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		The Eighth World Computer Chess Championship took place from May 25-30, 1995, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong - China. Fritz on a 90 MHz P5 won the title after a play-off versus Star Socrates, after already winning again Deep Blue Prototype in round five.
Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, CUHK [1]

Final Standing

8th World Computer Chess Championship 1995, Shatin ^{[2] [3]}

#	Program	CC	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	SOS	SoDOS	Play-off
1	Fritz	NL	11b0	16w1	19b1	14w1	3b1	4	12	9½	2b1
2	Star Socrates	US	3b0	14w1	23b1	9w1	8b1	4	12½	9	1w0
3	Deep Blue Prototype	US	2w1	8b1	12w1	6b½	1w0	3½	16½	11
4	Frenchess	FR	6w½	7b0	17b1	12w1	14b1	3½	12½	8
5	Junior	IL	8b0	15w½	24b1	18w1	11b1	3½	10½	6½
6	WChess	US	4b½	10w1	11w½	3w½	7b½	3	15½	9¼
7	Chess Genius	GB	10b½	4w1	9b½	11w½	6w½	3	15	9¼
8	HiTech	US	5w1	3w0	16b1	15b1	2w0	3	15	7½
9	Rebel	NL	13w1	11b½	7w½	2b0	15w1	3	14	7¼
10	Zugzwang	DE	7w½	6b0	22b½	16w1	17w1	3	11½	6¼
11	Schach 3.0	DE	1w1	9w½	6b½	7b½	5w0	2½	16½	8½
12	Cheiron	DE	22b1	24w1	3b0	4b0	13w½	2½	12	3¾
13	Virtua Chess	FR	9b0	17w1	14b0	23w1	12b½	2½	10½	4¼
14	DarkThought	DE	18w1	2b0	13w1	1b0	4w0	2	16	4½
15	SOS	DE	19b1	5b½	18w½	8w0	9b0	2	13½	4¾
16	Ferret	US	20w1	1b0	8w0	10b0	21w1	2	13½	3½
17	Zeus 3.0	ES	21w1	13b0	4w0	19w1	10b0	2	12½	3½
18	Pandix	HU	14b0	21w1	15b½	5b0	20w½	2	11	3½
19	Phoenix	CA	15w0	20b1	1w0	17b0	23w1	2	11	3
20	Ulysses	DE	16b0	19w0	21b½	24w1	18b½	2	8½	2¾
21	Nightmare	DE	17b0	18b0	20w½	22w1	16b0	1½	9½	2½
22	Gandalf	DK	12w0	23b½	10w½	21b0	24w½	1½	9	2½
23	LChess	NL	24b½	22w½	2w0	13b0	19b0	1	11	1¼
24	Woodpusher	GB	23w½	12b0	5w0	20b0	22b½	1	10½	1¼

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

Participants

8th World Computer Chess Championship 1995, Shatin ^[4]

Program	CC	Authors	Hardware
Cheiron	DE	Ulf Lorenz	Pentium 90 MHz
Chess Genius	GB	Richard Lang	Pentium 90 MHz
DarkThought	DE	Ernst A. Heinz, Peter Gillgasch, Markus Gille	DEC Alpha
Deep Blue Prototype	US	Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane	IBM RS/6000 and 14 chess engine processors
Ferret	US	Bruce Moreland	Pentium 90 MHz
Frenchess	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill, Jean-Luc Seret, Michel Gondran	Cray T3D 128 DEC Alpha 21064 [5]
Fritz	NL	Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist, Cock de Gorter	Pentium 90 MHz
Gandalf	DK	Steen Suurballe	Pentium 90 MHz
HiTech	US	Hans Berliner, Chris McConnell	Sun-4, special purpose hardware
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky	Pentium 90 MHz
LChess	NL	Lex Loep	Pentium 90 MHz
Nightmare	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski	Pentium 90 MHz
Pandix	HU	Gyula Horváth, Zsuzsa Horváth, Csaba Szûts	Pentium 90 MHz
Phoenix	CA	Jonathan Schaeffer	HP 9000/720
Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder	Pentium 90 MHz
Schach 3.0	DE	Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair	Pentium 90 MHz
SOS	DE	Rudolf Huber	Pentium 90 MHz
Star Socrates	US	Don Dailey, Chris Joerg, Bradley Kuszmaul, Charles Leiserson, Robert Blumofe, Matteo Frigo, Larry Kaufman, Keith H. Randall, Rolf Riesen, Yuli Zhou	1824 node (2 x i860) Intel Paragon, Sandia National Laboratories
Ulysses	DE	Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann	SPARCstation 10 60MHz
Virtua Chess	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill	Pentium 90 MHz
WChess	US	David Kittinger, James Parker [6]	Pentium 120 MHz
Woodpusher	GB	John Hamlen	Pentium 90 MHz
Zeus 3.0	ES	Gerardo Castaño Recio	Pentium 90 MHz
Zugzwang	DE	Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz	GC-Powerplus, 96 x PowerPC 601

Photos & Games

Deep Blue Prototype - Fritz 0-1

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[Event "WCCC 1995"]
[Site "Chinese University HKG"]
[Date "1995.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Deep Blue Prototype"]
[Black "Fritz"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5
9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.Bd3 Be6 12.Qh5 f4 13.O-O Rg8 14.Kh1 Rg6 15.Qd1 Rc8
16.c4 Qh4 17.g3 Qh3 18.Qd2 f3 19.Rg1 Rh6 20.Qxh6 Qxh6 21.cxb5 Bxd5 22.exd5
Nb4 23.Bf5 Rc5 24.bxa6 Nxa6 25.Nc2 Qd2 26.Ne1 Rxd5 27.Nxf3 Qxf2 28.Be4 Ra5
29.Rg2 Qe3 30.Re1 Qh6 31.Bc6+ Kd8 32.a3 f5 33.Rc2 Rc5 34.Rxc5 Nxc5 35.Rf1
Be7 36.a4 f4 37.gxf4 Qxf4 38.Rg1 Nxa4 39.b4 Qxb4 0-1

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : https://en.lichess.org/vTaSbJj1

Star Socrates - Fritz 0-1

Playoff, Star Socrates - Fritz, Chris Joerg (?), Don Dailey, Frans Morsch, and Mathias Feist @ 26... Nd5 [8] [9]

[Event "WCCC 1995"]
[Site "Chinesse University HKG"]
[Date "1995.05.30"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Star Socrates"]
[Black "Fritz"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Bc5 5.Nxe5 Nxe5 6.d4 a6 7.Ba4 Nxe4 8.Qe2 Be7
9.Qxe4 Ng6 10.f4 O-O 11.Bb3 Bf6 12.Nc3 c6 13.Qd3 d5 14.Be3 b6 15.f5 Ne7 16.Rf3
c5 17.dxc5 d4 18.Rd1 Bb7 19.Bxd4 Bxf3 20.gxf3 Bxd4+ 21.Qxd4 Qxd4+ 22.Rxd4 bxc5
23.Rf4 Rac8 24.Bc4 Rc6 25.Ne4 Rd8 26.Kf2 Nd5 27.Rg4 Kf8 28.Rh4 Nf6 29.Ke3 h6
30.b3 Rd1 31.a3 Ra1 32.a4 Rd1 33.Bd3 Ke7 34.Ke2 Rg1 35.Rh3 Nd5 36.Rg3 Rh1 37.Rxg7
Rxh2+ 38.Kf1 Kf8 39.Rg3 Rh5 40.Kf2 Nb4 41.f6 Nd5 42.Rg1 Nxf6 43.Rd1 Re5 44.Nd2
Nd5 45.Nc4 Rg5 46.Be4 Nc3 47.Bxc6 Nxd1+ 48.Ke1 Nc3 49.f4 Rh5 50.Kd2 Nd5 51.Bb7
Ke7 52.Kc1 Nxf4 53.Bxa6 Rh2 54.Ne3 Ne2+ 55.Kb2 Nd4 56.Bc4 Nc6 57.Bb5 Na5 58.Nc4
Nxc4+ 59.Bxc4 f5 60.a5 Kd6 61.Kc3 h5 62.a6 Kc7 63.Be6 Rf2 64.a7 Kb7 65.Kd3 h4
66.a8=Q+ Kxa8 67.Ke3 Rxc2 68.Bxf5 Rc3+ 69.Kf2 Rxb3 70.Be4+ Ka7 71.Bd5 Rb2+
72.Kg1 h3 73.Be6 h2+ 74.Kh1 Ka6 75.Bd5 0-1

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : https://en.lichess.org/MAFG0PKl

Guest of Honour

• Robert Byrne

Tournament Director

• Michael Valvo

Booklet

• The 8th World Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf

Publications

• Hin-Kwok Tsang, Don Beal (1995). The 8th World Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2
• Hin-Kwok Tsang (1995). The 8th World Computer Chess Championships. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 2 pp. 10
• Roger Uzun (1995). Was it Luck? Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 2 pp. 21
• Fabian Mäser (1995). Fritz vs. Deep Blue: Opening Book vs, Opening Book. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 2 pp. 22
• Tim Mirabile (1995). More Fritz vs. Deep Blue: Opening Book vs, Opening Book. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 2 pp. 22
• Robert Hyatt (1995). Still more Fritz vs. Deep Blue: Opening Book vs, Opening Book. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 2 pp. 22
• Robert Hyatt (1995). The 8th WCCC - A Perspective. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 3+4 pp. 21
• Eric Hallsworth (1995). World Championship 1995 - Games and Round by Round Summary. Selective Search 59, pp. 11, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• John Hamlen (1995). 8th World Computer Chess Championship. Selective Search 59, pp. 21
• Larry Kaufman (1995). Does Fritz deserve to be World Champion? Selective Search 60, pp 3, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (1995). Internet Report. Selective Search 60, pp 8, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

Forum Posts

• World Computer Chess Championship by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, March 16, 1995
• WCCC round 1 PGN games (complete) by Steven J. Edwards, rec.games.chess, May 27, 1995
• WCCC round 2 PGN games by Steven J. Edwards, rec.games.chess, May 27, 1995
• WCCC round 3 PGN games by Steven J. Edwards, rec.games.chess, May 28, 1995
• WCCC round 4 PGN games by Steven J. Edwards, rec.games.chess, May 29, 1995
• Hongkong results! by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, rec.games.chess, May 29, 1995
• WCCC round 5 PGN games by Steven J. Edwards, rec.games.chess, May 30, 1995
• WCCC round 6 PGN game by Steven J. Edwards, rec.games.chess, May 31, 1995
• Comments on WCCC PGN gamescores by Steven J. Edwards, rec.games.chess, May 31, 1995
• Deep Thought /WCCC Round 5 vs Fritz by Robert Hyatt, rec.games.chess, May 31, 1995
• Deep Blue vs Kasparov, and some thoughts on 8th WCCC by Feng-Hsiung Hsu, rec.games.chess, June 05, 1995
• World Championship of Computers by Wolfgang Koehler, rgcc, July 04, 1995
• The blunders in 1995 chess programs, Deep Blue vs fritz by kgburcham, CCC, January 15, 2012

External Links

• 8th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database

References

1. ^ CUHK SHB, by Tlrmq, August 16 2009, Chinese University of Hong Kong from Wikipedia
2. ^ 8th World Computer Chess Championship - Shatin 1995 (ICGA Tournaments)
3. ^ World Computer Chess Championship - 8th WCCC - 1995 Hong Kong by Mark Weeks
4. ^ The 8th World Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
5. ^ Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill, Jean-Luc Seret and Michel Gondran (1995). Frenchess: A Cray T3D at the 8th World Computer Chess Championship, also as zipped postscript
6. ^ Re: Hello all by David Kittinger, CCC, May 02, 2012
7. ^ Shatin 1995 - Chess - Round 5 - Game 4 (ICGA Tournaments)
8. ^ Image by Jaap van den Herik, ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 81
9. ^ Shatin 1995 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)

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