DARKKNIGHT WINS CHINESE DARK CHESS TOURNAMENT

摘要

The 17th Computer Olympiad took place from August 12 to 18 in Yokohama, Japan. Nine teams from Taiwan and one from France joined the Chinese dark chess tournament. Table 1 lists the participants. In the 2013 tournament, the double round-robin rule was adopted. That is, each program played nine rounds with all other programs. Each round contained two games where each of the two programs played the first move once. The time constraint was that each program had to complete all of its moves within 15 minutes. A game was judged as a draw, if there were no pieces captured or revealed within 180 plies, or if the same position repeated three times, known as the threefold repetition rule.