IONS-14 / OPTO Meeting For Young Researchers 2013 Khet Tournament
On 3-6 July 2013 at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland) there were two international student conferences: IONS-14 / Torun, which was the fourteenth European edition of well-known series of International OSA Network of Students conferences, OPTO Meeting For Young Researchers, which was co-organized with SPIE Student Chapter from Torun. Both conferences were attended by 75 students from 10 different countries, including: Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, Russia, Great Britain, USA, Australia. During the event apart from forging new friendships and sharing one s scientific experience students could take part in official tournament of Khet 2.0
During the first day of the conferences during the registration Warm-up Khet 2.0 session took place. Its goal was to make the participants of IONS-144 and OPTO Meeting acquainted with the game rules. The very tournament took place the second and third day of the conferences during the poster sessions. The number of participants was limited to 32 people, who played the knock-out-like tournament. Basic rules of the game were consistent with the main rules of Khet 2.0, but due to time constraints it was set that one game can last for 20 minutes and its winner is the person who beat more figures.
16 games were played during the first day.
On the second the finalists were selected in the next 14 games. On the photos below you can see semi-finals.
Khet 2.0 Tournament finale took place during the official banquet on the last day of the conferences. The maximum time of the final game was extender to 30 minutes. The additional challenge for the players were beam-splitters. To compete for the title of the best Khet 2.0 player during IONS-14 / Torun and OPTO Meeting For Young Researchers conferences two persons sat opposite to one another: Marek Szklarz (Poland) Elena Sunchugasheva (Russia)
Finale caught a lot of interest from the participants of the conferences.
Especially when people with significant skills took part in it.
The gameplay was very tight. Initially, the tide of war was on the side of Elena, who took two figures from Marek.
But in the end it was Marek Szklarz who won the game.
The winners of the tournament received statuettes made especially for the occasion by the creators of Khet 2.0 game. Marek and Elena also got the T-shirts with Khet 2.0 logo on them. On the photo (from the left) the winner of Khet 2.0 tournament, Marek Szklarz, the organizers of IONS-14 / Torun & OPTO Meeting For Young Researchers conferences, Krzysztof Maliszewski and Sylwia Maliszewska, the second best player during Khet 2.0 tournament, Elena Sunchugasheva. We would like to thank the creators of Khet 2.0 for their official suport and consent to organize Khet 2.0 tournament. We want also to thank Justyna Cembrzynska and Anna Grembowska for their help with the conferences and Khet 2.0 tournament. Conferences organizers IONS-14 / Torun & OPTO Meeting For Young Researchers