The ICGA will provide $500 in financial assistance to 12 amateur Chess
programmers to assist them with the cost of their air tickets.

Early Registration Deadline Extension: June 1, 2004

Register at:
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/wccc2004/

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12th World Computer Chess Championship
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
July 4th-12th 2004

The ICGA is delighted to announce that today we have signed a contract with
Bar-Ilan University, Israel, for them to host the 2004 World Computer Chess
Championship.

The planning of this event has been in progress for some time and every
effort
is being made to ensure that the participants will enjoy their visit to
Israel.
The ICGA will provide $500 in financial assistance to 12 amateur Chess
programmers to assist them with the cost of their air tickets.

An excursion to Jerusalem will be arranged by the ICGA during the event.
There
will also be ample opportunity for participants to enjoy themselves during
the
evenings as the games will start earlier than at previous events.

In parallel with the World Computer Chess Championship the ICGA will be
organising the 9th Computer Olympiad and the 4th International Conference,
CG
2004 on Computers and Games, both of which will also take place at Bar-Ilan
University.

The event will be supported, amongst others, by the City of Ramat-Gan, Intel
Israel, Israel's Ministry of Tourism, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Mercury
Interactive, IBM Israel and Pitango.

The format for the 12th World Computer Chess Championship WCCC2004 will be:
11-round Swiss. The Tournament Director of the WCCC will be Professor Jaap
van
den Herik from the Computer Science Department of the Universiteit
Maastricht.
The deadline for early registration of the WCCC2004 is June 1, 2004.