World Computer Championships - some info
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From Compuserve posted by Vadim Kaminsky
The 8th ICCA World Computer Chess Championship
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
May 25-30, 1995
NEWS RELEASE: 23 November 1994
The ICCA is delighted to announce that the Chinese University of Hong Kong
will host the 8th ICCA World Computer Chess Championship. The five-round
championship, with one round each day beginning on Thursday May 25th, will
be followed by a match featuring the world's best computers and some of
the top players in Asia.
The world's strongest chess-playing computers are expected to participate
including IBM's DEEP BLUE, winner of the 1994 ACM International Computer
Chess Championship, FRITZ (a Dutch program that was first to defeat World
Chess Champion Gary Kasparov in a series of 5-minute games), CHESS
GENIUS 3 (a British program that recently defeated Kasparov in a two-game
match, where each player had 25 minutes to complete their moves), and the
current world computer-chess champion from The Netherlands, CHESS
MACHINE. As many as 24 teams are expected to compete. Most will use
high-speed microprocessors that will be in the tournament hall, while
others will be connected to remote supercomputers such as a CRAY, a
Connection Machine as far away as Boston, and a Parsytec transputer array
in Germany.
The event will take place on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong
Kong in their Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building. The playing hall has a
magnificent view of Tolo Harbour and the Ma On Mountains.
The event is sponsored primarily by IBM Research. Additional support is
being provided through the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong
Chess Club, and the Hong Kong business community. This long standing event
has been held every three years according to the following schedule:
Year and Location Winning program (country/author)
1974 Stockholm, Sweden Kaissa (USSR/Donskoy,Arlazarov)
1977 Toronto, Canada Chess 4.6 (USA/Slate,Atkin,Gorlen)
1980 Linz, Austria Belle (USA/Thompson,Condon)
1983 New York, USA Cray Blitz (USA/Hyatt et al.)
1986 Cologne, Germany Cray Blitz (USA/Hyatt et al.)
1989 Edmonton, Canada Deep Thought (USA/Hsu et al.)
1992 Madrid, Spain Chess Machine (Netherlands/Schroeder)
For more information please contact a member of the organizing committee
at one of the addresses below:
International Computer Chess Association (ICCA)
8th World Computer Chess Championship
Organizing Committee
Tony Marsland David Levy
ICCA President ICCA Event Coordinator
c/o Computer Science Department 89, Constantine Road
The University of Hong Kong London NW3 2LP
Pokfulam Road England
Hong Kong
email: mars...@csd.hku.hk email: dav...@intrsrch.demon.co.uk
Telephone: +852-549-3830 Telephone: +44-71-485-9146
Fax: +852-559-4528 Fax: +44-71-482-0672
Monty Newborn Hon Tsang
North American Coordinator Local Arrangements
School of Computer Science Department of Electronic Engg.
McGill University The Chinese University
Montreal, Quebec Shatin N.T.
Canada H3A 2A7 Hong Kong
email: new...@cs.mcgill.ca email: hkt...@ee.cuhk.hk
Telephone: +1-514-398-7079 Telephone: +852-609-8254
Fax: +1-514-398-3883 Fax: +852-603-5558
<courtesy of to...@cs.ualberta.ca (Tony Marsland)>