The ICGA organized in 2002 the 7th Computer Olympiad in Maastricht (Netherlands). If Chess, Go and other programs compete, then why not Backgammon?
Together with Achim Müller of the GnuBG project we thought who could be involved too and so we contacted roughly a dozen programmers. Sadly only BGBlitz and GnuBG went to Maastricht, but the quality of the opponents promised a high level match.
We agreed on a best of five 13-pt match. As expected the level of play was high, BGBlitz got the better dice and finally won the match 3-1. It was exciting until the last moment, the atmosphere was inspiring and the whole Olympiad was an awesome event.
The match in numbers | ||
BGBlitz 1.0.5 | vs. | GNU-Backgammon 0.13 |
13 | - | 9 |
4 | - | 13 |
13 | - | 7 |
13 | - | 6 |
match 1 , match 2 , match 3 , match 4 .