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The First World Chess Software Championship took place from September 24 to October 2, 2010, at Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Kanazawa, Japan, in conjunction with the 18th World Computer Chess Championship, the 15th Computer Olympiad and the 7th Computer and Games conference. All events were hosted by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and organized by the ICGA ^[1]. Unified Hardware was based on Intel® Xeon® W3520, 8M Cache, 2.66 GHz, Quad-Core, Hyper-threading off ^[2]. The winner of the 2010 WCSC is Shredder, Rondo runner up a half point behind, and bronze for Thinker.

Final Standing

First World Chess Software Championship (WCSC) ^[3]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	total	SoDOS
1	Shredder	DE	bye	7w1	8b1	4w½	5b1	3b1	9w1	2w½	5b1	8
2	Rondo	US	3b½	8b1	7w1	9w1	4w1	6b1	5w½	1b½	bye	7½
3	Thinker	US	2w½	bye	6b½	5b1	7b1	1w0	8b1	9w1	4w½	6½
4	PandixBreakthrough	HU	8b1	6w½	9w1	1b½	2b0	5w½	7w1	bye	3b½	6	13¾
5	Deep Junior	IL	7b1	9b1	bye	3w0	8w1	4b½	2b½	6w1	1w0	6	12¾
6	Jonny	DE	9b1	4b½	3w½	8w1	1w0	2w0	bye	5b0	7b1	5
7	Darmenios	PL	5w0	1b0	2b0	bye	3w0	9b1	4w0	8w1	6w0	3
8	Fridolin	DE	4w0	2w0	1w0	6b0	5b0	bye	3w0	7b0	9b1	2
9	Hector for Chess	HU	6w0	5w0	4b0	2b0	bye	7w0	1b0	3b0	8w0	1

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

Photos

by Jan Krabbenbos ^[4]

Jaap van den Herik, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Christian Sommerfeld

Time control

The time limit for the WCSC will be such as to aim for a 2-hour playing session, namely all moves in 45 minutes plus an increment of 15 seconds per move. ^[5] .

Tournament Director

• Jaap van den Herik
• Jan Krabbenbos Assistant TD

See also

• 15th Computer Olympiad
• CG 2010
• WCCC 2010

Publications

• Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik (2010). The 1st World Computer-Software Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4
• Eric Hallsworth (2010/2011). World Computer Chess Champs. Selective Search 151, pp. 16, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• Eric Hallsworth (2011). World Computer Software Champs - 2010. Selective Search 152, pp. 5, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

Forum Posts

• Shredder gets Gold by Peter Martan, CCC, October 02, 2010

External Links

• 18th World Computer Chess Championship (Software) - Kanazawa 2010 (ICGA Tournaments)
• Shredder is Computer Chess Software World Champion from Shredder Computer Chess

References

1. ^ The JAIST 20th Anniversary Events with the ICGA
2. ^ Re: WCSC Kanazawa Unified Hardware by Clemens Keck, CSS Forum, September 25, 2010
3. ^ 18th World Computer Chess Championship (Software) - Kanazawa 2010 (ICGA Tournaments)
4. ^ Foto-impressie WCCC/WCSC Kanazawa, Japan by Jan Krabbenbos from the CSVN site
5. ^ World Computer-Chess Championship 2010, rules as pdf

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