Computer Olympiad 7th-13th 2018 and the 10th International Conference on Computers and Games (CG2018) from July 9th-11th in Taipeh, Taiwan. The World Computer Chess Championships 2018 took place from July 13th-19th in Stockholm, Sweden. Abalone is strategy game using a hexagonal patterned board with 14 marbles for each of two players. The objective is to push six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board. Amazons is played on a 10x10 chessboard by two players each with four "amazons" (queen chess pieces). Moves are made to block squares and the winner is the last player able to move his pieces
British and World Marbles Championship forbidden - as is any other advantageous movement of a players shooting hand during shooting.These would constitute a foul known as "fudging". Any intentional or persistent contact between a player's clothing and a marble or tolley while it is motion would be a foul called "blocking". No score results from a foul shot. A foul shot ends the turn of the offending player, though the score achieved in that turn stands. Any player who makes three foul shots during a game is eliminated from that game. The first team to knock out 25 marbles from the ring is the winner.