THREE CHESS EVENTS AT UMBC--SPRING 1995

Sponsored by the UMBC Chess Club
University of Maryland Baltimore County

1. Simultaneous Exhibition (Sat February 18)
2. Man-Machine Chess Match (Friday March 24)
3. UMBC Open Tournament (Sat-Sun April 15-16)
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Sat February 18, 1995
Simultaneous Exhibition and Lecture by Grandmaster Sagalchik

Simultaneous exhibition and lecture by International Master (and
soon-to-be Grandmaster) Gennady Sagalchik (USCF rating 2568).  1-4pm,
University Center Ballroom Lounge, UMBC.  Lecture 1:00-1:30pm.
Immediately after the lecture, Grandmaster Sagalchik will
simultaneously play all participants. $2 if received by 2/10; $5 at
event.  Participants must bring their own (tournament-size) chess
sets.  Spectators free and welcome.
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Friday March 24, 1995
Man-Machine Chess Match (Grandmaster Sagalchik vs. CM-5 Supercomputer)

Grandmaster Sagalchik returns to UMBC to play one slow, rated game
against a CM-5 Supercomputer running the MIT Star-Socrates chess
program.  Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building, UMBC.
Game: 10am-4pm in room 22.  At 4pm in Lecture Hall V, Bradley
Kuszmaul (MIT) will deliver a technical lecture on massively parallel
search and its application to computer chess.  Spectators free and
welcome.  A large demonstration chess board will show the game in
progress.

Star-Socrates is one of the best computer chess programs in the world
and plays at the grandmaster level.  Written by Chris Joerg (MIT),
Star-Socrates is an implementation of the Socrates chess program for
the Connection Machine.  It applies Kuszmaul's new massively parallel
search technique known as Jamboree search, which is parallelization of
Pearl's Scout search.  The program will run on a CM-5 supercomputer at
the National Center of Supercomputing Applications in
Urbana-Champagne, IL, using a telephone connection to UMBC.  With 512
processors and 16 gigabytes of main memory, this supercomputer
searches over one million chess positions per second.
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Sat-Sun April 15-16, 1995
UMBC Open Tournament

Grand Prix 5-round Swiss sytem in three sections (Open, Under 2000, Under 1500).
University Center Ballroom, UMBC.
Registration 8:30-9:30am.  
Rounds Sat 10, 3, 8 and Sun 10, 3.  
Entrance fee: $25 by 4/7; $30 at site.   
Time controls 30/90, SD/30.    See {\it Chess Life}.
Over $1,000 in cash prizes (based on 60 entries).  
   Open:  $250, $150, $100.
   Under 2000: $150, $100, $50.
   Under 1500: $150, $100, $50.  
USCF membership required (may be purchased at site for $30).
Unrateds may play in any section, but no unrated may win more than
$100 in the Under 1500 section.  Spectators free and welcome.
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Entries and Additional Information:

Send all entries to: Alan T. Sherman, Computer Science Department,
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 5401 Wilkens Ave., Baltimore,
MD 21228-5398.  For directions to UMBC, see reverse side.  Tele. (410)
455-2666, sherman@cs.umbc.edu, http://www.umbc.edu
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Directions to UMBC

UMBC is near Interstate 95, a few miles south of Baltimore.

From Interstate 95: Take Exit 47B (47A goes to BWI Airport) onto
Rt. 166 north (towards Catonsville), and follow signs to UMBC.  Turn
left onto Loop Road.  From Interstate 70: Follow I695 south and take
Exit 12C (Wilkens Ave. West).  Proceed 1/2 mile west on Wilkens
Ave. to UMBC entrance on left.  Turn right onto Loop Road.  Parking:
Park in Lot 16 or Lot 9, or anywhere along Loop Road.  Walk towards
the campus center.  Playing Site: University Center Ballroom (above
Bookstore, and behind Engineering/Computer Science Building).