The next US Go Congress will be held July 28 - August 4, 2007, in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania:
http://congress.usgo.org/
Is anyone else planning to attend?
I would, at the very least, like to gather a casual meeting of Go
programmers.
It might also be interesting (and a good media opportunity) to hold a
computer tournament. I see three possibilities:
1) Not require the machines in question to be physically present.
This would require a certain amount of faith that there were really
programs at the other end, so it would probably not be appropriate to
offer any prize for this. This is the easiest to organize, as it
amounts to convincing Nick to hold that month's KGS tournament on an
appropriate date.
2) Require people to bring their machines. This is a bit of a pain
for the programmers.
3) Require all programs to run on identical machines provided on-
site. Hopefully someone could arrange a local computer vendor to loan
some fast machines in return for the free press. This approach would,
unfortunately, exclude SlugGo and anyone that's been building special-
purpose hardware. I might try to swing this at the 2008 Congress,
which will be held here in Portland, Oregon, the home of a very large
Intel facility.
Such a tournament could be followed up by an exhibition match against
strong humans (including professionals).
What do you think? Is there anyone in the Pennsylvania area that
would be willing to organize such a tournament this year?
Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
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