Author: Ingo Bauer
Date: 10:48:22 01/03/05
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On January 03, 2005 at 13:37:05, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >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. It is not a WC but I once heard it someone calling the tourney: "The Wimbledon of computerchess" ;-) Bye and hopefully cu Ingo
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