19th World Computer-Bridge Championship

19th World Computer-Bridge Championship

Success in Spades: Using AI Planning Techniques to Win the World Championship of Computer Bridge

The latest world-championship competition for computer bridge programs was the Baron Barclay World Bridge Computer Challenge, hosted in July 1997 by the American Contract Bridge League. As reported in The New York Times and The Washington Post, the competition’s winner was a new version of Great Game Products’ Bridge Baron program. This version, Bridge Baron 8, has since gone on the market; and...

WCCC 2017: The 23rd World Computer Chess Championship

The 22nd World Computer Chess Championship started on June 27, 2016. Six programs participated in a double round robin tournament, see Table 1 (CPW 2016a-u; Krabbenbos et al., 2016). The tournament took place at Leiden University and was organized by the ICGA, LIACS and LCDS. It was sponsored by Google, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the municipality of Leiden, Leiden University, its Faculty of...

World-championship-caliber Scrabble

Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that exceeds that of the strongest human players. MAVEN was the first program to demonstrate this against human opposition. Scrabble is a game of imperfect information with a large branching factor. The techniques successfully applied in two-player games such as chess do not work here. MAVEN combines a selective move generator, sim...

Identifying Keys to Win in the World Karate Championship

Background. Studies in this domain help focus on the techniques with high application to improve the point attainment, without providing points for the other opponents. Objectives. The purpose of this study was to analyze and investigate the most common scoring techniques used and the highest intensity competition times that have been fulfilled by the champions of the World Karate Leagues 2019...