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The main driving force of the General Game
Playing

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community is the Annual International
General Game Playing Competition.

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The competition is typically held in
conjunction with the

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national Conference on Artificial
Intelligence sponsored by the AAAI.

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That's the Association for the Advancement
of Artificial Intelligence.

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Or sometimes it's the biennial IJCAI, and

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that's the International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence.

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The competition is administered by

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Stanford University, so those of you who
are

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at Stanford are not eligible to
participate unfortunately.

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The competition began in 2005, and it's
run

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annually ever since, and with the
exception of 2009.

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And it's been won by players from various
different

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countries, including the US and Germany,
France, and Iceland.

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Here's a photo of Jim Clune, the winner of
the

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first GGB competition being congratulated
by the AAA president, Ron Rockman.

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Jim was obviously pleased in his player
having won, or that smile might

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be due in part to the $10,000 he received
for winning the competition.

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Here we have Michael Thielscher and
Stephan Schiffel

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from Dresden, winners of the competition
at AAAIO6.

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On the left here we have Helmer Vincent
and Ing Ve Burenesen, the winners in 2007

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and 8 and again in 2012.
And they're there together with Michael

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Telsheer and stuff on and Michael Shiffer
and Michael Telsheer, the winners in 2006.

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And there's Jim Clune on the right, the
winner from 2005.

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And finally, here we have Hilmar Finnsson
congratulating

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a beaming Sam Schreiber at the end of
GGP-11.

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the contest is exciting, but even the
spectators get in on the action.

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Without getting into any specifics here,
let me just say that some of

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the people, at the competition have come

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away from those sessions wealthier than
beforehand.

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In addition to the regular GGB competition
there's

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now an annual battle between carbon and
silicon.

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Unfortunately for us, the beams are not
doing that well.

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for example, 2012, Katya player handily
defeated the human race,

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represented here by Chris Welty shown with
some of his advisors.

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Keeping with the format of the

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competition, the contestants play two
different games.

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And the first Katya

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player handily defeated the human in a
well played match of dual Connect Four.

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And it then won a match of Platform
Jumpers.

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Its consolation prize, the human was
awarded two bottles of scotch by the way.

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In part, to ease his disappointment in
letting down the human race.