Hello programmers,
Hierarchical Systems Research Foundation (HSRF), a privately funded
IRS recognized 501(c)3 public benefit organization, is providing a
total of $1,000 in prize money for a computer-computer tournament
to be held at the 2008 US Go Congress in Portland Oregon.
While the exact breakdown of the prize money is not yet final, we are
considering the following for a 19x19 tournament:
1st place: $400
2nd place: $200
3rd place: $100
4th place: $ 50
with the remaining $250 to be split between all of the programmers with
programs entered. The strong preference of HSRF is that the tournament
be structured so that each program plays each other program at least
once as Black and once as White, and time limits be similar to a human-
human tournament game
Another possibility is to decrease all of these amounts to make prize
money available for the highest placing programs in a computer-human
tournament. The possibility of such a tournament will depend upon the
TD's at the Congress.
Your thoughts will be considered, but the decision will be made by the
president and secretary of HSRF and finalized prior to the opening of
the Go Congress.
The original authors of open source programs are welcome to enter
and are eligible for prize money. "Clones" of existing programs are not
eligible for prize money and should not be entered. If you believe
that you have made significant changes to an open source program
(defined as logic that results in a move evaluation function that
results
in different move choices than the original open source program), then
your program can be considered for prize money. HSRF reserves the
right to form a committee of programmers to review the source code
changes and determine eligibility for prize money.
While HSRF does not wish to prevent a 9x9 tournament, at this time
we do not want to offer prize money for competition on 9x9 boards.
In the spirit of full disclosure, HSRF funds the research team at UC
Santa Cruz that has written the program SlugGo, and SlugGo will
enter the tournament.
Sincerely,
David G Doshay
President and Treasurer
Hierarchical Systems Research Foundation
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