Hi Pasky, The winners of Denseisen (professionals or the authors) will get the prize money: 100,000 or 200,000 yen for the winner of the first or second game (Ishida 9p versus the second or first place program of UEC Cup), respectively.
#Since 2009 I brought my laptop to the venue and connected to Zen (actually a pc cluster at my room) through the Internet. Oversea entrants also use remote connections. Hideki Petr Baudis: <20121122232017.gg7...@machine.or.cz>: > Hi! > >On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:32:24AM +0900, Hideki Kato wrote: >> BTW, the official announce of "Denseisen" has been released. >> http://entcog.c.ooco.jp/entcog/densei/ (in J) and >> a pdf file for press. >> http://entcog.c.ooco.jp/entcog/densei/Release20121120.pdf (in J) >> >> Denseisen is the name of a serie of (handicap) games between >> professional players and computer players under the contract between >> Nihon Ki-in (Ichigaya, Tokyo) and UEC (The University of >> Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo). The contract is valid for five >> years. Note that Denseisen is an "offical" serie. >> >> #For Denseisen. The "den", "sei" and "sen" mean electric or electronic, >> saint and match, respectively. Similar to well-known "Kiseisen", in >> which "Kisei" means a saint of Go (or Shogi) where "saint" suggests >> almost the God level. Historically, there is a word "Kensei" where >> "ken" and "sei" mean sword and saint. The title "Kensei" is used >> for the very excellent swordmen for long years in Japan and is still >> well known. Hence, "Densei" is created as the title for very excellent >> computer Go players. >> >> The first match will be held on March 20th, 2013 (a Spring holiday) at >> UEC. Two games are planned. The professional player for both is Shuho >> Ishida 24th Hon'inbo (Yoshio Ishida 9p). The computer players are >> the 1st and 2nd places of the Sixth UEC Cup, which will be held on >> March 16th and 17th, 2013. Handicaps will be studied after the UEC >> Cup. >> >> Nihon Ki-in: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/index-e.htm >> UEC: http://www.uec.ac.jp/eng/ > > That is mighty awesome, thank you so much for sharing this news! >Participation in UEC Cup seems suddenly to be something to consider >much more seriously! > > If I read Google Translate output right, there is also prize 100,000 >and 200,000 yen for the matches; is this something the winner of the >Densei match receives, or is placement in the UEC Cup enough (i.e. just >qualifying for the Densei match)? This could at least cover any travel >expenses, and seems to be after long time first open computer Go match >with significant financial reward. > > P.S.: In UEC cup, do you bring the whole cluster in the playing room, >or does Zen run only on a single computer? :-) > > Petr "Pasky" Baudis >_______________________________________________ >Computer-go mailing list >Computer-go@dvandva.org >http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go -- Hideki Kato <mailto:hideki_ka...@ybb.ne.jp> _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
