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The **First World Chess Software Championship** took place from September 24 to October 2, 2010, at Shiinoki Cultural Complex, [|Kanazawa], [|Japan], in conjunction with the 18th World Computer Chess Championship, the 15th Computer Olympiad and the 7th Computer and Games conference. All events were hosted by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and organized by the ICGA. Unified Hardware was based on [|Intel® Xeon® W3520, 8M Cache, 2.66 GHz], Quad-Core, [|Hyper-threading] off. The winner of the 2010 WCSC is Shredder, Rondo runner up a half point behind, and bronze for Thinker.

=Final Standing= First World Chess Software Championship (WCSC)
 * ~ # ||~ Program ||~ CC ||~ 1 ||~ 2 ||~ 3 ||~ 4 ||~ 5 ||~ 6 ||~ 7 ||~ 8 ||~ 9 ||~ total ||~ SoDOS ||
 * ~ 1 ||< Shredder ||~ DE ||> **bye** ||> 7w1 ||> 8b1 ||> 4w½ ||> 5b1 ||> 3b1 ||> 9w1 ||> 2w½ ||> 5b1 ||~ 8 ||=  ||
 * ~ 2 ||< Rondo ||~ US ||> 3b½ ||> 8b1 ||> 7w1 ||> 9w1 ||> 4w1 ||> 6b1 ||> 5w½ ||> 1b½ ||> **bye** ||~ 7½ ||=  ||
 * ~ 3 ||< Thinker ||~ US ||> 2w½ ||> **bye** ||> 6b½ ||> 5b1 ||> 7b1 ||> 1w0 ||> 8b1 ||> 9w1 ||> 4w½ ||~ 6½ ||=  ||
 * ~ 4 ||< PandixBreakthrough ||~ HU ||> 8b1 ||> 6w½ ||> 9w1 ||> 1b½ ||> 2b0 ||> 5w½ ||> 7w1 ||> **bye** ||> 3b½ ||~ 6 ||= 13¾ ||
 * ~ 5 ||< Deep Junior ||~ IL ||> 7b1 ||> 9b1 ||> **bye** ||> 3w0 ||> 8w1 ||> 4b½ ||> 2b½ ||> 6w1 ||> 1w0 ||~ 6 ||= 12¾ ||
 * ~ 6 ||< Jonny ||~ DE ||> 9b1 ||> 4b½ ||> 3w½ ||> 8w1 ||> 1w0 ||> 2w0 ||> **bye** ||> 5b0 ||> 7b1 ||~ 5 ||=  ||
 * ~ 7 ||< Darmenios ||~ PL ||> 5w0 ||> 1b0 ||> 2b0 ||> **bye** ||> 3w0 ||> 9b1 ||> 4w0 ||> 8w1 ||> 6w0 ||~ 3 ||=  ||
 * ~ 8 ||< Fridolin ||~ DE ||> 4w0 ||> 2w0 ||> 1w0 ||> 6b0 ||> 5b0 ||> **bye** ||> 3w0 ||> 7b0 ||> 9b1 ||~ 2 ||=  ||
 * ~ 9 ||< Hector for Chess ||~ HU ||> 6w0 ||> 5w0 ||> 4b0 ||> 2b0 ||> **bye** ||> 7w0 ||> 1b0 ||> 3b0 ||> 8w0 ||~ 1 ||=  ||
 * [|CC Country Codes]
 * SoDOS: [|Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores]

=Photos= by Jan Krabbenbos
 * [[image:JaapStafanChristian2010.jpg link="http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=472%3Afoto-impressie-wcccwcsc-kanazawa-japan&catid=51%3Atoernooien&Itemid=28&lang=en"]] ||
 * Jaap van den Herik, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Christian Sommerfeld ||

=Time control= The time limit for the WCSC will be such as to aim for a 2-hour playing session, namely all moves in 45 minutes plus an increment of 15 seconds per move. .

=Tournament Director=
 * Jaap van den Herik
 * Jan Krabbenbos Assistant TD

=See also=
 * 15th Computer Olympiad
 * CG 2010
 * WCCC 2010

=Publications=
 * Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik (**2010**). //The 1st World Computer-Software Championship.// ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4
 * Eric Hallsworth (**2010/2011**). //World Computer Chess Champs//. Selective Search 151, pp. 16, [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters
 * Eric Hallsworth (**2011**). //World Computer Software Champs - 2010//. Selective Search 152, pp. 5, [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Shredder gets Gold] by Peter Martan, CCC, October 02, 2010

=External Links=
 * [|18th World Computer Chess Championship (Software) - Kanazawa 2010 (ICGA Tournaments)]
 * [|Shredder is Computer Chess Software World Champion] from [|Shredder Computer Chess]

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