ICGA Journal Awards - Chess Programming Wiki

In 1992, a novel Award was instituted by the ICCA, the ICCA Journal Award. The Award is to be adjudicated annually to a first-time author for the best article in the ICCA/ICGA Journal in the year under consideration.

Year	Award Winner	Article	Published in
1993	Peter Jansen	Peter Jansen (1993). KQKR: Speculatively Thwarting a Human Opponent.	Vol. 16, No. 1
1994	Chrilly Donninger	Chrilly Donninger (1993). Null Move and Deep Search: Selective-Search Heuristics for Obtuse Chess Programs.	Vol. 16, No. 3
1995	Bradley Kuszmaul	Bradley Kuszmaul (1995). The StarTech Massively Parallel Chess Program.	Vol. 18, No. 1
1996	Michael Buro	Michael Buro (1995). ProbCut: An Effective Selective Extension of the Alpha-Beta Algorithm.	Vol. 18, No. 2
1997	Mark Brockington	Mark Brockington (1996). A Taxonomy of Parallel Game-Tree Search Algorithms.	Vol. 19, No. 3
1998	Andreas Junghanns	Andreas Junghanns (1998). Are there Practical Alternatives to Alpha-Beta?	Vol. 21, No. 1
1999	Ernst A. Heinz	Ernst Heinz (1998). Efficient Interior-Node Recognition.	Vol. 21, No. 3
2000	Darse Billings	Darse Billings (2000). Thoughts on RoShamBo.	Vol. 23, No. 1
2001	Thomas Thomsen	Thomas Thomsen (2000). Lambda-Search in Game Trees with Application to Go.	Vol. 23, No. 4
2002	Ren Wu	Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms.	Vol. 24, No. 3
2003	David Fotland	David Fotland (2002). Static Eye in "The Many Faces of Go".	Vol. 25, No. 4
2004	Haw-ren Fang	Haw-ren Fang, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Shun-Chin Hsu (2004). Checking Indefinitely in Chinese-Chess Endgames.	Vol. 27, No. 1
2005	Kohei Noshita	Kohei Noshita (2005). Union-Connections and Straightforward Winning Strategies in Hex. + Companion pdf	Vol. 28, No. 1
2006	Fridel Fainshtein	Fridel Fainshtein, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner (2006). A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems.	Vol. 29, No. 1
2007	Gian Piero Favini	Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2007). A Program to Play Kriegspiel.	Vol. 30, No. 1
2008	Rémi Coulom	Rémi Coulom (2007). Computing “Elo Ratings” of Move Patterns in the Game of Go.	Vol. 30, No. 4
2009	Nathan Sturtevant	Nathan Sturtevant (2008). An Analysis of UCT in Multi-Player Games.	Vol. 31, No. 1
2010	Yoshikuni Sato	Yoshikuni Sato, Daisuke Takahashi, Reijer Grimbergen (2010). A Shogi Program based on Monte-Carlo Tree Search.	Vol. 33, No. 2
2011	Petr Baudiš	Petr Baudiš (2011). Balancing MCTS by Dynamically Adjusting the Komi Value.	Vol. 34, No. 3
2012	Diogo R. Ferreira	Diogo R. Ferreira (2012). Determining the Strength of Chess Players Based on Actual Play.	Vol. 35, No. 1
2013	Kunihito Hoki	Kunihito Hoki, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Akihiro Kishimoto, Takeshi Ito (2013). Parallel Dovetailing and its Application to Depth-First Proof-Number Search.	Vol. 36, No. 1