The First European General Game Playing Competition took place at the Faculty of Computer Science of TU-Dresden and Reykjavik University on 16th April 2009. Three student teams of each university participated with their players. Players had to compete in 9 matches of 6 different games. 29 matches were played in total. The player named RiotPlayer developed by a team from Reykjavik University won the competition with a total of 790 points (out of 900 possible points).
Participants
The following teams participated in the competition. (The names link to slides about the respective player.)
- RiotPlayer (Reykjavik University)
- Gylfi Gudmundsson, Ivar Hilmarsson, Freysteinn Alfredsson
- Maximus (Reykjavik University)
- Petur Sigurdssson, Kristjan Birgisson
- IceSAVE (Reykjavik University)
- Pall Thrainsson, Sigurdur Magnusson, Thor Sigurdsson
- Pinky und Brain (TU-Dresden)
- Paul Grunewald, Robert Stelzmann
- Informafiosi (TU-Dresden)
- Norbert Manthey, Norbert Schultz, David Müller
- PlayGrrr (TU-Dresden)
- Martin Schulz, Nguyen Sy Hiep, Nguyen The Duy, Nicolas Jean
Scoreboard
| Team |
Sum |
Scores for single matches |
| Snake |
Knightstour |
Pentago |
Cubicup |
Bidding-TicTacToe |
3D-TicTacToe |
| RiotPlayer |
790 |
100 |
90 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
| Maximus |
686 |
90 |
96 |
0 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
| IceSAVE |
490 |
100 |
90 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
| Pinky und Brain |
345 |
100 |
45 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
0 |
| Informafiosi |
270 |
90 |
80 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
0 |
| PlayGrrr |
262 |
66 |
96 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
0 |
Matches can be viewed at http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ss177134/iceland-ggp-competition-2009/matches/.
Note that scores in this table may not match the scores in the matches below if a player submitted illegal moves or did not send a move in time.
Games
The following games were played.
Snake
- Description
- A single-player game where the goal is to steer a snake through a maze eating frogs on the way.
- Game rules
- games/snake_2009_big.gdl
- Matches
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Knightstour
- Description
- Visit all cells on a chess board with a knight to win.
- Game rules
- games/knightstour.gdl
- Matches
-
- Description
- A two-player game with alternating moves. (Pentago at Wikipedia)
- Game rules
- pentago_2008.gdl
- Matches
-
- Description
- Another two-player game with alternating moves. The goal is to place the last cube on the triangular pyramid. You loose cubes if the opponent forms a "cup" of three of his cubes.
- Game rules
- cubicup.gdl
- Matches
-
Bidding-Tic-Tac-Toe
- Description
- A variant of Tic-Tac-Toe where you bid money to get the right to move.
- Game rules
- bidding-tictactoe.gdl
- Matches
-
3D-TicTacToe
- Description
- A 6 player 3-dimensional version of TicTacToe with two teams of three players.
- Game rules
- tictactoe_3d_small_6player.gdl
- Matches
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