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		The Sixteenth World Computer Chess Championship took place from September 28 to October 5, 2008, Beijing Golden Century Golf Club, Qinglonghu Township, Fangshan District, Beijing, China, in conjunction with the 13th Computer Olympiad and the 6th International Conference on Computers and Games. After the disqualification of Rybka in June 2011, Hiarcs is World Computer Chess Champion 2008 [1] .
View from the hotelroom [2]

Final Standing

16th World Computer Chess Championship, Beijing, CN ^[3]

#	Program	CC	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	P
1 (-)	Rybka	US	9w1	5w1	4b½	7w1	6b1	10w1	8b1	2w1	3b½	8
2 (1)	Hiarcs	GB	4b½	7w1	6b1	10w1	8b1	9b½	3w1	1b0	5w1	7
3 (2)	Junior	IL	5b½	4w1	7b1	6w½	10b1	8w½	2b0	9b1	1w½	6
4 (3)	Cluster Toga	DE	2w½	3b0	1w½	5b½	9w1	7w1	6b0	10w1	8b1	5½
5 (4)	Shredder	DE	3w½	1b0	9w½	4w½	7b½	6w1	10b1	8w½	2b0	4½
6 (5)	Falcon	IL	10w1	8b0	2w0	3b½	1w0	5b0	4w1	7b½	9w1	4
7 (5)	Jonny	DE	8w1	2b0	3w0	1b0	5w½	4b0	9w1	6w½	10b1	4
8 (7)	Deep Sjeng	BE	7b0	6w1	10b1	9b½	2w0	3b½	1w0	5b½	4w0	3½
9 (8)	The Baron	NL	1b0	10w1	5b½	8w½	4b0	2w½	7b0	3w0	6b0	2½
10 (9)	Mobile Chess	CN	6b0	9b0	8w0	2b0	3w0	1b0	5w0	4b0	7w0	0

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Participants

16th World Computer Chess Championship, Beijing, CN

Program	CC	Authors, Operators	Hardware
Cluster Toga	DE	Kai Himstedt, Ulf Lorenz, Thomas Gaksch, Clemens Keck, Fabien Letouzey, Timo Klaustermeyer	Cluster, 24 cores
Deep Sjeng	BE	Gian-Carlo Pascutto	Intel Core 2, 4 x 2.8GHz
Falcon	IL	Omid David, Erdogan Günes	Intel Core 2, 2 x 2.1GHz
Hiarcs	GB	Mark Uniacke, Harvey Williamson, Sebastian Böhme	Intel Skulltrail, 8 x 4GHz
Jonny	DE	Johannes Zwanzger	Cluster, 16 cores
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky, Alon Greenfeld	Intel Dunnington, 12 x 2.67GHz
Mobile Chess	CN	Huang Chen	Nokia 6120c
Rybka	US	Vasik Rajlich, Larry Kaufman, Jeroen Noomen, Hans van der Zijden	Intel 40-core (5x2x4) Harpertown cluster
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi	Intel Core 2, 8 x 3.16GHz
The Baron	NL	Richard Pijl, Arturo Ochoa	AMD Opteron 270, 4 x 2GHz

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Photos

Prize Ceremony 1

David Levy, Hans van der Zijden, Harvey Williamson, Amir Ban, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Xinhe Xu [4]

Prize Ceremony 2

December 2011: ICGA President David Levy presents the Shannon Trophy to Mark Uniacke [5]

Publications

• Omid David (2008). The 16th World Computer-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3
• Omid David (2008). The 16th World Computer Speed-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3
• Eric Hallsworth (2008). The World Computer Chess Championships, Beijing 2008. Selective Search 139, pp. 6, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, amazon
  
  Chapter 16: 2008: Rybka Retains Title at the 16th WCCC

Forum Posts

• Computer Chess World Championship 2008 Hiarcs scores 7/9 by Harvey Williamson, Hiarcs Forum, September 06, 2008, covers the 16th WCCC with reports and pictures
• Rybka @ 16th WCCC in Beijing by Vasik Rajlich, Rybka Forum, October 04, 2008
• WCCC 16th 2008 (PGN complete) by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, October 05, 2008

External Links

• 16th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
• Rybka wins World Computer Chess Championship ChessBase News, October 06, 2008
• WCCC China 2008, Hiarcs site
• Computerschach-WM in Peking by Johannes Zwanzger, October 1, 2008, hosted by Schachclub Forchheim (German)

References

1. ^ Rybka disqualified and banned from World Computer Chess Championships | ChessVibes by Peter Doggers, June 29, 2011 » ICGA Investigations
2. ^ Computerschach-WM in Peking by Johannes Zwanzger, October 1, 2008, hosted by Schachclub Forchheim (German)
3. ^ 16th World Computer Chess Championship - Beijing 2008 (ICGA Tournaments)
4. ^ Index of /sebi/WCCC-Beijing-2008 pictures by Sebastian Böhme
5. ^ Computer Chess World Championship 2008 Hiarcs wins! by Harvey Williamson, Hiarcs Forum, December 16, 2011

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