10th International CSVN Tournament 28-30 May 2010

[jkrabbenbos]

For the 10th time, the CSVN is organizing the International CSVN Tournament (ICT). Location is again "Leids Denksportcentrum", Robijnstraat 4, 2332 KE Leiden, The Netherlands.

Later this year the 30th Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship will take place.
Celebrating this, the board decided to invite some prominent programmers to the ICT10.
We are therefore proud to announce that

                  Don Dailey (programmer of the new 3000+ engine Komodo)
                                                     and
                                GM Larry Kaufman (Komodo, Rybka)

will attend ICT10 in person.

There will be two tournaments: the Programmers Tournament and the Users Tournament.

Programmers Tournament

The complete time schedule:

Friday 28 May 2010

11:50 location open
12:00-13:00 arrival, installation and opening
13:00-16:00 1st round
16:15-19:15 2nd round
19:30-22:30 3rd round

Saturday 29 May 2010

08:50 location open
09:00-09:45 arrival & installation
09:45-12:45 4th round
13:00-13:40 Member meeting CSVN
13:45-16:45 5th round
17:00-20:00 6th round

Sunday 30 May 2010

08:50 location open
09:00-09:45 arrival & installation
09:45-12:45 7th round
13:00-16:00 8th round
16:15-19:15 9th round (last)
19:20-20:00 Price ceremony

Information for potential participants. On all three days three rounds will be played. On Friday the location will open at 11:50. On Saturday and Sunday at 08:50. On Saturday there will be a special break at 13:00 for the CSVN Member Meeting. The games are played with 90 minutes per player for the whole game. Some rules:

The registration fee per program is € 0,-!! CSVN membership is not necessary.
The programmer, being somebody who wrote a main part of the program, needs to register together with the other team members, who have done their share of work on the program.
The source code of the program may not contain recognizable parts from published programs, unless the creators are in the team. In case of doubt the team gives the organization the possibility to look at the code and give comments on it.
Legal use of end game databases and opening books are allowed.
The winner of the tournament will receive the “Theo van der Storm” trophy.
During the tournament there will be also a team championship. The rules for this team championship will be published separately at a later moment.

Those who are planning to take part, are requested to register through email (jan.krabbenbos@gmail.com) or normal mail with Jan Krabbenbos, Karper 101, 3824 LV Amersfoort, The Netherlands. He is interested in the following information:

- The name of the program and the names, roles and presence of the team members.
- Names of all authors of the source code of the program.
- Mail and email addresses.
- Indication of playing strength.
- Type computer and number of cores where the program will run on.
- Used algorithms, operating system and compiler.
- Size of the program (in lines of source code) and the opening book.

We will enjoy your participation!


20th Users Tournament

The 20th Users Tournament will be played on 29 and 30 May 2010. The chess computers allowed are all machines up to 1900 ELO. Registration fee is € 0,-!! CSVN membership is not necessary.

You can enter by writing an email to Ries van Leeuwen (Gebruikerstoernooi@csvnsupplementsite.nl) or postal mail Lodewijk van Deysselhove 4, 3438 HS Nieuwegein, The Netherlands with information about the chess computer you are bringing to the tournament.

We will enjoy your participation!


Latest news about the tournaments can be found on the CSVN website: http://www.csvn.nl.

[Graham Banks]

This was originally posted in the Tournaments and Matches subforum, but I moved it here for greater exposure.