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All ICGA events in 2019 will be held in Macau, together with the IJCAI 2019. The dates for the event are 10-16 August 2019. More information will follow, but for information on the IJCAI you can have a look at https://ijcai19.org.
David Levy reports: At the ICGA’s tri-ennial meeting, held in Stockholm and Taiwan in July 2018, the rather outdated Articles and By-Laws were replaced with a set which better reflects the current form of the ICGA. The new Articles and By-Laws are presented below.
There was no need for any elections of office bearers since only one nomination had been received by the ICGA for each position. For the period 2018-2021 the ICGA’s office bearers are:
President: David Levy
Vice-Presidents: Mark Winands and I-Chen Wu
Secretary-Treasurer: Hiroyuki Iida
Programmers’ Representative: Mark Lefler
You will find the tri-ennial meeting revised ICGA Constitution and By-Laws here: https://icga.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-Constitution-and-By-Laws.pdf
Komodo completed the triple this year by also winning the World Computer Chess Championship 2018 after a play-off with GridGinkgo. GridGinkgo became second after it lost the play-off with 1½-½. Because Jonny won from Leela Chess Zero, it became third.
The photo shows the Komodo team, Mark Lefler (c) and Erdogan Gunes (l) who received the Shannon Trophy (and replica) from the chairman of the ICGA David Levy.
The play-off between GridGinkgo and Komodo has started. They play first a match of two games with 30 minutes plus 15 seconds per moves. If that is equal, there will be a match with 15 minutes. If still no decision, there will be a match of 5 minutes plus 5 seconds per move. Worst case there is an armageddon game with 6 minutes for white and 3 minutes for black with 5 seconds per move.
See http://view.livechesscloud.com/7c104c94-c119-441e-a444-b0f22a1880d0 for the live games.
The seventh and last round has started. Everybody is in the playing hall.
All information can be found on https://icga.org/?page_id=2469.
Live page: http://view.livechesscloud.com/7c104c94-c119-441e-a444-b0f22a1880d0. Live PGN files at http://www.icga.org/live/games/pgn.
Photos from the event in Stockholm: Photos
The fifth round has started. Everybody is in the playing hall.
All information can be found on https://icga.org/?page_id=2469.
Live page: http://view.livechesscloud.com/7c104c94-c119-441e-a444-b0f22a1880d0. Live PGN files at http://www.icga.org/live/games/pgn.
Photos from the event in Stockholm: Photos
Round 3 has started. Unfortunately Leela Chess Zero will not be playing at this moment, due to unforeseen problems. They are looking for another operator to finish the tournament. If anybody is available to operate, please contact both the Leela team and the ICGA organisation (webmaster@icga.org).
There is an operator for Leela Chess Zero. We will start the game as quick as possible. Therefore the next round will start at 15:00 instead of 14:00.
The latest versions of the PGN files of all played games of the Speed Chess and the WCSC are now updated:
The files are zipped pgn files.
Live games (new link!): http://view.livechesscloud.com/7c104c94-c119-441e-a444-b0f22a1880d0. Click on the top to select round and game. Live pgn files: http://www.icga.org/live/round-1/games.pgn. Change the round number for the following rounds.
WCCC page: https://icga.org/?page_id=2469
Information will be added during the first round, which starts at 09:00.
