The 2nd Computer Olympiad took place in London

London

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, UK from 15 August 1990 to 21 August 1990. As with each year's 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, 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. Lithidion (University of Limburg) (NL)
2. Marco (R. Nierat)

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. Video Gammon (R. Hoogerhyde)
2. Prospero (R. Mills)

Bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

1. Bridge Baron (T. Throop and T. Guilfoyle)
2. Oxford Bridge (A. Bracher)

Checkers

1. Colossus (M. Bryant
   Martin Bryant (programmer)
   Martin Bryant is a British computer programmer known as the author of Colossus Chess, a 1980s commercial chess-playing program, and Colossus Draughts, gold medal winner at the 2nd Computer Olympiad in 1990.- Computer chess :...
   
   )
2. Chinook
   Chinook (draughts player)
   Chinook is a computer program that plays English draughts , developed around 1989 at the University of Alberta, led by Jonathan Schaeffer. Other developers are Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar. In July 2007, Chinook's developers announced that the program has been improved to...
   
    (J. Schaeffer
   Jonathan Schaeffer
   Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence....
   
   )
3. Checkermate (D. Oldbury and A. Millett)

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. 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...
   
    (R. Lang)
2. 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:...
   
    (E. Schroeder)
3. Zugzwang (P. Mysliwietz and R. Feldman)

Chinese Chess

1. Elephant (S-C. Hsu)
2. Chinese Chess Expert (K-M. Ts'ao)
3. NKS (H.S. Long and S. Zi)

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. Go Intellect (K. Chen)
2. SWISS Explorer (A. Kierulf and M. Müller)
3. Go 4 (M. Reiss)

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. Go Intellect (K. Chen)
2. Go 4 (M. Reiss)
3. Dragon (D-Y. Lin)

Go-Moku

1. Stone System (N. Alexandrov, M. Trukhan and A. Grigoriev)
2. Matena (A. Frolov)
3. Solid (A. Dolinsky) 3. XOXOXO (Lev Ilkov)

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. Dumbo (T. Duykers)
2. Vers2 (B. de Wolf)
3. Microb (M. Claverie)

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...

1. Qubic (A. Grigoriev)
2. Cube (M. Burton)

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 Fan (N. Alexandrov, M. Trukhan and A. Grigoriev)
2. XOXOXO (L. Ilkov)

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. TSP (J. Homan)
2. Crab (G. Jacobson)
3. Tyler (A. Frank)

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