computer chess tournament

[Don Beal]

A reminder and announcement for computer-chess readers of this newsgroup:

The QMW "uniform platform" or "software intelligence"
Computer Chess Tournament will take place 3-7 Aug 1992 in London.

Anyone who has written a chess program can enter. The program has to be
sent to QMW prior to the tournament - but attendance of authors at the
tournament is optional, as the play will be automated, and the tournament
organisers will initiate each game.

Programs will run on identical machines, running at the same clock
speed, and with the same operating system underlying the chess program.
There will be two divisions (1) programs written for 386 IBM-PC
compatibles under MSDOS (will be run as binaries) (2) programs written
in C (will be compiled using the same C compiler and run on UNIX
machines (68030 cpu)). (The C source will be treated as confidential
and compiled without being examined or kept.)

Programmers must incorporate into their programs a simple software
interface that enables automatic transmission and reception of moves
from the other program. The communications software is provided
by the organisers.

The entry fee is #40 (#200 for commercial programs).

For further information, contact:
Don Beal
Department of Computer Science, QMW, London University
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
d...@dcs.qmw.ac.uk