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Schedule and current scores for the WCCC, WCSC, and Computer Olympiad 2010, Japan

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WCCC, WCSC, and Computer Olympiad special announcement

October 2nd, 2010
10:30 ~ 12:00
Special Lecture:
"Can a computer defeat a grand master?"
Speaker: Nobuyuki Ohuchi

13:00 ~ 15:00
Man VS Machine
Rina Fujisawa (First Dan, age 11) VS the computer GO champion
Commentary by: Haruhiko Shirae, 8 Dan

WCCC, WCSC, and Computer Olympiad announcements

Dear ICGA member, dear Chess programmer,

In the following files you will find:

- General rules WCCC
- Rules for the 18th WCCC
- General rules World Chess Software Championship
- Rules 2010 World Chess Software Championship
- Prize money for Shogi, Go 19x19 and Chess (WCCC)
- Schedule of the events

The rules sets: rules.pdf
The schedule: schedule.xls

The entry forms can be found at:
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/event_info.php?id=40 for the WCCC and
for the WCSC http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/event_info.php?id=41 and
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/event_info.php?id=42 for the Olympiad.

Information on hotels will follow soon.

Best regards,

Johanna Hellemons
for the Board of the ICGA

The 7th Annual Arimaa Man vs Machine Challenge Match

April 4th to April 24th 2010

Arimaa is a game designed to be difficult for computers and yet playable with a standard chess set. The best players are currently humans.

For more information visit:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/wcc/2010/

The third edition of the Chess Programmers Tournament

The third edition of the Chess Programmers Tournament will be held on the 20th and 21st of March in Hoogstraten-Wortel, Belgium.
Details and registration can be found here

Chess960 Computer World Championship in Mainz

The fifth Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship will be held from 29.07-31.07 2009 in Mainz, Germany. A double round robin tournament with a four game final on the last day will be played by last years finalists Rybka (USA), Shredder (Germany) and two ICC internet qualifiers. There will be one qualifier on Saturday, July 4 2009 at 1pm. The finals will take place on Sunday, July 5, 2009 3pm. More information about the online qualifier can be found on www.chessclub.com

The computer event is embedded in the Chess Classic Mainz chess festival. More information about this biggest rapid chess event in the world can be found on www.chesstigers.de

Please contact tournament director Eric van Reem (evr@chesstigers.de) for further details

The Board of the ICGA is pleased to announce that the 14th Computer Olympiad, the 17th World Computer Chess Championship, and the 12th Conference on Advances in Computer Games (ACG12) will be held in Pamplona, Spain, early May 2009.

The conference will take place from May 11 to May 13.

The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

The International CSVN Tournament (Computer Chess) will be held from June 5 to June 7, 2009, in the "Leids Denksportcentrum", Leiden, The Netherlands.

It will be combined with the 19th Users Tournament and the 1st Engine Users Tournament.

For more information, visit the CSVN website.

Chess960 Computer World Championship in Mainz

The fourth Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship will be held from 30.7-01.08 2008 in Mainz, Germany.
A double round robin tournament with a four game final on the last day will be played by the programs Rybka (USA), Shredder(Germany) and the ICC internet qualifiers Deep Sjeng (Belgium) and Naum (Canada). The computer event is embedded in the Chess Classic Mainz chess festival. More information can be found on www.chesstigers.de.

Please contact tournament director Eric van Reem (evr@chesstigers.de) for further details.

2008 Forum of Computer Games and World 9x9 Computer Go Championship

The "2008 Forum of Computer Games and World 9x9 Computer Go Championship" will be held on September 26-27 at National University of Tainan and Chang-Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan.

Those programs which participate in the 13th International Computer Games Championship in Beijing is free to enter the tournament. Please visit http://go.nutn.edu.tw for more information.

7th International Open Polish Computer Chess Championship

I have the pleasure to inform you that the 7th International Open Polish Computer Chess Championships registration started. Deadline for registration is 16.05.2008. Forms in *.doc or *.pdf format can be taken from http://iopccc7.maciej.szmit.info/registration.htm

Due to mpps.64pola.pl errors I decided to place a copy of the International Open Polish Computer Chess Championships pages on my private domain http://iopccc7.maciej.szmit.info. I hope the original server problems will be corrected soon, but now you can see the latest version of iopccc-7 pages only on http://iopccc7.maciej.szmit.info.

Computer Stratego World Championship

StrategoUSA will conduct its second annual Computer Stratego World Championship during August 2008. This is an open, round robin tournament held online and hosted by Metaforge. Spectators can watch games real time, or replay logs of completed games.

Participants run their programs from their personal computers and interface through the Metaforge client. Metaforge has published a Stratego AI SDK for both Java and native applications. Download the SDK here: http://www.metaforge.net/olg/webstratego/ai/MetaforgeBotSDK.zip

For more information on the 2008 tournament, browse the StrategoUSA wiki here: http://www.strategousa.org/

The 18th World Computer Shogi Championship will be held on 3-5 May in Kisarazu, Japan. ( Registration Deadline: January 31, 2008 )
For more information see: www.computer-shogi.org/wcsc18/index_e.html.
(English version of the rule of this year is under construction, but it is almost same as that of last year. ( www.computer-shogi.org/wcsc17/rule_e.html)

This is the preliminary announcement of the French Championship Rapid Polish Draughts Open for Computerprograms 2008.
Day of the tournament : Sunday the 30th of March 2008.
In the same time, there will be also a tournament for humans : the 4th International Open of Douaisis.
Location : "Salle des fêtes" from GOUY SOUS BELLONNE
(North of France, near DOUAI at 50 Km from Lille, at 200 Km from Paris).
Time : 09:30 Installing the hardware, 10.00 Start first round.
Rules will be the same as last tournaments (full round or swiss system*) * depending on the number of participants
Time : approximately 20 minutes per round and participant, after 75 moves arbitration if necessary.
If you want to participate, please confirm before the 20th of March
and include if you want to come with a Laptop or a Desktop PC.

The 17th Paderborn Computer Chess Championship (IPCCC) taking place in the
HNF MuseumsForum in Paderborn. It will be again a cooperation between the HNF and the University Paderborn.
Besides the fact that the HNF is itself a highly interesting location,
it possesses very nice rooms that the participants are allowed to use.

The 17th IPCCC will take place from Dec. 27th to Dec 30th 2007. The maximum number of participating programs is 16.
Please, let the organizer know as soon as possible (preferable up to the end of Sept 2007) whether you like to participate.
Please, let the organizer also know, if you can play remote, or whether you plan to bring your own hardware to Paderborn,
or whether you need hardware from the University. Hardware support will be limited
(concerns the procossors, not monitors, mouses etc.).

The timing rules will be as last year, i.e something like 2 hours for the entire game for each side.
That makes safe that a game will not take more than 4 hours, and we have the opportunity to play up to 3 rounds at one or two days.

2007 Chinese Computer Games Championship & Chinese Computer Games Conference

Between 3.10.2007 and 8.10.2007 there will be a tournament and conference in Chongqing of China.
(More information about this location can be found here) There are 4 games in this tournament:
(1) Chinese Chess
(2) 9x9 Go
(3) 19x19 Go
(4) Connect-Six
Prof. Chen Zhixing, the author of Handtalk, will participate in the 19x19 Go tournament!
For more information please visit our website. The deadline of registration is 15.8.2007.

If there are any problems, please contact Changming Xu.
Prof. Liu Zhiqing is in charge of the Go tournament.

The third Chess960 Computer World Championship will be held from 15-17 August 2007 in Mainz, Germany.
A double round robin tournament will be played by the programs Shredder, Jonny, Spike and Rybka.
The computer event is embedded in the Chess Classic Mainz chess festival.
More information can be found on www.chesstigers.de. Please contact tournament director
Eric van Reem (eric.vanreem@chesstigers.de) for further details.

Ph.D. student Maarten Schadd (MICC-IKAT, Universiteit Maastricht) has developed a computer program,
which is able to solve the African board game Fanorona: the outcome is proven to be a draw if both players play optimally.
Maastricht, The Netherlands, April 2007

Deep Fritz will play Deep Junior in the
the Ultimate Computer Chess Challenge.
The event will be held during the
Candidates Matches for the (human) World Championship
May 26 to June 14 in 2007 in Elista, Kalmykia.
The prize fund is 100,000 USD.
Details on the competition can be found here .

Thanks to the efforts of Remi Coulom and aid of other ICGA members,
the ICGA Tournament Data Base
containing data of previously held WCCCs and Olympiads
has been made available online.

The Technical University of Lodz, Poland organizations the
6th Open Polish Computer Chess Championship
on 29 June - 01 July 2007 .
Further details are available on the tournament website

Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest beaten by Rybka 2.3 in a pawn-odds computer chess match
The match took place March 6-8 in Potomac, Maryland.
Eight-game matches were held, the time limit is 45' + 10'' increment,
the computer played White in all games,
white pawns were removed over the eight games.
Coverage by the Rubyka team and by by Ehlvest
Final Score: Rybka: 5.5 - Ehlvest: 2.5

The Computer Chess match Erwin l'Ami vs. Zappa held at the
Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 6-7, 2007, ended 1 - 1. Both games were drawn.
Results can be obtained form the Chess Events Maastricht Foundation
Match Report

The 7th International CSVN Tournament
will be held from 18 - 20 May 2007 in Leiden, The Netherlands

The third Chess960 Computer World Championship will be
held on 16 and 17 August 2007. Details will be announced soon.
Please contact Eric van Reem for further details.

The 16th Paderborn Computer Chess Championship (IPCCC)
was held in Paderborn, Germany 27-30 December 2006
Rybka wins the tournament, Shredder is second, Gandalf is third.

The Man vs. Machine competition is beeing held in Bonn. World Champion Vladimir Kramnik is competing against Deep Fritz 10 (multi processor version).
The final score is: 2.0 (Kramnik) - 4.0 (Fritz 10)

Bonn, Germany 25. November - 5. December 2006

Butcher has won the 5th Polish Computer Chess Championships (PCCC5)
Lodz, 16-17 September 2006

In the morning of August 14, 2006,
Professor Adriaan D. de Groot passed away at the age of 91.

The famous Dutch chess master, mathematician, and psychologist conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. In 1946 he wrote his thesis Het denken van den schaker, which in 1965 was translated in English and published as Thought and choice in chess.

Wikipedia
Chessbase

recent event
Shredder wins Chess960 Computer World Championship competition
The Chess960 Computer World Championship
Mainz, Germany (August 17 and 18, 2006)
(German link)

During the 37th Chess Olympiad
in Turin, Italy (May 20 - June 4, 2006)
three ICGA events took place: