)
3. Fidelity (Kathe and Dan Spracklen)

Chinese Chess

1. Acer Chinese Chess (Y. Shi-Shun)
2. Chinese chess Expert Acme (K-M. Ts'ao)
3. Elephant (S-C. Hsu)

Connect-Four

1. Victor (V. Allis)
2. Heap (M. Taylor)
3. Four Blitz (H. van der Zijden)

Dominoes

Dominoes

Dominoes generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up a domino set or to the subcategory of tile games played with domino pieces. In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes, the word domino often refers to any rectangle formed from joining two congruent squares edge to edge...

1. LUciano (D. Borrajo)
2. Seneca (M. Alicia Perez)
3. Rio de la Plata (E. Gramajo)

Draughts

Draughts

Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...

1. Dios '89 (E. van Riet Paap)
2. Truus (S. Keetman)
3. McDammen (R.P.G. van Bemmelen)

Go

Go (board game)

Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...

 19×19

1. SWISS Explorer (A. Kierulf)
2. Goliath (M. Boon)
3. Star of Poland (J. Kraszek)

Go

Go (board game)

Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...

 9×9

1. Dragon (D-Y. Lin)
2. Go Intellect (K. Chen)
3. Goliath (M. Boon)

Go-Moku

1. Matena (A. Frolov)
2. Homoku Sapiens (N. Alexandrov)
3. Domino (M. Muron and J. Novotny)

Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

1. Polygon (A. Selby)
2. Comp'oth (F. Aguillon)
3. Badia (M. van Tien)

Renju

Renju

Renju is the professional variant of Gomoku, a board game originated from Japan in Heian Period. It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou . It is played with black and white stones on a 15x15 intersection Go board...

1. Renju Sapiens (A. Grigoriev) 1. Tandy Renju (R. Lang)

Both programs were awarded the gold medal

Scrabble

Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...

1. Crab (A. Appel, G. Jacobson, G. Thomas and S. Thomas)
2. Tyler (A. Frank)
3. Quetzal (T. Guilfoyle and R. Hooker)

External links

• Results page