Additional Information of 2nd Computer Renju Championship

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From: stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru  "Nosovsky A.M."
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:46:33 +0400

Hello Computer friends of Renju
This is information about 2-d WC among computer programs.
The championship will be in Moscow 17-23 of August 1998
We plan to use Pentium 166-200 , 32 Mb machines,Win-95
You can bring your own computer.
As you remember it will be two tournaments.
Entre fee 30 USD , or 40 both tournaments. 
We can book the hotels *-*** with prices 10-70 USD per night.
Please, inform us if you need invitation for visa,
Please, test your program with the renju test at 5 kyu 
there are 10 problems. 
http://194.87.49.195/Renju/default.htm
You can send solution in pos files to me (ziped please)
Some of players suggest to govern their program by Internet, we can suggest
 VNC program 
ftp://194.87.49.194/VNC
I am not sure that Internet will work carefull 8-10 hours during
competition, and also we have to remember about time in different
countries. It may be takes additional fee for Internet and telephon.
More easy to send me demo-versions of your programs with limit time.
Please ziped it.
Some of players who can not visit Russia this time ask me about it.
You can send me your programs with English Menu and some information and
also possibility to load and save .pos files.
Format of .pos files is in this letter.
Send it two weeks before because I probably will have some questions.
So, please send me the Entry Form before 1 July 1998.
Entry Form
1.Name of Program, Authors
2.Country
3.Paticipation (personal), send software, virtual with Internet
4. Need you computer from organizers or not.
5.1. Participation WC in solving problems
5.2. Participation WC tournament.
6. Postal Address (winner will receive Cup may be by mail).
7. I agree to pay entre fee before 1 of August 1998.
For each country I can suggest better way of payment.

The list of probable participants of WC
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In this section, there is the list of a name and an e-mail 
address whose a person may entry the WC.
But I deleted because of privacy.
Many people will join from various countries and areas.

annoted by ToMo
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 Please, make possibility to load .pos files in your program.
 We need to load problems for problems competition.
 see also Pascal text of this pos file.
 var
     Buffer : array[0..225] of Char ;
     mm:integer;
     s:string[225];
 begin
 ..........................................
   s:=Position; 
   mm:=GetMaxMove(s); // mm=moves count
   Buffer[0]:=Chr(mm);
   for i:=1 to mm do
   begin
      j:=1;
      while ((GetMoveNumber(s[j])<>i) and (j<=225)) do INC(j);
      Buffer[i]:=Chr(j-1); // where is move number i
   end;
 ..........................................
   FileWrite(FileHandle,Buffer,mm+1);
 ..........................................
 end;
 
 Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky
 P.S. Don't hesistate to ask me more questions.
Please visit the conference about logic games including Renju
URL:http://www.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/~iida/CG98-CFP.html
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This document is an e-mail that ToMo received from Mr.Nosovsky, 
and is opened to the public on my Web Page to inform widly.


ToMo
e-mail: fqa51419@biglobe.ne.jp
Home Page: http://www2k.biglobe.ne.jp/~tomo/ 

05/13/98 1st ed.