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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