Links

Useful LOA links

Dave Dyer' pages The ultimate LOA site. Much information about LOA (rules, history, variants, programs, how to program, LOA puzzles, tournaments). You can also play against Dyer's program.
Hartmut Thordsen's pages This webpage describes not only the rules, the quality of some LOA programs are discussed. In German.

Darse Billings (University of Alberta) pages Information about the strong LOA programs YL and Mona. You can also play against these programs. You can also find many post-mortem analysis of games they have played against great human LOA players and, of course, MIA.
Benjamin Guihaire pages At this webpage you can download LOA3D, a LOA playing program with nice user interface.
Unite Shareware LOA program for the Mac written by Kevin Gong.
Loa Programmers This group is for discussions related to programs to play LOA.

Abacus LOA: Das Geheimnis der Linien Here you can order the LOA board game! Only for the LOA diehards. The equipment is a little bit different than the ordinary checkers equipment. In German.

17^th Computer Olympiad: A computer LOA tournament was played at this event (August 12 - August 18, 2013, Yokohama, Japan).
14^th Computer Olympiad: A computer LOA tournament was played at this event (May 11 - May 17, 2009, Pamplona, Spain).
11^th Computer Olympiad: A computer LOA tournament was played at this event (May 24 - June 1, 2006, Turin, Italy).
9^th Computer Olympiad: A computer LOA tournament was played at this event (July 4-12, 2004, Ramat-Gan, Israel).
8^th Computer Olympiad: A computer LOA tournament was played at this event (November 23-27, 2003, Graz, Austria).
7^th Computer Olympiad: The LOA computer tournament was played at this event (July 5-11, 2002, Maastricht, The Netherlands).
6^th CMG Computer Olympiad: The LOA computer tournament was played at this event (August 18-23, 2001, Maastricht, The Netherlands).
5^th Computer Olympiad: The LOA computer tournament was played at this event (August 21-25, 2000, London, UK).

Mind Sports Olympiad This organisation organises each year the Human World Championship LOA.
This organisation tries to organise each year a LOA computer tournament at the Computer Olympiad.