Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 10:37:05 01/03/05
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On January 03, 2005 at 12:43:48, Ulysses Omycron wrote: >On January 03, 2005 at 12:11:58, Ingo Bauer wrote: > >>Hi >> >>>"The timing rules are of the following kind: >>> >>>2 hours for the whole game." >> >>Have a look at the schedule. It is 2 hours each side. >> >>Ingo > >Then it should say "4 hours for the whole game"... That's at least the etime, >isn't it? :) Ok, a bit unclear. Time on the external chess-clock, over the board, manually operated. 2 hours (last time it was 15 minutes less for some reason) per side and game. > >Can someone explain to me what's up with Paderborn? They're Yace Paderborn and >Quark Paderborn, but Yace is not in the event. Paderborn is a nice city in Westfalia, Germany. from http://wwwcs.upb.de/~IPCCC/ Short portrait of Paderborn ---------- Paderborn is one of the main centers in the East of Northrhine-Westphalia with about 130.000 inhabitants. The area of the town is approx. 180 square kms (70 square miles), geographical position: 51' o 43 ' latitude north by 8' o 45 ' longitude east. Height above sea-level 94-347 meters.The name ©Paderborn½ is made up of two words: Pader is the name of the 4-km- long river that rises in the center of the town, and Born is a German word for ©spring½ or ©source½. Over 200 springs in the city center provide the River Pader with its water, it is the shortest in Germany. The recorded history begins in the year 777 AD. The Emperor Charlemagne held the first Imperial Council ©on Saxon soil½ here in Paderborn. It then followed a long and diversified history for Paderborn. Different sovereigns (Franconian, Prussian), war conflicts, religious changes (Reformation, Counter-Reformation) influenced the development of Paderborn. From the first Westphalian University founded in 1614 nothing remained when in 1972 the former Teacher Training and Technical Colleges of Paderborn, HÖxter, Meschede and Soest became the new Paderborn University with its over 17.000 students. A well-known focus in research and education lies on computer sciences from Theory to Practice. A strong scientific community with several interdisciplin ry institutes has been founded in the last years. During the last 30 years, Paderborn has become one of the leading German centers for Computer Technology. This development is closely connected with the name of Heinz Nixdorf. ------ Paderborn has some great computer chess history encouraged by the local University, specially the cs department by Professor B. Monien, Rainer Feldmann and Peter Mysliwietz as authors of the famous massive parallel program Zugzwang and next generation former student and professor now, Mr. Parallel Controlled Conspiracy Number Search, Ulf Lorenz as co-author of ULYSSES, Author of P.ConNerS as well as current member of the Hydra-team. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/ah/2002/lorenz/disserta.pdf The first IPCCC was held in 91. 13th WMCCC Oct. 1995. 9th World Computer Chess Championship 1999 You may find a history under http://www.computerschaak.nl/ ->Toernooien (left) ->Historie van Computer-Computer toernooien ->International Paderborn Computer Chess Ch. (IPCCC) History (since 1991) Authors sometimes call their original tournament versions with an additional surname - the name of the venue. IPCCC is a bit "elitist" a pure programmers tournament. Social event and programmers meeting too - very important. Only in very rare cases operators are accepted. Therefore some fluctuations from year to year is quite normal. I'll hope for an even number. Cheers, Gerd <snip>
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