The published rules provided for participation in an open and commercial category. The organizers had hoped that by sponsoring a purely commercial section, they could provide the computer chess buying public with a clear indication of which is the strongest commercially available chess machine. In doing this, however, they wanted to avoid what had happened after previous microcomputer chess tournaments when misleading advertising claims were made by manufacturers or by their representatives. The lack of a precise definition for the commercial group became a source for a great deal of controversy, and soured many of the participants, the organizers, and the ICCA observers on this type of tournament [11] . The requirement for the manufacturers section for commercially available chess computers, forced Hegener & Glaser to withdraw their intended entry Mephisto II since commercial production would not begin until November, and Hegener & Glaser chose not to enter in the open group as well. Finally, the Applied Concepts personal withdrew their programs after some rounds from both sections of the tournament, due to a bug in their Capablanca module of the Great Game Machine[12] .
László Lindner (1981). 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft in Travemünde, veranstaltet von Horten-AG, Düsseldorf. Rochade, 10-1981 (German)
Horten AG, Presseabteilung - Das Organisationkomitee (1981). Die Geschichte der Schachcomputer. Ein Beitrag anlaßlich der 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft. Schach-Magazin 64, 10-1981 (German)
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The tournament organizers were Gerhard Piel, an architect and collector of computer chess machines, Frederic Friedel, a science journalist and Dieter Steinwender, a computer scientist. Tournament director was Horst Metzing [3] of the German Chess Federation. The ICCA along with the FIDE sanctioned the tournament as a world championship, ICCA observers were Ben Mittman and Ken Thompson.
Table of Contents
Final Standing
[5]Open Group
[6]Commercial Group
[7]Playoff
[9]Participants
[10]Open Group
David Levy, Kevin O’Connell
David Levy, Kevin O’Connell
Commercial Group
David Levy, Kevin O’Connell
Commercial Controversy
The published rules provided for participation in an open and commercial category. The organizers had hoped that by sponsoring a purely commercial section, they could provide the computer chess buying public with a clear indication of which is the strongest commercially available chess machine. In doing this, however, they wanted to avoid what had happened after previous microcomputer chess tournaments when misleading advertising claims were made by manufacturers or by their representatives. The lack of a precise definition for the commercial group became a source for a great deal of controversy, and soured many of the participants, the organizers, and the ICCA observers on this type of tournament [11] . The requirement for the manufacturers section for commercially available chess computers, forced Hegener & Glaser to withdraw their intended entry Mephisto II since commercial production would not begin until November, and Hegener & Glaser chose not to enter in the open group as well. Finally, the Applied Concepts personal withdrew their programs after some rounds from both sections of the tournament, due to a bug in their Capablanca module of the Great Game Machine [12] .Photos & Games
Fidelity X - Philidor X
Playoff
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Line-up: Thijs van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Bert Ruiter, Colin Allen
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