Computer Olympiad 2000
World MicroComputer Chess Championship

Additional rules applicable to the WMCCC

  1. The chess-playing code of the program must execute on a single, generally available, CPU. The Tournament Director has the right to require a computer be opened for confirmation, if necessary.
  2. Participants or their operators are required to attend an organisational meeting at 10am Monday 21 August for the purpose of officially registering for the tournament, and deciding any outstanding issues regarding rules and operational matters.
  3. The tournament will be a 9-round Swiss. Standard pairings will be used. Ties will be scored by sum of opponents scores. If SOS are tied, ties will be further scored by the programs cumulative scores after each round (i.e. score after round 1 plus score after round 2, etc). If there is a tie for a title, the top two (using tie-break scoring) tied programs will play a play-off game. The rate of play for a play-off game will be all moves in one hour, or such other rate as the TD may specify, considering the time available to play the game.
  4. The following titles will be awarded:
  1. Absolute World Microcomputer Champion 2000 - for the overall winner.
  2. Either (if the overall winner is a professional or semi-professional)
    World Microcomputer Amateur Chess Champion 2000 - for the highest placed amateur program
    Or (if the overall winner is an amateur)
    World Microcomputer Professional Chess Champion 2000 - for the highest-placed professional or semi-professional program.
  1. The tournament schedule is provisionally planned to be:

Round 1: 11am-4pm Monday; Round 2: 4pm-9pm Monday

Round 3: 10am-3pm Tuesday; Round 4: 4pm-9pm Tuesday

Round 5: 10am-3pm Wednesday

Round 6: 10am-3pm Thursday; Round 7: 4pm-9pm Thursday

Round 8: 9am-2pm Friday; Round 9: 2pm-7pm Friday

If a playoff game is needed it will be played Friday evening as soon as sufficient games to determine the play-off programs have been completed. Wednesday afternoon is free time to allow participants an opportunity for sight-seeing.

  1. At the end of each game, the participants are required to hand the Tournament Director a game listing (in PGN format) on floppy disk, as well as the paper score sheet.
  2. Operators must be fully conversant with the rules of chess and fully knowledgeable about the program they are operating, to the extent that they can retract an arbitrary sequence of moves and restart the program from some earlier position in the game in the event of operator error or technical problems. They must also be able to reset, or preserve, program parameters as required under the direction of the Tournament Director, after technical problems.
  3. A reminder (this rule already appears the main rule set): all program authors and operators at the site must be ICCA members.

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