This year the annual European Computer Go Congress is in Leksand,
Sweden, for two weeks, July 26 - August 9. On the Wednesday in of the
second week, August 6th, it will include a Computer Go tournament, with
prizes.
Anyone may enter, there is no need to be European. The cost of entering
is included with the cost of entering the main Congress, for at least
the second week; if done before June 15th this is 60 Euros. This
payment also qualifies you to enter various other events, as shown in
the schedule.
The main event will be a 19x19 Swiss, or Round Robin if time allows.
There may be a small-board event, depending on how much interest there
is. Both will be held on KGS, so entrants should support GTP, as they
do for the monthly KGS bot tournaments. We also hope to hold a
computer-human challenge, between the winning program and a strong
player.
I hope that readers of this list will consider competing. Some reasons
to compete:
You will get an opportunity to meet your rival programmers
face-to-face, and discuss programming techniques with them. (I greatly
enjoyed listening to a conversation between Mick Reiss and David Fotland
in the 1992 European Go Congress, though I could understand little of
it.)
Leksand is a pleasant town on a lake, a tourist destination, and
travelling to the congress is a good excuse for a holiday.
There aren't many "real-life" Computer Go tournaments, with prizes
and official recognition. This year there will be one in Beijing,
China; maybe one in Ogaki City, Japan; and this one. If you are a
European programmer, this is a good chance to get your program's
performance into the official records.
Unfortunately, no-one has yet registered. If you are considering
entering, please do so soon (either by telling me or via the Congress
web site), otherwise there is a danger that the computer event will be
cancelled.
Main European Go Congress page:
http://egc2008.eu/en/congress/index.php
Schedule:
http://egc2008.eu/en/congress/schedule.php
Computer Go event:
http://egc2008.eu/en/events/computer_go.php
The town of Leksand
http://egc2008.eu/en/leksand/index.php
Nick
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Nick Wedd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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