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SUMMARY:DEF CON Chess Tournament\, Saturday: 15:00-18:00
DESCRIPTION:.. [/URL]\n \n\n..\nDEF CON Chess Tournament\nSaturday: 15:00 -
  18:00\nDEF CON Contest Area\, Forum Ballroom | in-person |\n\nTwitter: @[
 URL="https://twitter.com/defconchess"]defconchess (filedata/fetch?id=24563
 7&d=1686368727) \, For early registration\, please send your name and rati
 ng to: defconchess@gmail.com​\n\nChess\, computers\, and hacking go way 
 back. In the 18th century\, the Mechanical Turk appeared to play a good ga
 me\, but there was a human ghost hiding in the shell. Some of the first co
 mputer software was written to play chess. In 1997\, world champion Garry 
 Kasparov lost to the program Deep Blue\, but after the match he accused IB
 M of cheating\, alleging that only a rival grandmaster could have made cer
 tain moves.\n\nAt DEF CON 31\, we will run a human chess tournament. The g
 ames will have a “blitz” time control of 5 minutes on each player’s 
 clock\, for a maximum total game time of 10 minutes. The tournament will h
 ave a Swiss-system format\, with a fixed number of rounds. The match pairi
 ng for each round is done after the previous round has ended\, and depends
  on its results. Each player is paired with another player who has a simil
 ar running score.\n\nTo determine the winner\, the Swiss system is conside
 red highly effective\, even when there is a large number of competitors an
 d a small number of rounds. Every player gets to play the full tournament\
 , and the winner has the highest aggregate score when all rounds are over.
 \n\nThere will be trophies and prizes for the top three players.\n\nThe to
 urnament mechanics will be managed by the Las Vegas Chess Center (LVCC)\, 
 which has many years of experience in organizing royal game tournaments fo
 r all strength levels and ages. LVCC has professional coaches\, and grandm
 asters are frequent visitors.​\n\nMax players: 100. In order to crown th
 e best chess player at DEF CON\, we will register the highest-rated player
 s first.​
URL:https://forum.defcon.org/node/245487
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LOCATION:DEF CON Contest Area\, Forum Ballroom
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