Welcome to CodeCup!

We offer you a challenging programming contest. Anybody can participate; there are no age restrictions or other special requirements. The CodeCup never charges entry fees.

In 2012 the game for the contest is Quantum tic-tac-toe. We have placed a description of the rules online. You can always watch a sample game being played.

Competition

After you login in to the CodeCup system you can submit your program. You can find the submission section under "My submissions". Your submission will be tested automatically against our sample players to ensure that it follows the rules. After passing this check your program is ready to compete! Note that your program must be capable of playing both as black and white.

We will hold test competitions every three weeks starting at the end of September. In these competitions you will see how your program performs against other players. You can follow the complete games and use this information to improve your strategy.

The official Quantum tic-tac-toe competition has been played on January 21st 2012.You can go directly to the final ranking of the programs.

Testing at home - Caia

The CodeCup Team enables you to test your program at home. Our testing software is free and enables you to organize competitions at home without involvement of other people. The software to play at home is called Caia. It works in the same way as our contest software. By hosting your own local competition you can test and improve your program in a fast and easy way. Download Caia and start today!

News

Unfortunately two players made in the final illegal moves like "HH" (in total four times). Our checker didn't see them. We are correcting the corresponding scores of the final by hand. We disregard the mistakes made in the earlier competitions. Summary of the mistakes: Game 66343: 0-22 (a fail for vanush grigoryan, not for Joost Houben). Game 66353: 23-0 (a fail for Edgar Harutyunyan, not for Hovik Khasikyan). Game 66481: 22-0 (a fail for vanush grigoryan). Game 66535: 26-0 (a fail for vanush grigoryan, not for Tomek Czajka).

The final of the 10th CodeCup is played. Congratulations to Tomek Czajka with his fourth win in de CodeCup! We expect to publish the game of the next competition in the spring or in the summer.