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The first Chess Programmers Tournament,
was initiated and organized in June 2008, by Richard Pijl, author of the engines The Baron and Crashtest Dummy (CTD). It took place in De Bouwhoeve, Hoogstraten-Wortel, Belgium. Nine participants, six round swiss, time-control was 90 minutes per side and game.

Final Standing

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	SOS	SoDOS	G
1	Deep Sjeng	BE	8w1	4b½	2w1	3b1	5w1	7b1	5½	18	16	6
2	Diep	NL	7b1	5w½	1b0	6w1	4w1	3b½	4	21	12¼	6
3	CTD	NL	bye	7w1	5b½	1w0	8w1	2w½	4	19½	8¾	5
4	Shredder	DE	6b1	1w½	9b1	5w½	2b0	8w1	4	17½	9¼	6
5	HansDamf	DE	9w1	2b½	3w½	4b½	1b0	bye	3½	20½	7¾	5
6	Joker	NL	4w0	8b1	7w½	2b0	bye	9b1	3½	15	4½	5
7	Brutus	NL	2w0	3b0	6b½	bye	9w1	1w0	2½	18½	3	5
8	Ayito	GB	1b0	6w0	bye	9w1	3b0	4b0	2	18	1¼	5
9	Marquis	CH	5b0	bye	4w0	8b0	7b0	6w0	1	14	¼	5

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
• SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

Participants

Program	Author	Origin		Hardware
Ayito	Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz	Lincoln,	UK	AMD dual-core Turion 64 X2
Brutus	Stephan Vermeire	Amersfoort ,	The Netherlands	AMD dual-core Athlon 64 X2 2.4 Ghz
CTD	Richard Pijl	Minderhout ,	Belgium	AMD dual-core Opteron 270
Deep Sjeng	Gian-Carlo Pascutto	Ghent ,	Belgium	Intel quad-core Q6600
Diep	Vincent Diepeveen	Veenendaal ,	The Netherlands	AMD dual-core Opteron 285
HansDamf	Gerd Isenberg	Hattingen ,	Germany	AMD dual-core Athlon 64 X2 2.2GHz
Joker	Harm Geert Muller	Amsterdam ,	The Netherlands	Intel dual-core Core 2 duo 2.4Ghz (1 core)
Marquis	Roland Marquis, Roland Ekström	Basel ,	Switzerland	Macbook with win32
Shredder	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen	Düsseldorf ,	Germany	AMD dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4200+

Games

• Plain PGN-text

The game Brutus - Deep Sjeng, round 6, was interrupted by a short power breakdown and had to restart from the board position. Stefan Meyer-Kahlen accidently hit a power switch while plugging off his computer from a multiway connector. The continuation of that game, the pgn-viewer is not able to represent:

[Event "Chess Programmers Tournament 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.06.29"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Brutus"]
[Black "Deep Sjeng"]
[Result "0-1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "4r3/1p2r2k/p1pn2p1/3n1p1p/1PBP3P/4PPP1/3B1K2/R3R3 w - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "236"]
[EventDate "2008.??.??"]
[TimeControl "1440"]
 
{-------------- . . . . r . . . . p . . r . . k p . p n . . p . . . . n . p .
p . P B P . . . P . . . . P P P . . . . B . K . . R . . . R . . . white to
play -------------- -------------- r . b q k b n r . p . p p p p p p . p . . .
. . . n . . . . . . . P B P . . . P . . . . P P P . . . . B . K . . R . . . R .
. . white to play --------------} 1. Bb3 {+0.67/16} Nb6 2. Rac1 {+0.69/16} Nb5
3. Rc5 {+0.67/16} Kg7 4. Rd1 {+0.67/14} Nd7 5. Rc2 {+0.67/17} Kh7 6. Ra1 {
+0.67/15} Nf6 7. Rc4 {+0.67/15} Kh8 8. Re1 {+0.66/16} Nd5 9. Rc5 {+0.67/16}
Nbc7 10. Bc4 {+0.66/15} Kh7 11. Ra5 {+0.67/15} Nb5 12. Ra2 {+0.64/14} Nb6 13.
Bb3 {+0.65/17} Kg7 14. Raa1 {+0.65/16} Nd5 15. Bc4 {+0.68/15} Nd6 16. Ba2 {
+0.67/16} Nb6 17. Rac1 {+0.67/15} Nb5 18. Rc5 {+0.15/15} Na4 19. Rc2 {+0.17/17}
Na3 20. Rcc1 {+0.19/17} Nb2 21. Rc3 {+0.27/16} Nb5 22. Rb3 {+0.10/16} Nc4 23.
Bc1 {-0.03/16} Nb6 24. Rd3 {+0.60/16} Nd5 25. Bd2 {+0.60/16} Re6 26. Rc1 {
+0.60/16} Kf8 27. Rc2 {+0.62/15} Ke7 28. Bb3 {+0.56/15} Kd7 29. Rc1 {+0.53/16}
Rf6 30. Kg1 {+0.52/16} Rf7 31. Bc4 {+0.53/16} Rfe7 32. Kf2 {+0.52/16} Nd6 33.
Bb3 {+0.43/14} Rf8 34. Kg1 {+0.34/14} Nb5 35. Ba2 {+0.51/15} Rfe8 36. Kf2 {
+0.38/16} Kd6 37. Bc4 {+0.50/15} Re6 38. Rb3 {+0.48/14} Kd7 39. Bxb5 {+0.39/16}
axb5 40. Ra1 {+0.42/17} Nb6 41. Rd3 {+0.38/16} Kc7 42. Rc3 {+0.39/17} Rd8 43.
Bc1 {+0.42/15} Nc4 44. Rc2 {+0.32/17} Rde8 45. Re2 {+0.29/17} Kb6 46. Raa2 {
+0.23/17} Rf8 47. Rec2 {+0.30/16} Re7 48. Ra1 {+0.26/15} Rfe8 49. Rc3 {+0.14/16
} Re6 50. Ra2 {+0.19/16} Rf6 51. Rb3 {+0.22/16} Kc7 52. Rd3 {+0.08/15} Rfe6 53.
Rc3 {+0.38/15} R6e7 54. Ra1 {+0.30/15} Rd8 55. Rc2 {+0.26/14} Re6 56. Ra7 {
+0.26/15} Nb6 57. Rca2 {+0.00/14} Na4 58. Kg2 {-0.33/15} Kb8 59. Ra5 {-0.36/17}
b6 60. R5xa4 {-0.50/17} bxa4 61. Rxa4 {-0.50/16} Re7 62. Kf2 {-0.61/15} Ra7 63.
Rxa7 {-0.75/17} Kxa7 64. Ke2 {-0.87/19} Ka6 65. Kd3 {-0.90/19} Kb5 66. Bd2 {
-1.07/19} c5 67. bxc5 {-1.07/19} bxc5 68. Bc3 {-1.07/18} c4+ 69. Kc2 {-1.07/21}
Re8 70. Bd2 {-1.07/20} Kc6 71. Kc3 {-1.07/21} Kd5 72. Bc1 {-1.07/21} Rb8 73.
Kd2 {-1.07/21} Ra8 74. Kc3 {-1.07/20} Ra2 75. Bb2 {-1.07/21} Ra7 76. Kc2 {
-1.07/20} Rb7 77. Bc3 {-1.07/21} Rb3 78. Bd2 {-1.07/21} Rd3 79. Bc1 {-1.07/21}
Kc6 80. Bd2 {-1.07/21} Kb6 81. Bc1 {-1.07/21} Kc7 82. Bd2 {-1.07/21} Kc6 83.
Bc1 {-1.07/21} Kb5 84. Bd2 {-1.07/21} Ka4 85. Bc1 {-1.07/20} Kb4 86. Bd2+ {
-1.07/21} Ka3 87. Bc1+ {-1.07/21} Ka4 88. Bd2 {-1.07/21} Kb5 89. Bc1 {-1.07/21}
Ka5 90. Bd2+ {-1.07/20} Ka6 91. Bc1 {-1.07/21} Kb7 92. Bd2 {-1.07/21} Ka7 93.
Bc1 {-1.07/20} Ka6 94. Bd2 {-1.07/21} Kb7 95. Bc1 {-1.07/22} Kc8 96. Bd2 {
-1.07/21} Kd7 97. Bc1 {-1.07/21} Ke6 98. Bd2 {-1.07/20} Kf6 99. Bc1 {-1.07/21}
g5 100. hxg5+ {-1.64/14} Kxg5 101. Kb1 {-2.45/17} f4 102. e4 {-3.74/15} Rd1
103. gxf4+ {-3.25/16} Kf6 104. e5+ {-5.93/16} Ke6 105. f5+ {-10.29/16} Kxf5
106. f4 {-13.11/16} h4 107. d5 {-12.77/14} h3 108. e6 {-18.78/12} h2 109. e7 {
-999.73/11} h1=Q 110. e8=Q {-999.99/10} Rxc1+ 111. Kb2 {-999.99/9} Rb1+ 112.
Kc3 {-999.99/8} Qc1+ 113. Kd4 Qb2+ 114. Kc5 {-999.99/6} Qb6+ 115. Kxc4 Rb4+
116. Kc3 {-999.99/4} Qd4+ 117. Kc2 Rb2+ 118. Kc1 Qd2# {black mates} 0-1

Tournament Organizer

• Richard Pijl

Forum Posts

• Chess Programmer's Tournament Started by Richard Pijl, CCC, June 28, 2008
• Programmer's Tournament Report by Gerd Isenberg, CCC, July 02, 2008

External Links

• Tournament site

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