The WCCC as well the Olympiad were held in the former residence of the Gouvernor of Limburg in the historic center of Maastricht, Bouillonstraat 1-3, which now belongs to the Maastricht University. Comments during the games as well as after round press conferences were given by the Dutch Journalist and International MasterHans Böhm[1] .The 10th WCCC was a tough duel between Junior and Shredder. Junior lost vs. Shredder in round four and had a great game against Donninger'sBrutus in round six, while Shredder lost no game but had three draws. Both programs therefor had 7½ points after nine rounds - two 15 minutes blitz playoff games were agreed to decide the tournament. Shredder lost the first one with White [2] and missed the opportunity to transpose into a winning pawn endgame in playoff game two [3] . Junior finally was the lucky but deserved winner.
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The WCCC as well the Olympiad were held in the former residence of the Gouvernor of Limburg in the historic center of Maastricht, Bouillonstraat 1-3, which now belongs to the Maastricht University. Comments during the games as well as after round press conferences were given by the Dutch Journalist and International Master Hans Böhm [1] .The 10th WCCC was a tough duel between Junior and Shredder. Junior lost vs. Shredder in round four and had a great game against Donninger's Brutus in round six, while Shredder lost no game but had three draws. Both programs therefor had 7½ points after nine rounds - two 15 minutes blitz playoff games were agreed to decide the tournament. Shredder lost the first one with White [2] and missed the opportunity to transpose into a winning pawn endgame in playoff game two [3] . Junior finally was the lucky but deserved winner.
Table of Contents
Final Standing
10th World Computer Chess Championship 2002, Maastricht NL [5]Participants
10th World Computer Chess Championship 2002, Maastricht NL [6]Photos
Special Events
Alterman Simul
As a special event, Grandmaster and Junior's opening book author Boris Alterman had the courage to play a simultaneous exhibition against 11 of the computer participants - he won from Insomniac, drew from Brutus, Goliath, NoonianChess and Shredder, and lost against Diep, Ikarus, IsiChess, ParSOS, Sjeng and one other program [10] .Nalimov Lecture
Eugene Nalimov, winner of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award and Guest of Honor at the 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, gave a well attended lecture about his endgame tablebases [11] .Tournament Director
See also
Publications
Chapter 3: 2002: Shredder Bows to Deep Junior at the 10th WCCC, page 47
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