computer-go: 2002 edition of Polish Go Association's Internet Cup.

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Dear friends,

Welcome to the new 2002 edition of Polish Go Association's 
Internet Cup. This year there are new fabulous prizes and many 
substantial changes.

We offer you much faster access from abroad (connect to e-lux.pl 
9966 or poznan.icg.pl 110), we run new server code (thanks to 
WING development team) which we believe is the best one 
available, but the most important change is the new tournament 
system.

It is a unique system (we owe the idea to Leszek Soldan) that 
will propmote intensive play, will enable weaker players to play 
stronger ones quite often and best of all it will give you 
almost absolute freedom in choosing who you play and when.

To win you have to play. The more you play the better chances 
you have.

This is how it works:

You may enter at any time, 
Every player will register and report her/his rank. We accept 
EGF, AGA or WING ranked players, 
We set the meeting time every day at 19:00 GMT at Aurora - 
naturally you may set up different playing times and meet 
anywhere you like to make arrangements. This meeting time is set 
up to make it easier to find opponents, 
All games are even, 1/10, komi 5.5 japanese rules (regardles of 
server settings), to be played on Aurora (aurora.go.art.pl port 
9696, e-lux.pl 9966 or poznan.icg.pl 110), 
Players freely choose opponents and are awarded points only 
according to their opponent's strength (a win against 5 kyu is 
worth more than against 8 kyu), 
Result is reported and noted on-line on the web pages (we will 
attempt to make it as automated and hassle free as possible), 
The winners are the people with highest score at the end of the 
tournament, 
There will be also a prize for the most active player, 
Rules for settling the disputes: 
lost conection for more than 5 minutes results in forefeit, 
third disconnection is a considered a forefeit, 
no undo, no addtime. 
Depending on the number of entrants we might split the 
tournamnent into section A and B and allot a given number of 
prizes to each section. We will notify you of this in advance, 
We reserve the right to introduce new rules should it prove in 
our opinion necessary to stimulate activity or improve overall 
quality of the tournament, 
For the first 2 months you will play 'in the fog of war' - this 
means you will not be able to check opponents' records - only 
the number of the games they played, 
On the third and fourth month information on the score will be 
disclosed for the first two weeks, 
>From the fith month on full information (number of games and the 
score) will be available. 
We welcome any suggestions.

For detailed rules please see pages with tournament rules.

This year owing to generosity of our sponsor Kuroki Goishi Ten 
Ltd. we have fabulous prizes:

7 sets of size 34 (9,5mm) slate and shell stones!!! (Winners are 
responsible for shipping charges). Please visit their site: 
www.kurokigoishi.co.jp. (Distribution of these prizes will 
depend on possible split into two group of which we will notify 
you), 
'E-go' an on-line store (www.e-go.prv.pl) provides, for best 
Polish player, one go-book of her/his choice (up to 25 USD 
value). 
Don't forget to register!





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