Editing Computer Olympiad (section)

== History ==
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!rowspan=2|Olympiad||rowspan=2|Year||rowspan=2|City, country||rowspan=2|Venue||rowspan=2|Sponsor(s)||colspan=2|Participation
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!Countries||Programs
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|1||align=left|1989 (August 9–15)||London, England||Park Lane Hotel||||||84
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|2||align=left|1990 (August 15–21)||London, England||||||||
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|3||align=left|1991 (August 22–25)||Maastricht, Netherlands||Maastricht University||||||
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|4||align=left|1992 (August 5–11)||London, England||Park Lane Hotel||AST||||
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|5||align=left|2000 (August 21–25)||London, England||Alexandra Palace||||||
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|6||align=left|2001 (August 18–23)||Maastricht, Netherlands||Maastricht University||CMG||||
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|7||align=left|2002 (July 5–11)||Maastricht, Netherlands||Maastricht University||||||
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|8||align=left|2003 (November 23–27)||[[Graz]], Austria||Dom im Berg and Casineum||||||
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|9||align=left|2004 (July 3–12)||[[Ramat Gan]], Israel||Bar-Ilan University||{{show|&nbsp;|{{ubl|Aladdin, ChessBase, Golan Heights Winery|IBM Israel, Intel Israel, Israeli Chess Federation|Israel Ministry of Tourism, Mercury, Pitango|PowerDsine, Rimonim Hotels, City of Ramat-Gan}}}}||||
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|10||align=left|2005||[[Taipei]], Taiwan||||||||
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|11||align=left|2006||[[Turin]], Italy||||||||
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|12||align=left|2007||[[Amsterdam]], Netherlands||||||||
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|13||align=left|2008||[[Beijing]], China||||||||
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|14||align=left|2009||[[Pamplona]], Spain||||||||
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|15||align=left|2010||[[Kanazawa]], Japan||||||||
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|16||align=left|2011||[[Tilburg]], Netherlands||||||||
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|17||align=left|2013||[[Yokohama]], Japan||||||||
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|18||align=left|2015||[[Leiden]], Netherlands||||||||
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Developed in the 1980s by [[David Levy (chess)|David Levy]], the first Computer Olympiad took place in 1989 at the [[Park Lane Hotel]] in [[London]]. The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser. This resulted in the games being suspended until 2000 when the [[Mind Sports Olympiad]] resurrected them. Recently, the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has adopted the Computer Olympiad and tries to organise the event on an annual basis.

In the year 2024, parody website [https://www.mike-row-soft.com Mike Row Soft] added an image of the [[Olympics]] with various [[Linux]] distros displayed inside the circles, and color-matched.
[[File:ComputerOlympiad.jpg|thumb]]