 That actually also really worked to make everyone silent here. That's great Then maybe we should actually continue and open this right so Everyone welcome to Amsterdam Welcome to welcome to chess If you want to know who to blame for this do you hear me if you want to know who to blame for this for this conference then Peter is here from about university and if you want to show appreciation that would go to Iliana from risk cure Actually, we can say welcome to the biggest chess ever We're pretty close to 600 people now So we had to register a few people on site although officially on site registration is closed If you want to get an overview we have officially 592 people registered. Yeah from 40 different countries The biggest participation is from Germany then United States is very close number three is France and of course next comes Netherlands So yeah, yeah, so We want to thank to all our sponsors Rambos has been with chess for a very very long time And when you think about our sponsors, please consider for example the very nice dinner that we will have tonight Otherwise, it will be just next so that's due to our sponsors Yeah, a bit of overview of where we are here. You have already experienced the registration area, which Which is either in yellow where it says registration. We are here where it says we are here and You will later experience the food area and the poster area because we really would ask you to spread out a little bit Also into the poster area and into the registration area when when eating or drinking something during the breaks Yeah There is also a secret room from riskier, which I will not say what it is but you're all welcome to go and discover what it is and We also have a special session for breastfeeding So if you are interested in that then just come to the registration desk and we will give you out the key Yeah more sponsors gold sponsors and here also goes Apple who also is a gold sponsor And well, please think about them when you're enjoying the special beers tonight There's a few instructions that we should give you please keep your badges on it makes it much easier to figure out who actually belongs here If your speaker, please in the break before your session come here to the front Make sure that your slides are on this presentation laptop and speak to your session chairs And you may have noticed that this room is actually rather full We have well basically 600 people registered and 600 chairs So that kind of tells you how much you should squeeze and make sure that the room is really used You did a good job so far and the questions So when there's questions you will notice that we have two microphones that can be thrown around to make this a bit quicker and a bit more fun so Don't be afraid just throw them to whoever is raising their hand Whoever is indicated to ask next and then just speak in them when you when you hold them Yeah, so Again next to the record number of participants. We also had the record number of sponsors Think about them when you are I don't know what else Ah Well, actually probably quite a few students here get really nice students stipends and allow them to attend Yes, so if you see all the students around and are happy to see them, maybe think of those sponsors Ah, yes, and very important the social program for this week So tonight we will have a welcome the reception from starting from 6 30 until 8 30 and it's going to have a full dinner Please join Monday, we're gonna start at 7 with the dinner and the rum session will start at 8 o'clock We'll come back to the rum session in the next slide Tuesday We have a canal cruise and banquet at the Merity Museum Please be ready to go at around quarter past five We'll come back to that as well and Wednesday if all goes well, we're gonna close the conference at five o'clock Yeah, so that's a good moment to thank all of our other sponsors So please this whole conference wouldn't be possible without them So I think this is a good moment to give all of our sponsors from platinum to bronze everyone Maybe a clap. I think this is really nice to have the support. Ah, yes, the rum session So as we mentioned the rum session will begin at 8 o'clock on Monday You will have one hour to Have dinner, but the dinner will go on a little longer The rum session will begin with the talk from the program cheer who will mention statistics about the submission to chess and about they will talk about the new submission model of chess and Also, we will announce the winners of the chess ETF But your talks can go here. Please don't forget to submit them before tomorrow at noon time local time in Amsterdam Yeah, and then well, we already mentioned the canal cruise So basically we'll be facing the challenge of distributing 600 people onto 10 boats leaving at four different times from three different locations so Here's how this hopefully is going to work when you look at your badge then on the top you see a boat number that determines what boat you're on not very surprisingly and The idea is that you figure out at which time your group gathers in the Hranberg's all this information is on the chess website When you click on venue it's also in the booklet that you find in your bag And we will also reiterate that and show this on the slides here So please arrive at the indicated time and there will be a student holding up a sign with that number So you just gather around that student and follow your leader Yeah, and that was it so with this we declare chess 2018 open and welcome to chess