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

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/
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>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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