From: Hiroyuki Iida <iida <at> CS <dot> INF <dot> SHIZUOKA <dot> AC <dot> JP>
Date: 30 sep 1999
Subject: Second Open Computer Amazon Championship. 13-14 December, 1999.

Dear Colleague,

This is an invitation to the Second Open Computer Amazon Championship
which will be held on 13-14 December, 1999.
Participants(programmer/operator) may not attend the championship, instead
be required to send their program to the organizer.

Feel free to forward this message to anybody you know who might also be
interested in it, thank you.

Hiroyuki Iida
Shizuoka University


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        THE SECOND OPEN COMPUTER AMAZON CHAMPIONSHIP
             CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

                   organized by

      Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
        Game and Puzzle Computer Competition (GPCC)
                        and
         Computer Games Research Institute (CGRI)
                Shizuoka University

               13-14 December, 1999

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Date:        13-14 / December / 1999
Place:       Shizuoka University, Japan
Host:        GPCC & CGRI
Application: Send your program to the Amazon Championship committee
            (It should work on Windows 95 or 98. If not, contact us.)
Deadline for application: 29 / November / 1999
Reference:   Computer Amazon Championship committee
            (c/o CGRI, Shizuoka University)

E-mail: cs6501 <at> cs <dot> inf <dot> shizuoka <dot> ac <dot> jp
        hasimoto <at> cs <dot> inf <dot> shizuoka <dot> ac <dot> jp
        iida <at> cs <dot> inf <dot> shizuoka <dot> ac <dot> jp
Tel +81-53-478-1456   FAX +81-53-478-1499

Send to:
        Amazon Championship Committee
        c/o Hiroyuki Iida
        Computer Games Research Institute (CGRI)
        Shizuoka University
        3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu, 432-8011 Japan

URL:   http://www.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/~hasimoto/amazon/championship_e.html

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               APPLICATION FORM

The Second Computer Open AMAZON Championship

1. Name

2. Address

3. Telephone number

4. E-mail address

5. Program's name

6. Language for Program

7. OS

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                TOURNAMENT RULES
    for the Second Computer Open Amazon Championship

         Computer Games Research Institute (CGRI)
                Shizuoka University
                13-14 December, 1999


0. What is AMAZON?
To see/learn the rules, you may see a report article by Sasaki and Iida,
titled: Report on the First Open Computer-Amazon Championship, in
ICCA Journal, vol.22, no.1, pp.41-44, 1999.
(URL: http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~icca/journal.htm)

1. Participation requirements
- Display the current position
- input a move, both as White and Black
- Undo function (essential)
- Save a game score
- Possibly finish a game within 15 minutes

2. Tournament rules
- All games will be played on machines of CGRI
- Each program plays as both White and Black
- When a program stops by accident, the game may re-play.
  If it stops more than twice, the game will be regarded as invalid, and
  the unfortunate program will lose the game.
- When we have less than 6 participants, a round-robin tournament is adopt.
  Otherwise, a modified Swiss method --- five round tournament is adopt.
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