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Subject: Re: The ICGA will provide $500 in financial assistance for WCCC 2004

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 07:40:05 05/18/04

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On May 18, 2004 at 09:20:37, Mark Winands wrote:

>The ICGA will provide $500 in financial assistance to 12 amateur Chess
>programmers to assist them with the cost of their air tickets.
>
>Early Registration Deadline Extension: June 1, 2004
>
>Register at:
>http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/wccc2004/
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>12th World Computer Chess Championship
>Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
>July 4th-12th 2004
>
>The ICGA is delighted to announce that today we have signed a contract with
>Bar-Ilan University, Israel, for them to host the 2004 World Computer Chess
>Championship.
>
>The planning of this event has been in progress for some time and every effort
>is being made to ensure that the participants will enjoy their visit to Israel.
>The ICGA will provide $500 in financial assistance to 12 amateur Chess
>programmers to assist them with the cost of their air tickets.
>
>An excursion to Jerusalem will be arranged by the ICGA during the event. There
>will also be ample opportunity for participants to enjoy themselves during the
>evenings as the games will start earlier than at previous events.
>
>In parallel with the World Computer Chess Championship the ICGA will be
>organising the 9th Computer Olympiad and the 4th International Conference, CG
>2004 on Computers and Games, both of which will also take place at Bar-Ilan
>University.
>
>The event will be supported, amongst others, by the City of Ramat-Gan, Intel
>Israel, Israel's Ministry of Tourism, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Mercury
>Interactive, IBM Israel and Pitango.
>
>The format for the 12th World Computer Chess Championship WCCC2004 will be:
>11-round Swiss. The Tournament Director of the WCCC will be Professor Jaap van
>den Herik from the Computer Science Department of the Universiteit Maastricht.
>The deadline for early registration of the WCCC2004 is June 1, 2004.

It's just a little too late for plane tickets.  Dulles-Tel Aviv is 1400$ right
now according to Travelocity.

anthony



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