Author: Mark Winands
Date: 01:05:43 05/18/04
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 $300 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. The entry fee for the chess tournament is as follows: Amateur: € 25 Semi-professional: € 250 Professional: € 500 A participant is expected to be ICGA member (€ 40). "Amateur": programmers who have no commercial interest in their program, and are not professional game programmers. Applications for amateur classification must supply information to justify their claim. "Semi-professional": Any program submitted by an employee or associate from a games-programming company. The program's name must not be derived from or similar to a commercial product. "Professional": A program whose name is the same as or derived from a commercial product. Any entry received after June 1, 2004 will be subject to a penalty fee, doubling the above fees. Register at: http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/wccc2004/
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