In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter
Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
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.
As things stand, the August KGS bot tournament is scheduled for Sunday
August 5th, small boards only, Asian evening/European morning/American
night. Rather than reschedule or change this, I would prefer to run a
separate event, and let you specify the format, time limits, etc.
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.
The usual arrangement is a combination of 2 and 3 - the sponsors provide
standard Windows platforms, while any competitor who wants to bring his
own hardware may do so.
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/
Nick
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