* 18th World Computer Chess Championship
* World Chess Software Championship
* World Computer Chess Blitz Championship
* JAIST Computer Olympiad
* International Conference on Computers and Games 2010
Kanazawa, Japan : September 24th to October 2nd 2010
The ICGA is delighted to announce that our events for 2010 will be held in Kanazawa, Japan, hosted by the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). The contract for hosting this event was signed on October 5th in Kanazawa by ICGA President David Levy and JAIST President Takuya Katayama.
The provisional dates are September 24th to October 2nd 2010.
2010 is the 20th anniversary of the founding of JAIST and our events will form an important role in their anniversary celebrations.
Kanazawa is a city with a strong cultural identity. One of the most important sights in the city is Kenroku-en Garden, which is one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan.
JAIST have generously made available funding to enable us to provide financial support of 1,000 Euro for 10 of the participating teams in the World Computer Chess Championship, in order to defray their travel and accommodation costs. Full details will be made available in due course.
This announcement serves also as a call for papers for the International Conference on Computer Games (2010). Full details of the conference will be available in due course.
David Levy wrote:Hardware for the World Computer Chess Championships
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During the 2009 World Computer Chess Championship in Pamplona there was a
discussion with the participants about the question of hardware for these
events. The ICGA followed up on this discussion by sending a survey form to
every team who has competed in the WCCC this year and the previous five
years (i.e. from 2004 onwards). In the survey we asked teams to rank three
possibilities in order of their reference: [a] no limit on hardware;
uniform platform; [c] an 8-core limit for 2010 (this number to be
reconsidered for following years).
21 teams responded to this survey, indicating their preferences. One of
these put the 8-core proposal 3rd but did not express any preference between
the other two options.
The first choices from the 20 who expressed their opinions clearly were as
follows:
No limit on hardware: 10 teams
Uniform platform: 6 teams
8-core limit: 4 teams
We can thus see that there is a modest but clear preference for no limit on
hardware, but there is an equal division between teams who prefer no limit
and teams who prefer some limit.
As a result of this input from the participants the ICGA has decided upon
the following for the 2010 WCCC and subsequent years:
[1] The World Computer Chess Championship for the Shannon Trophy will be
contested by teams who have no Restriction placed on them as to their choice
of hardware.
[2] A new tournament will be introduced called the "World Chess Software
Championship" to be held at the same location and during the same period as
the WCCC. This will be a uniform platform event using computers loaned by
the host organisation. In each game played in this tournament the two
computers will be, so far as is possible, identical with respect to their
hardware capabilities: number of cores, processor speed, memory size.
[3] Participants may compete in either or both of these tournaments for a
single entry fee.
[4] The time control for the WCCC will be such as to aim for a 4-hour
playing session, namely all moves in 1 hour 45 minutes plus an increment of
15 seconds per move.
[5] The time limit for the WCSC will be such as to aim for a 2-hour playing
session, namely all moves in 45 minutes plus an increment of 15 seconds per
move.
[6] The WCCC will be an 11-round Swiss System event if there are more than
12 entries, otherwise an all-play-all event.
[7] The number of rounds for the WCSC will be decided according to the
number of entries in both events but there will be at least 9 rounds in the
WCSC.
[8] There will as usual be a rest day for an excursion and time set aside
for the speed championship.
I see this as a big improvement. Now, I hope the have the events in succession instead of interleaved. That way people that can only take
a short time away from work/home will have a better chance to participate by participating in just one of the two events while others can participate in both.
That is if they go to 3 rounds per day on each event. With the reduced TC's it is possible and WCCC can be run in 4 days and the software event can run in 3 days. The vacation day can separate the two events.
I think it is perfect. I always thought a hardware limit was a flawed approach. So two tournaments, one with no hardware limit, and one with uniform hardware, is perfect in my view. They got it right this time.
* 18th World Computer Chess Championship
* World Chess Software Championship
* World Computer Chess Blitz Championship
* JAIST Computer Olympiad
* International Conference on Computers and Games 2010
Kanazawa, Japan : September 24th to October 2nd 2010
The ICGA is delighted to announce that our events for 2010 will be held in Kanazawa, Japan, hosted by the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). The contract for hosting this event was signed on October 5th in Kanazawa by ICGA President David Levy and JAIST President Takuya Katayama.
The provisional dates are September 24th to October 2nd 2010.
2010 is the 20th anniversary of the founding of JAIST and our events will form an important role in their anniversary celebrations.
Kanazawa is a city with a strong cultural identity. One of the most important sights in the city is Kenroku-en Garden, which is one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan.
JAIST have generously made available funding to enable us to provide financial support of 1,000 Euro for 10 of the participating teams in the World Computer Chess Championship, in order to defray their travel and accommodation costs. Full details will be made available in due course.
This announcement serves also as a call for papers for the International Conference on Computer Games (2010). Full details of the conference will be available in due course.
<sigh>. 10 whole days. One month into a new semester. at least 2 days for travel on top of that. Wish we could go back to the old days of 4-5 days total for these things, so that they are actually doable. Two weeks of class is not something I can write off.
Spock wrote:I think it is perfect. I always thought a hardware limit was a flawed approach. So two tournaments, one with no hardware limit, and one with uniform hardware, is perfect in my view. They got it right this time.
Except for it taking 10 days to play the thing, plus at least 2 days to travel to/from, making this a 12+ day "vacation". That is two weeks of class here, which I am unwilling to write off.
Spock wrote:I think it is perfect. I always thought a hardware limit was a flawed approach. So two tournaments, one with no hardware limit, and one with uniform hardware, is perfect in my view. They got it right this time.
Except for it taking 10 days to play the thing, plus at least 2 days to travel to/from, making this a 12+ day "vacation". That is two weeks of class here, which I am unwilling to write off.
Too bad you can't get off two weeks for Japan. Still one year time to arrange things. With your age in mind, you should work and teach a little less next year to take some computer chess sabbatical
bob wrote:Except for it taking 10 days to play the thing, plus at least 2 days to travel to/from, making this a 12+ day "vacation". That is two weeks of class here, which I am unwilling to write off.
If all those tournaments are scheduled cleverly, it should not be necessary to take that many days off in order to participate in only one of them.
bob wrote:Except for it taking 10 days to play the thing, plus at least 2 days to travel to/from, making this a 12+ day "vacation". That is two weeks of class here, which I am unwilling to write off.
If all those tournaments are scheduled cleverly, it should not be necessary to take that many days off in order to participate in only one of them.
Rémi
That's a big "if". The ICGA has not exactly been overflowing with "cleverness" for the past dozen years or so. I'd be willing to bet that the two events (one of which is pointless) will be "interleaved". And with recent attendance it really could be done in 3-4 days _total_.
