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Cilkchess, a parallel chess program developed by the
Supercomputing Technologies
Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science competes in the
1999 World Computer Chess Championship,
June 14-20, 1999 in Paderborn, Germany.
Cilkchess is written in Cilk-5 and is running on a 256-processor SGI
Origin 2000 at NASA Ames.
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Results
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You can follow Cilkchess's current game as it is being played or play
through the previous games Cilkchess has played in the tournament at the result webpage.
All games will take place in the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, Fürstenallee 7, 33102 Paderborn.
The tournament will be a 7-round Swiss-system event, using standard
(nonaccelerated) Swiss pairings.
The provisional schedule is as follows (Eastern Daylight Time):
| 14 June |
6:40am | Opening Ceremony |
| 4:00am - 6:00am | Officialregistration and rules meeting |
| 8:00am - 2:00pm | Round 1 |
| 15 June |
3:00am - 10:00am | Round 2 |
| 11:00am - 6:00pm | Round 3 |
| 16 June |
9:00am - 2:00pm | Round 4 |
| 11:00am - 6:00pm | ICCA Triannial Meeting & Elections |
| 17 June |
7:00am - 2:00pm | Round 5 |
| 18 June |
7:00am - 2:00pm | Round 6 |
| 19 June |
3:00am - 10:00am | Round 7 |
| 10:00am - as req. | Play-off if necessary |
| 2:00pm | Banquet for participants and sponsors |
| 20 June |
5:00am - 5:30am | Awards ceremony |
| 5:30am - 11:30am | Man-Machine games:
The first four programs of the 9th WCCC are invited
to play against a human team. (cf. Side Program) |
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