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		The Fifteenth World Computer Chess Championship took place from June 11 to 18, 2007, at Amsterdam Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the Computer Games Workshop 2007 and the 12th Computer Olympiad. The three main sponsors IBM, SARA Computing Networks (since 2013 SURFsara), and NCF (Foundation of National Computing Facilities) supported the ICGA events in the framework of their opening festivities of their new Huygens supercomputer, taken into operation on June 13, 2007 by the mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen [1] After the disqualification of Rybka in June 2011, Zappa is World Computer Chess Champion 2007.
Amsterdam 2007 [2]

Final Standing

15th World Computer Chess Championship 2007, Amsterdam, NL ^[3]

#	Program	CC	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	P
1 (-)	Rybka [4]	US	11b1	12b1	2w½	3b½	7w1	10b1	9w1	6b1	8w1	4b1	5w1	10
2 (1)	Zappa	US/TR	5b½	11w1	1b½	12b1	3w1	7b½	10w1	9b1	6w½	8b1	4w1	9
3 (2)	Loop	DE	4b½	5w0	11b1	1w½	2b0	12b1	7w1	10b1	9w½	6b1	8w1	7½
4 (3)	GridChess	DE	3w½	7b1	10w½	9b1	6w½	8b½	12w1	5w1	11b1	1w0	2b0	7
5 (3)	Shredder	DE	2w½	3b1	7w½	10b1	9w½	6b½	8w1	4b0	12w1	11w1	1b0	7
6 (5)	Deep Sjeng	BE	10w½	9b1	12w1	8w½	4b½	5w½	11b0	1w0	2b½	3w0	7b½	6
7 (6)	Jonny	DE	8b1	4w0	5b½	11w1	1b0	2w½	3b0	12b1	10w½	9b0	6w½	5
8 (7)	Diep	NL	7w0	10b½	9w1	6b½	12w1	4w½	5b0	11w1	1b0	2w0	3b0	4½
9 (8)	The Baron	NL	12w1	6w0	8b0	4w0	5b½	11w0	1b0	2w0	3b½	7w1	10b1	4
10 (9)	IsiChess	DE	6b½	8w½	4b½	5w0	11b½	1w0	2b0	3w0	7b½	12b1	9w0	3½
11 (10)	The King	NL	1w0	2w0	3w0	7b0	10w½	9b1	6w0	8b0	4w0	5b0	12w1	2½
12 (11)	Micro-Max	NL	9b0	1w0	6b0	2w0	8b0	3w0	4b0	7w0	5b0	10w0	11b0	0

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Participants

15th World Computer Chess Championship 2007, Amsterdam, NL

Program	CC	Authors, Operators	Hardware
Deep Sjeng	BE	Gian-Carlo Pascutto	Intel Xeon X5355
Diep	NL	Vincent Diepeveen, Arturo Ochoa	AMD Opteron quad-core 2.4Ghz
GridChess	DE	Kai Himstedt, Ulf Lorenz, Thomas Gaksch, Fabien Letouzey, Robert Hyatt	Cluster
IsiChess	DE	Gerd Isenberg	AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.2 GHz
Jonny	DE	Johannes Zwanzger	Intel Core2Duo 3.4GHz, 1 GB RAM
Loop	DE	Fritz Reul, Clemens Keck	Intel Kentsfield, 3.2-3.4 GHz; Woodcrest, 3 GHz
Micro-Max	NL	Harm Geert Muller
Rybka	US	Vasik Rajlich, Larry Kaufman, Jeroen Noomen, Hans van der Zijden [5]	Intel Xeon X5355, 8 GB RAM
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi
The Baron	NL	Richard Pijl
The King	NL	Johan de Koning
Zappa	US/TR	Anthony Cozzie, Erdogan Günes, Maarten Schadd

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Photos

Tournament room - SMK and Johannes Zwanzger playing ... chess, Jos Uiterwijk kibitzing [6]
Deep Sjeng - Micro-Max [7], Gian-Carlo Pascutto amazed by HGM's source code [8]

See also

• 12th Computer Olympiad
• CGW 2007
• Group Photo

Publications

• Jeroen Noomen, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik (2007). The 15th World Computer Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2
• Hans Secelle. Eric van Reem (2007). Golden Summer for RYBKA. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3
• Eric Hallsworth (2007). The 15th ICGA World Computer Chess Championship, Amsterdam, June 2007. Selective Search 131, pp. 18, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• Peter Vossen (2007). Computer-WM Amsterdam. Computerschach und Spiele Online, pdf1 ^[9], pdf2, pdf3, pdf4, pdf (German)
• Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, amazon
  
  Chapter 13: 2007: Rybka Moves to Top at the 15th WCCC

Forum Posts

• WCCC 2007 by Harvey Williamson, CCC, March 25, 2007
• 12th Computer Olympiad by ICGABOK, CCC, April 05, 2007
• The 15th World Computer-Chess Championship by ICGABOK, CCC, April 07, 2007
• RULES FOR THE 15th WORLD COMPUTER-CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP by ICGABOK, CCC, April 18, 2007
• Deadline Extension Early registration WCCC by ICGABOK, CCC, May 21, 2007
• Participants WCCC 2007 by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, May 21, 2007
• Who will be next WCCC champion ? by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, June 11, 2007
• WCCC 2007 - Rybka is Computer Chess Champion 2007! by Edward German, CCC, June 18, 2007
• Rybka @ Amsterdam 15th WCCC by Vasik Rajlich, Rybka Forum, June 19, 2007

External Links

• 15th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
• Rybka wins the 15th ICGA Computer World Championship, ChessBase News, June 19, 2007
• Mit "Jonny" muss gerechnet werden by Johannes Zwanzger, hosted by Schachclub Forchheim (German)
• Rybka gewinnt 15. Computer-WM by Eric van Reem, ChessBase News, June 18, 2007 (German)
• Marcus Miller - Come Together, Paradiso, Amsterdam 2007, YouTube Video
  Poogie Bell, Bobby Sparks, Keith Anderson, Patches Stewart, Grégoire Maret
  

References

1. ^ Jaap van den Herik, Mark Winands, Johanna Hellemons (2007). The 12th Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2
2. ^ Amsterdam 2007 - ICGA Tournaments
3. ^ 15th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
4. ^ After the disqualification of Rybka in June 2011, Zappa is World Computer Chess Champion 2007
5. ^ Rybka @ Amsterdam 15th WCCC by Vasik Rajlich, Rybka Forum, June 19, 2007
6. ^ Rybka wins the 15th ICGA Computer World Championship, ChessBase News, June 19, 2007
7. ^ Amsterdam 2007, Chess, Round 3, Game 1 from the ICGA Tournament Database
8. ^ Amsterdam 2007 WCCC, Olympiad and Workshop / Photos (no longer available)
9. ^ Part 1 has an interview with Chrilly Donninger about Hydra

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