Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 07:12:21 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 09:30:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 18, 2004 at 09:20:37, Mark Winands wrote: > >This is very cool! > >ALL REGISTER !!!!!!! The money would be better spent making the event attendable remotely instead of forcing people to spend $2000-$3000 on travel and burning two weeks of paid (or unpaid) leave. > >Hyatt's operator perhaps can even get this? Then i bet a long list of Israeli's >volunteers to operate for him. > >If he has the *guts* to join anyway. > >>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.
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