The First World Computer Chess Championship took place from August 5 to August 8, 1974, in Hotel Birger-Jarl, Stockholm, Sweden under the auspices of IFIP. It was a four round swiss tournament with 13 participants. Kaissa was the sole winner with 4 out of 4.
In August 1974 the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) held the first large-scale international chess tournament for chess computers. The event was held in Stockholm and lasted 4 rounds and 4 days. The tournament director was International Master David Levy.
Kaissa won the first World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm. Thirteen computers from eight nations participated in the first world computer chess championship. Kaissa had the largest book of stored openings (10,000 positions) than any other competing program. Kaissa could not run on a Stackholm ICL machine because of the special Soviet operating system, so it ran on a machine in Moscow via a telephone link.
Kaissa played Ostrich in the last round. A win for Ostrich would have given Ostrich a tie for first place. Ostrich missed two winning moves (one was a force mate in 6 moves) and lost the game. The forced mate by Ostrich involved a piece sacrifice which the program was unable to make.
In round 1, Kaissa mated Frantz in 34 moves. In round 2, Kaissa defeated Tech II in 33 moves (missing a mate in 1). In round 3, Kaissa mated CHAOS in 36 moves. In round 4, Kaissa mated Ostrich in 67 moves. Earlier, Kaissa missed a forced perpetual check. Kaissa defeated 3 American entries and 1 Canadian entry to become world champion.
After the tournament, Kaissa and Chess 4.0 played in an exhibition game to determine which program was stronger. The game was adjudicated a draw after 65 moves in a rook vs rook and knight pawnless endgame. Chess 4.0 had missed a winning move earlier.
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Final Standing
1st World Computer Chess Championship 1974, Stockholm SE [2]Participants
Fred Swartz, William Toikka, Joe Winograd
Anatoly Uskov, Georgy Adelson-Velsky
John Birmingham, John Waldron
Ron Hansen, Jim Parry
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Photos & Games
Photos courtesy of Monroe Newborn [4] .Chess 4.0 - Ribbit
Tech 2 - Kaissa
CHAOS - Chess 4.0
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from KAISSA by Bill Wall [6]Kaissa won the first World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm. Thirteen computers from eight nations participated in the first world computer chess championship. Kaissa had the largest book of stored openings (10,000 positions) than any other competing program. Kaissa could not run on a Stackholm ICL machine because of the special Soviet operating system, so it ran on a machine in Moscow via a telephone link.
Kaissa played Ostrich in the last round. A win for Ostrich would have given Ostrich a tie for first place. Ostrich missed two winning moves (one was a force mate in 6 moves) and lost the game. The forced mate by Ostrich involved a piece sacrifice which the program was unable to make.
In round 1, Kaissa mated Frantz in 34 moves. In round 2, Kaissa defeated Tech II in 33 moves (missing a mate in 1). In round 3, Kaissa mated CHAOS in 36 moves. In round 4, Kaissa mated Ostrich in 67 moves. Earlier, Kaissa missed a forced perpetual check. Kaissa defeated 3 American entries and 1 Canadian entry to become world champion.
After the tournament, Kaissa and Chess 4.0 played in an exhibition game to determine which program was stronger. The game was adjudicated a draw after 65 moves in a rook vs rook and knight pawnless endgame. Chess 4.0 had missed a winning move earlier.
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Appendix I. The First World Computer Chess Championship
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