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The 1992 QMW Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship was held August 3-7, 1992 at Queen Mary and Westfield College of London, initiated and organized by Don Beal. All games were played automatically.
Crest of QMW [1]

Announcement

by Don Beal, May 15, 1992 [2] :
The QMW "uniform platform" or "software intelligence" Computer Chess Tournament will take place 3-7 Aug 1992 in London.

Anyone who has written a chess program can enter. The program has to be sent to QMW prior to the tournament - but attendance of authors at the tournament is optional, as the play will be automated, and the tournament organisers will initiate each game.

Programs will run on identical machines, running at the same clock speed, and with the same operating system underlying the chess program. There will be two divisions (1) programs written for 386 IBM-PC compatibles under MSDOS (will be run as binaries) (2) programs written in C (will be compiled using the same C compiler and run on UNIX machines (68030 cpu)). (The C source will be treated as confidential and compiled without being examined or kept.)

Programmers must incorporate into their programs a simple software interface that enables automatic transmission and reception of moves from the other program. The communications software is provided by the organisers.

C-Language Division

16 MHz 68030 UNIX workstations.

Participants

[3]
Program
 CC
 Authors
Ares
 NL
 Frans van Gool, Erik Leenders
GNU Chess 3.1
 US
 Stuart Cracraft, John Stanback
NotChess
 GB
 Andy Walker
Phoenix
 CA
 Jonathan Schaeffer
ProChess
 NL
 Tom Pronk

Final Standing

[4]
#
 Program
 CC
 _1_
 _2_
 _3_
 _4_
 _5_
 P
1
 GNU Chess 3.1
 US
 X
 2
 1½
 2
 2
 7½
2
 Phoenix
 CA
 0
 X
 1½
 2
 2
 5½
3
 ProChess
 NL
 ½
 ½
 X
 2
 2
 5
4
 Ares
 NL
 0
 0
 0
 X
 2
 2
5
 NotChess
 GB
 0
 0
 0
 0
 X
 0

PC Division

16 MHz 80386 PC-clones, running MS-DOS.

Participants

[5]
Program
 CC
 Authors
GNU Chess 3.1
 US
 Stuart Cracraft, John Stanback
MChess
 US
 Marty Hirsch
Now
 US
 Mark Lefler
Pawnder
 US
 Truman Collins
Schach 3.0
 DE
 Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair

Final Standing

[6]
#
 Program
 CC
 _1_
 _2_
 _3_
 _4_
 _5_
 P
1
 MChess
 US
 X
 1½
 2
 2
 2
 7½
2
 Now
 US
 ½
 X
 1
 1½
 2
 5
3
 GNU Chess 3.1
 US
 0
 1
 X
 2
 2
 5
4
 Schach 3.0
 DE
 0
 ½
 0
 X
 2
 2½
5
 Pawnder
 US
 0
 0
 0
 0
 X
 0

Tournament Organizer


Reports

  • Don Beal (1992). The 1992 QMW Uniform-Platform Autoplay Computer-Chess Tournament. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3

Forum Posts


External Links


References

  1. ^ Queen Mary, University of London from Wikipedia
  2. ^ computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, May 15, 1992
  3. ^ QMW uniform-platform computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, August 18, 1992
  4. ^ QMW "Uniform Platform" Computer-Chess Tournament from the old CSVN site
  5. ^ QMW uniform-platform computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, August 18, 1992
  6. ^ QMW "Uniform Platform" Computer-Chess Tournament from the old CSVN site

What links here?

Page Date Edited
Ares Jun 9, 2016
Don Beal Jul 27, 2017
GNU Chess Jan 21, 2018
ICGA Journal Dec 21, 2017
MChess Feb 26, 2018
Pawnder Feb 8, 2012
Prochess Jan 7, 2016
Schach Jan 7, 2016
Stuart Cracraft May 19, 2017
Tom Pronk Jan 7, 2016
Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship Mar 25, 2011
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