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WMCCC 1980

GerdIsenberg — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 20:55:31 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 1st WMCCC London 1980
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		The First World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from September 04, 1980 to September 09, 1980, Cunard International Hotel, London, United Kingdom. This event is also known as the 3rd PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship or Personal Computer World Exhibition ^[1] , also the inofficial 1st European Microcomputer Chess Championship. Being held under the auspices of the ICCA and FIDE ^[2] , multiple entries from same authors were possible. Dan and Kathe Spracklen had five Sargon versions running in various computers, Chess Challenger ^[3] , Boris Experimental, Sargon 2.0, Sargon 2.5 Modular GS, and Sargon 2.5 Auto RB, and were just affiliated with Fidelity Electronics and primary authors of the winning entity Chess Challenger. Remarkably, Chess Challenger won its last three round games versus three other Sargon programs, and was quite lucky as already in round 2 versus Viktor.
Cunard International Hotel, today Novotel London West ^[4]

Final Standing

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#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Chess Challenger	US	12w1	10b1	2w1	7b1	5w1	5	13	13
2	Boris Experimental	US	14b1	8w1	1b0	3w1	7w1	4	13	8
3	Mike 3.0 ^[6]	GB	10w1	7b½	11w1	2b0	4b½	3	13½	6¾
4	Rook 4.0	SE	9w0	12b½	10b1	6b1	3w½	3	12	7¼
5	Sargon 2.0	US	11w0	9b1	13w1	12b1	1b0	3	12	5
6	Gambiet 80	NL	7w0	11b1	8w1	4w0	12b1	3	11½	6
7	Sargon 2.5 Modular GS	US	6b1	3w½	9b1	1w0	2b0	2½	17½	7
8	Sargon 2.5 Auto RB	US	13w1	2b0	6b0	11w1	9w½	2½	12½	4¼
9	Vega 1.7	GB	4b1	5w0	7w0	13w1	8b½	2½	12	5¼
10	Viktor	CH	3b0	1w0	4w0	14w1	13b1	2	12	1
11	Albatross	GB	5b1	6w0	3b0	8b0	14w1	2	11½	3
12	Fafner 2	GB	1b0	4w½	14b1	5w0	6w0	1½	14	1½
13	Princhess	SE	8b0	14w1	5b0	9b0	10w0	1	10	0
14	Killer Chess IV	GB	2w0	13b0	12w0	10b0	11b0	0	10½	0

Participants

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Program	CC	Author(s)	Processor	Language	KiB	Company
Albatross	GB	Michael Parker	Z80	Assembly	18
Boris Experimental	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, John Aker, Terry Fredrick ^[8] ^[9]	6502	Assembly	8	Applied Concepts
Chess Challenger	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson, Ed English, Frank Duason	6502	Assembly	20	Fidelity Electronics
Fafner 2	GB	Guy Burkill, Alex Kidson	6502	Pascal, Assembly	16
Gambiet 80	NL	Wim Rens	Z80	Assembly	10	Microtrend
Killer Chess IV	GB	Andy Thomason	Z80	Assembly	2.2
Mike 3.0	GB	Mike Johnson, Dave Wilson	6502, chess hardware	Assembly	48
Princhess	SE	Ulf Rathsman	6502	Assembly	12
Rook 4.0	SE	Lars Karlsson	Z80, Z8000	Assembly	16
Sargon 2.0	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen	6502	Assembly	24
Sargon 2.5 Auto RB	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen	6502	Assembly	8	Applied Concepts, Chafitz
Sargon 2.5 Modular GS	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen	6502	Assembly	8	Applied Concepts, Chafitz
Vega 1.7	GB	David Broughton	Z80	Assembly	12
Viktor	CH	Herbert Bruderer	8085	Assembly	8

CC Country Codes

Selected Games

see also the round 2 game, Viktor - Chess Challenger.

Round 3, Chess Challenger - Boris Experimental ^[10]

[Event "WMCCC 1980"]
[Site "London, United Kingdom"]
[Date "1980.09.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chess Challenger"]
[Black "Boris Experimental"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 5. Bb3 Bc5 6. c3 Nf6 7. d4 exd4
8. e5 Qe7 9. cxd4 Bb4+ 10. Kf1 Ng8 11. Bf4 Na5 12. a3 Nxb3 13. Qxb3 Ba5
14. Nc3 Bb7 15. d5 O-O-O 16. Rc1 f6 17. exf6 Nxf6 18. d6 Qe6 19. Qxe6 dxe6
20. dxc7 Rd7 21. Ng5 Re8 22. Re1 h6 23. Nxe6 Rde7 24. b4 Bb6 25. a4 Rxe6
26. Rxe6 Rxe6 27. axb5 axb5 28. Be3 Bxc7 29. Bd4 Bc6 30. f3 Bd6 31. Na2 Bd5
32. Nc3 Bc4+ 33. Kf2 Bxb4 34. Rb1 Bd6 35. Nxb5 Bxh2 36. Nc3 Bd6 37. g3 Kd7
38. f4 g6 39. Kf3 Nd5 40. Ne4 Be7 41. Rb7+ Kc6 42. Rb2 h5 43. Rc2 Kb5 44. Rb2+
Bb4 45. Be5 Bd3 46. Nd6+ Kc5 47. Rb3 Bc2 48. Nb7+ Kb6 49. Rb2 Rc6 50. Nd6 Bd1+
51. Ke4 Kc5 52. f5 Nc3+ 53. Kd3 gxf5 54. Nxf5 Nd5 55. Bd4+ Kb5 56. Be5 Kc5
57. Bd4+ Kb5 58. Be5 Ka4 59. Ra2+ Ba3 60. Kd4 Nc3 61. Ra1 Nb5+ 62. Ke3 Bc2
63. Kf4 Rc4+ 64. Kg5 Rg4+ 65. Kf6 Rc4 66. Kg5 Rg4+ 67. Kf6 Kb3 68. Rh1 Bxf5
69. Kxf5 Nd6+ 70. Ke6 Rg6+ 71. Kd5 Nc4 72. Bf4 Rb6 73. Ke4 Rb5 74. Rd1 Bb2
75. Re1 Be5 76. Rb1+ Bb2 77. Re1 Be5 78. Rb1+ Ka4 79. Rxb5 Bxf4 80. Rc5 Kb4
81. Rxc4+ Kxc4 82. Kxf4 Kd5 83. Kg5 Ke4 84. Kxh5 Kf5 85. g4+ Ke4 86. g5 Kf5
87. g6 Ke6 88. Kh6 Kf6 89. g7 Kf7 90. Kh7 Ke6 91. g8=Q+ Ke5 92. Kg6 Ke4
93. Qc4+ Ke5 94. Kg5 Kd6 95. Kf6 Kd7 96. Qc5 Kd8 97. Ke6 Ke8 98. Qe7# 1-0

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : https://en.lichess.org/RYPXlx5A

Publications

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Kevin O’Connell (1980). World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Personal Computer World, November 1980 ^[12]
Kevin O’Connell (1980). London's World Micro Chess Champions. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 79 » WMCCC 1980
Tom Fürstenberg (1980). The First World Microcomputer Championship. Chess, December 1980

Forum Posts

1980 World Micro Computer Chess Championship Revisited by spacious mind, Schachcomputer.info Forum, August 31, 2008
confusion on first world dedicated computer chess champion by ricard60, Hiarcs Forum, August 24, 2013

External Links

1st World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
1. WMCCC London 1980 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

References

^ Third PCW Exhibition (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Kevin O’Connell (1980). World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Personal Computer World, November 1980
^ Chess Challenger prototype of a Fidelity Champion Sensory Chess Challenger with 6502 processor
^ Hotel Novotel London West - London, former Cunard International Hotel, from WikiMapia, Novotel London West
^ WMCC 1980, CSVN tournament site
^ Tony Harrington (1983). Advance Warning. Personal Computer World, November 1983, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
^ Kevin O’Connell (1980). World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Personal Computer World, November 1980
^ see interview with John Aker in Harry Shershow (1981). Two New Units In Action. Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 91
^ according to Kevin O’Connell (1980). World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Personal Computer World, November 1980, a Sargon program, likely modified by Applied Concepts staff John Aker and Terry Fredrick
^ London 1980 - Chess - Round 3 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Publication Archive from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
^ O’Connell's report referred in Mikros noch ohne Großmeister-Format November 28, 1980, Computerwoche 48/1980 (German) on the WCCC 1980 and the Chess Challenger 6502 vs Z80 issue

What links here?

Page	Date Edited
ACM 1980	Dec 25, 2017
Advance	Jan 7, 2016
Albatross	May 5, 2017
Andy Thomason	Jul 22, 2012
Applied Concepts	Dec 25, 2017
Boris	Dec 25, 2017
Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5	Sep 9, 2017
Chafitz Modular Game System	Dec 25, 2017
Chess Challenger	Dec 27, 2017
Computerworld	Sep 9, 2017
Dan Spracklen	Jan 17, 2017
European MCC 1981	May 22, 2016
European Microcomputer Chess Championship	May 22, 2016
Fafner	Jan 8, 2016
Fidelity Electronics	Dec 1, 2017
Gambiet	Jan 8, 2016
Guy Burkill	Jan 8, 2016
John Aker	Dec 26, 2017
Kathe Spracklen	Dec 25, 2017
Kevin O’Connell	Dec 25, 2017
Killer Chess	Jan 8, 2016
Lars Karlsson	Jan 8, 2016
MCC 1980	Dec 27, 2017
Mike	Jan 8, 2016
Mike Johnson	Jan 7, 2016
PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship	May 22, 2016
PCW-MCC 1979	Dec 23, 2017
Personal Computer World	Apr 12, 2013
Personal Computing	Dec 27, 2017
Princhess	Sep 3, 2017
Rex Kent	Jan 8, 2016
Rook (Program)	Jan 8, 2016
Sargon	Dec 25, 2017
Sidney Samole	Dec 27, 2017
Stockholm MCCT 1980	Sep 5, 2017
Tom Fürstenberg	May 23, 2016
Vega	Jan 8, 2016
Viktor	Jan 8, 2016
WCCC 1980	Dec 25, 2017
Wim Rens	Jul 21, 2016
WMCCC 1980	Dec 25, 2017
WMCCC 1981	Apr 3, 2017
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016

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WMCCC 1981

vincentlejeune — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:39:45 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 2nd WMCCC Travemünde 1981
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		The Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from September 21 to 28, 1981, Salon Timmendorf in the Maritim Hotel ^[1] , Travemünde, West Germany, hosted and sponsored by the Horten AG, a German department store chain and primary German Novag distributor at that time ^[2] . The two last playoff rounds took place in Hamburg. 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.
Travemünde by night with Maritim Hotel Tower ^[4]

Commercial Controversy

Photos & Games

Fidelity X - Philidor X

Final Standing

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Open Group

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#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Fidelity X	US	4w0	2w1	6b1	5w1	7b1	3w1	8b1	6	25	18¼
2	Princhess 2.9	SE	8w1	1b0	4w1	6w1	5b1	7w1	3b0	5	23	13½
3	Novag X	US	6b0	5w½	7b1	4b1	8w1	1b0	2w1	4½	25	14¼
4	Philidor X	GB	1b1	7w1	2b0	3w0	6b½	8w1	5b1	4½	25	13
5	LogiChess 2.1	DK	7w½	3b½	8w1	1b0	2w0	6b½	4w0	2½	25½	7
6	Conic X	HK	3w1	8b0	1w0	2b0	4w½	5w½	7b0	2	26	7¼
7	SciSys X	GB	5b½	4b0	3w0	8b½	1w0	2b0	6w1	2	26	4¾
8	Applied Concepts X	US	2b0	6w1	5b0	7w½	3b0	4b0	1w0	1½	20½	7½

Commercial Group

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#	Program	CC	1A	1B	2A	2B	3A	3B	4A	4B	5A	5B	6A	6B	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Chess Champion Mark V ^[8]	GB/HK	3w½	3b1	4b½	4w1	2w0	2b½	3w1	3b1	4b1	4w1	2w0	2b1	8½	71	42¼
2	Champion Sensory Challenger	US	4b0	4w1	3w1	3b0	1b1	1w½	4b1	4w½	3w0	3b½	1b1	1w0	6½	70	38¾
3	Novag Savant	US/HK	1b½	1w0	2b0	2w1	4w1	4b0	1b0	1w0	2b1	2w½	4w1	4b1	6	76	30
4	Gruenfeld/Morphy/Capablanca	US	2w1	2b0	1w½	1b0	3b0	3w1	2w0	2b½	1w0	1b0	3b0	3w0	3	71	28½

Playoff

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#	Name	CC	1	2	3	P
1	Fidelity X	US	w1	b1	w1	3
2	Chess Champion Mark V	GB	b0	w0	b0	0

Participants

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Open Group

Program	CC	Authors	Processor/Hardware
Applied Concepts X	US	John Aker, Larry Atkin, David Slate et al.	6502
Conic X	HK	Stephen Chen	Z 80 A
Fidelity X	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	6502
LogiChess 2.1	DK	Kaare Danielsen	Z 80 A Nascom 2
Novag X	US	David Kittinger	Z 80 B
Philidor X	GB	David Broughton, Mark Taylor, David Levy, Kevin O’Connell	Z 80 A Osborne 1
Princhess 2.9	SE	Ulf Rathsman	6502 CBM-3032
SciSys X	GB	Mark Taylor, David Broughton, David Levy, Kevin O’Connell	Z 80 A

Commercial Group

Program	CC	Authors	Manufacturer	Processor
Champion Sensory Challenger	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	Fidelity Electronics	6502
Chess Champion Mark V	GB/HK	David Broughton, Mark Taylor, David Levy, Kevin O’Connell	SciSys	6502
Gruenfeld/Morphy/Capablanca	US	John Aker, Larry Atkin, David Slate et al.	Applied Concepts	6502
Novag Savant	US/HK	David Kittinger	Novag	Z 80 B

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

David Levy operating Philidor vs Fidelity X ^[13] ^[14]

[Event "WMCCC 1981"]
[Site "Travemünde, Germany"]
[Date "1981.09.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Fidelity X"]
[Black "Philidor X"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 e6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Na3 cxd4 7.Nb5 Qd7
8.Bf4 e5 9.Bxe5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 Qe7 11.Qe2 dxc3 12.Nc7+ Qxc7 13.Ng6+ Ne7
14.Nxh8 cxb2 15.Qxb2 Qa5+ 16.Ke2 Qa6+ 17.Kd2 Qa5+ 18.Kd1 Bg4+ 19.f3 Rd8+
20.Ke2 Be6 21.g3 Nd5 22.Qc1 Bc5 23.Kd1 Nc3+ 24.Kc2 Bf5+ 25.Bd3 Bxd3+
26.Kd2 Ne4+ 27.Kd1 Nf2# 0-1

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : https://en.lichess.org/IQSH5Lfi

Playoff

Ron Nelson, Kathe & Dan Spracklen, David Levy in CC Mark V - Fidelity X ^[15] ^[16]

[Event "WMCCC 1981 (Playoff)"]
[Site "Hamburg, Germany"]
[Date "1981.09.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Chess Champion Mark V"]
[Black "Fidelity X"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3 Nf6 5.Bd2 Ng4 6.Qg3 d6 7.Nc3 Be7
8.Nd5 O-O 9.Nf3 Nf6 10.Bd3 Nxd5 11.exd5 Nb8 12.O-O-O Na6 13.Ng5 Bxg5
14.Bxg5 f6 15.Be3 Bd7 16.f4 Nb4 17.Qh4 f5 18.Qxd8 Raxd8 19.a3 Nxd3+
20.Rxd3 Bb5 21.Rc3 c5 22.dxc6 Bxc6 23.Bd4 g6 24.Rg3 b6 25.h4 Rde8
26.h5 Re4 27.Rd1 Kf7 28.hxg6+ hxg6 29.Rh3 Rxf4 30.Rh7+ Ke6 31.Rxa7 Bxg2
32.Bxb6 g5 33.b4 Rc4 34.Rg7 Be4 35.Rg6+ Ke5 36.Rd2 g4 37.Bf2 Rfc8
38.Bg3+ f4 39.Rg5+ Bf5 40.Re2+ Kf6 41.Bh4 Rxc2+ 42.Rxc2 Rxc2+ 43.Kd1
Rh2 44.Rh5+ Ke6 45.Rh6+ Kd5 46.b5 g3 47.Rh5 Ke4 48.Rh8 Rxh4 49.Re8+ Kd3
50.Re1 g2 51.Kc1 Rh1 52.Rg1 Rxg1+ 53.Kb2 Rb1+ 54.Ka2 Be6+ 55.Kxb1 Kc3
56.Ka1 g1=Q# 0-1

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : https://en.lichess.org/p9xwAGa5

Publications

David Levy, Kevin O’Connell (1981). A New World Champion. Chess, October/November 1981 ^[17]
2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft in Travemünde und Hamburg. pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis - various articles and documents, including:
- Ben Mittman (1981). Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Travemünde and Hamburg, West Germany - Opening Address. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2
- Ben Mittman, Ken Thompson (1981). Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Travemünde and Hamburg, West Germany. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2
- Gerhard Piel (1981). Mikro-WM in Travemünde und Hamburg. Rochade, 07-1981 (German)
- Gerhard Piel (1981). Wilde Weltmeisterschaften. Rochade, 08-1981 (German)
- 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)
- László Lindner (1981). Nocheinmal Travemünde. Rochade, 11-1981 (German)
- Ivan Kühnmund (1981). Mephisto schlägt den Weltmeister Revanche für die Niederlage am grünen Tisch. Deutsche Schachzeitung, 11-1981 (German)
- Tom Fürstenberg (1981). 2e Micro WK Travemünde/Hamburg. Computerschaak, 11-1981 (Dutch)
- Jan Louwman (1981). Wereldkampioenschap Computerschaak te Travemünde. Computerschaak, 11-1981 (Dutch)
- Björn Schwarz (1981). Güld’ne Pfründe in Travemünde. 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft. Chip 12-1981 (German)
- Jaap van den Herik (1981). Spracklens programma - wereldkampioen bij micro’s. Schakend Nederland, 12-1981 (Dutch)
- László Lindner (1982). Aufruf des Internationalen Computerschachbundes in der Angelegenheit der Weltmeisterschaften. Rochade, 01-1982 (German)

Forum Posts

Consumer Computer Chess History Trivia by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 22, 2015

External Links

2nd World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
WMCC 1981, CSVN tournament site
2. WMCCC Travemünde 1981 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)
Focus - Hamburger Concerto, Live (1975), YouTube Video
Line-up: Thijs van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Bert Ruiter, Colin Allen

References

^ Pictures Hotel Travemünde - Book Hotels Travemünde - Maritim
^ Horten macht's möglich: Schach-Computer für 250 Mark, October 13, 1978, Computerwoche 42/1978 (German)
^ Interview mit Horst Metzing from ChessBase.de (German)
^ Skyline of Lübeck-Travemünde with the oldest lighthouse at the German coast of the Baltic Sea and Maritim Hotel at the Promenade of Travemünde, Photo by Thomas Möller, August 15, 2004 , CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, Lübeck-Travemünde from Wikipedia.de
^ WMCC 1981, CSVN tournament site
^ 2nd World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Travemünde 1981 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ 2nd World Microcomputer Chess Championship (Commercial) - Travemünde 1981 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Chess Champion Mark V
^ 2nd World Microcomputer Chess Championship (Playoff) - Travemünde 1981 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Björn Schwarz (1981). Güld’ne Pfründe in Travemünde. 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft. Chip 12-1981 (German)
^ Ben Mittman, Ken Thompson (1981). Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Travemünde and Hamburg, West Germany. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2
^ David Levy and Kevin O’Connell (1981). A New World Champion. Chess, October/November 1981, Publication Archive from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
^ László Lindner, A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers
^ Travemünde 1981 - Chess - Round 1 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Tom Fürstenberg (1981). 2e Micro WK Travemünde/Hamburg. Computerschaak, 11-1981 (Dutch) from 09-1981, 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft in Travemünde und Hamburg (pdf) hosted by Hein Veldhuis, Photo by Tom Fürstenberg (?)
^ Travemünde 1981 - Chess (Playoff) - Round 2 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Publication Archive from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters

What links here?

Page	Date Edited
0x88	Nov 28, 2016
Applied Concepts	Dec 25, 2017
Ben Mittman	Jan 2, 2017
Chess Champion Mark V	Sep 7, 2017
Conchess	Sep 4, 2017
Conic X	Jan 8, 2016
CPWTIPC 1981	Oct 12, 2013
Dan Spracklen	Jan 17, 2017
David Levy	Jan 3, 2017
Elite	Oct 1, 2016
European MCC 1981	May 22, 2016
Fidelity	Jan 7, 2016
Fidelity Electronics	Dec 1, 2017
Gerhard Piel	Nov 29, 2012
Great Game Machine	Dec 20, 2017
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Jaap van den Herik	Sep 18, 2017
Jan Louwman	Dec 4, 2016
Kathe Spracklen	Dec 25, 2017
Ken Thompson	Sep 8, 2017
Kevin O’Connell	Dec 25, 2017
László Lindner	Sep 2, 2017
LogiChess	Jun 23, 2017
Morphy	Dec 25, 2017
Philidor	Jan 7, 2016
Princhess	Sep 3, 2017
Ron Nelson	Feb 4, 2016
Savant	Feb 4, 2017
SciSys X	Jan 8, 2016
SEX Algorithm	Nov 25, 2014
Sidney Samole	Dec 27, 2017
Stephen Chen	Jan 30, 2016
Stockholm MCCT 1981	Oct 12, 2013
Tom Fürstenberg	May 23, 2016
Ulf Rathsman	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1980	Dec 25, 2017
WMCCC 1981	Apr 3, 2017
WMCCC 1983	Jun 5, 2017
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016

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WMCCC 1983

GerdIsenberg — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 09:46:16 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 3rd WMCCC Budapest 1983
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		The Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from October 13 to 19, 1983 at the SZÁMOK Computer Education and Information Centre, Budapest, Hungary, as a special activity of the 3rd Symposium on Microprocessor and Microcomputer Applications. Tournament Organizer and Director was Dr. László Lindner, the ICCA was represented by Past President Benjamin Mittman. Up to three computers per team were allowed, with the restriction those entries couldn't play each other in the seven round Swiss-system tournament. Elite Auto Sensory by Dan and Kathe Spracklen, supported by Ron Nelson and Boris Baczynskyj became champion with 6/7, while their entry Sensory 9 won the prize of the best commercial available computer, competing with the East German Chess-Master.
King Saint Stephen and Fisherman's Bastion ^[1]

Final Standing

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#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total	SOS	SoDOS	G
1	Elite Auto Sensory	US	10w1	15b1	2w1	3w½	8b1	4w½	13b1	6	26½	21½	7
2	Mephisto X	DE	11b1	6w1	1b0	8w½	5b½	12w1	3b1	5	29	19	7
3	Novag X	US	16w1	9b½	5w1	1b½	10b1	13w1	2w0	5	27	17¼	7
4	Super Constellation	US	12w½	5b0	15w1	9b1	6w1	1b½	10b1	5	26	17	7
5	Prestige Challenger	US	8b1	4w1	3b0	11b1	2w½	10w1	6b0	4½	28½	17	7
6	Chess 2001	GB	14w1	2b0	10w0	7b1	4b0	15w1	5w1	4	26	13	7
7	Gedeon X	HU	-	-	18b1	6w0	16b1	8b1	11w1	4	12½	8½	5
8	Chess 2001 X	GB	5w0	16b1	9w1	2b½	1w0	7w0	15b1	3½	27	10	7
9	Mephisto Y	DE	13b1	3w½	8b0	4w0	14b1	11w0	16b1	3½	24	10	7
10	Mephisto Excalibur	DE	1b0	17w1	6b1	12b1	3w0	5b0	4w0	3	29½	9	7
11	Constellation	US	2w0	12b½	17b1	5w0	15w½	9b1	7b0	3	24	8	7
12	Sensory 9	US	4b½	11w½	14b1	10w0	13b0	2b0	17w1	3	23½	8½	7
13	Superstar X	US	9w0	14b0	16w1	18b1	12w1	3b0	1w0	3	22	5	7
14	Micromurks II	DE	6b0	13w1	12w0	15b½	9w0	17b0	18w1	2½	17½	4	7
15	LogiChess 2.2	DK	17b1	1w0	4b0	14w½	11b½	6b0	8w0	2	26	4¾	7
16	Chess-Master	DE	3b0	8w0	13b0	17w1	7w0	18b1	9w0	2	21	2	7
17	65 Cyrus X	GB	15w0	10b0	11w0	16b0	18w1	14w1	12b0	2	15½	2½	7
18	Labirint 64	RO	-	-	7w0	13w0	17b0	16w0	14b0	0	13½	0	5

Participants

^[4]

Program	CC	Authors	Company Organization	Processor	MHz	Nodes per second
Chess 2001	GB	Richard Lang, Mark Taylor	Intelligent Software	Z80	8	500
Chess 2001 X	GB	Richard Lang, Mark Taylor	Intelligent Software	Z80	8	500
Chess-Master	DE	Rüdiger Worbs, Dieter Schultze	VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt	U880D (Z80)	2.5	12 - 15
Constellation	US/HK	David Kittinger, Scott McDonald	Novag Industries	6502	2 - 3	800
65 Cyrus X	GB	Richard Lang, Mark Taylor	Intelligent Software	6502	3.6
Elite Auto Sensory	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson, Boris Baczynskyj	Fidelity Electronics	6502C	3	750
Gedeon X	HU	Bela Gedeon		6502B	3
Labirint 64	RO	Viorel Darie		8085	2	1
LogiChess 2.2	DK	Kaare Danielsen, Hartvig Ekner	University of Copenhagen	Z80	4	50
Mephisto Excalibur	DE	Thomas Nitsche, Elmar Henne	Hegener & Glaser	68000	8	5
Mephisto X
Mephisto Y
Micromurks II	DE	Manfred Allers, Dirk Hauschildt, Alexander Reinefeld, Jan Roppers, Dieter Steinwender	University of Hamburg	68000	3.5
Novag X	US/HK	David Kittinger, Scott McDonald	Novag Industries	6502C	3.6	1000
Prestige Challenger	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson, Boris Baczynskyj	Fidelity Electronics	6502C	4	1000
Sensory 9	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson, Boris Baczynskyj	Fidelity Electronics	6502	2	500
Super Constellation	US/HK	David Kittinger, Scott McDonald	Novag Industries	6502C	3.6	1000
Superstar X	US/HK	Julio Kaplan	SciSys	6502C	2	400

CC Country Codes of auhors/company

Photos & Games

Novag vs. Fidelity

Friendly President Match, Peter Auge of Novag vs. Sidney Samole of Fidelity ^[5]

Round 3

David Kittinger and Dan Spracklen, Novag X - Prestige Challenger ^[6] ^[7]

[Event "WMCCC 1983"]
[Site "Budapest, Hungary"]
[Date "1983.10.15"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Novag X"]
[Black "Prestige Challenger"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 e6 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.Be2 cxd4
8.cxd4 Bb4+ 9.Nc3 Qf5 10.Be5 Ne4 11.Rc1 f6 12.Bc7 O-O 13.O-O Bxc3
14.bxc3 Rf7 15.Bg3 Nxg3 16.hxg3 Bd7 17.Bd3 Qh5 18.Re1 Rff8 19.Qb3 b6
20.Bc4 Rae8 21.Qb2 Na5 22.Be2 Qh6 23.Bb5 Nc6 24.Qa3 Rf7 25.Qd6 Rc8
26.Bc4 Nd8 27.Bb3 Qh5 28.Qf4 Qa5 29.Qd2 Qh5 30.Rb1 Qf5 31.c4 Qh5
32.Re4 Qg6 33.Qe3 Nb7 34.Nh4 Qg5 35.Qxg5 fxg5 36.Nf3 Nd6 37.Re2 Nxc4
38.Nxg5 Rf6 39.Rbe1 Rf5 40.Nxe6 Rd5 41.Nc5 Bb5 42.a4 Rxd4 43.axb5 Rxc5
44.Re4 Rxe4 45.Rxe4 Kf7 46.f3 a5 47.bxa6 b5 48.a7 Rc8 49.Rxc4 bxc4
50.Bxc4+ Ke7 51.Bd5 Kd6 52.a8=Q Rxa8 53.Bxa8 Kc5 54.Kf2 Kd4 55.f4 h6
56.Kf3 Kd3 57.Be4+ Kc4 58.Ke3 Kc5 59.g4 Kc4 60.g3 Kc5 61.f5 Kc4 62.Kf4
Kc5 63.g5 Kd6 64.gxh6 gxh6 65.g4 Ke7 66.Ke5 Kf7 67.f6 Kg8 68.Bd5+ Kf8
69.Ke6 Ke8 70.f7+ Kf8 71.Kf6 1-0

Round 5

In round 5, Prestige Challenger, operated by Dan Spracklen, played Mephisto X operated by Ossi Weiner and Thomas Nitsche, as reported by Frederic Friedel ^[8] . At move 40, Mephisto had a big advantage, but started to miscalculate and after 75...Qc7, Weiner could hardly wait for the imminent adjournment and adjudication by the master, and had some arguments with Fidelity Electronics representative Peter Reckwitz ^[9] :

[Event "WMCCC 1983"]
[Site "Budapest, Hungary"]
[Date "1983.10.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Prestige Challenger"]
[Black "Mephisto X"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
 
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 Bf5 5.Qf3 Qe6+ 6.Be3 c6 7.Bc4 Qxc4
8.Qxf5 e6 9.Qe5 Nd7 10.Qg3 Ba3 11.Bc1 Bb4 12.Ne2 Bxc3+ 13.bxc3 g6 14.Qc7
Qa6 15.Rb1 b5 16.Rb2 Ne7 17.O-O Nd5 18.Qg3 N5b6 19.Qf3 Rc8 20.a3 O-O
21.Bh6 Rfe8 22.Ra1 f5 23.Rbb1 Nc4 24.Rb4 e5 25.Rb3 Qa4 26.Qd3 e4 27.Qh3
Na5 28.Rb2 c5 29.d5 Nc4 30.Rba2 Nf6 31.Nf4 Nb6 32.d6 Red8 33.Rd1 Rc6
34.Qg3 Rdxd6 35.Rxd6 Rxd6 36.Nd5 Rxd5 37.Qb8+ Kf7 38.h3 Qc4 39.Ra1 Qxc3
40.Rb1 Qxc2 41.Rxb5 Qa4 42.Rxc5 Rd1+ 43.Kh2 Ne8 44.Re5 Rd3 45.Be3 Nc4
46.Rxe8 Qxe8 47.Qc7+ Kf6 48.Qxc4 Qe5+ 49.g3 a5 50.Qa6+ Qd6 51.Qxa5 Rxa3
52.Qb5 Rd3 53.Qb2+ Ke6 54.Kg2 h5 55.Qg7 Kd5 56.Qb7+ Qc6 57.Qf7+ Qe6
58.Qb7+ Kd6 59.Bf4+ Kc5 60.Qa7+ Kb5 61.Be3 Qc6 62.Qb8+ Kc4 63.Qe5 Kb3
64.Qb8+ Kc3 65.Qb1 Kc4 66.Qa2+ Kb5 67.Qb1+ Ka5 68.Qb2 Ka4 69.Qa1+ Kb4
70.Qb2+ Rb3 71.Qd4+ Ka5 72.Qa1+ Kb5 73.Qe5+ Ka6 74.Qa1+ Kb7 75.Qg7+ Qc7
76.Qxg6 Qd7 77.Qxh5 Rb5 78.Bf4 Qc6 79.Qf7+ Ka6 80.Be3 Ka5 81.Bd2+ Ka6
82.Be3 Rd5 83.g4 Qd7 84.Qg8 fxg4 85.hxg4 Kb5 86.Qg6 Re5 87.Qg8 Qe6
88.Qg7 Rd5 89.g5 Qg4+ 90.Kh2 Qh5+ 91.Kg3 Qf3+ 92.Kh4 Kc6 1/2-1/2

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : https://en.lichess.org/zxDurANQ

Reports

Ben Mittman, László Lindner (1983). Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4
Ben Mittman, László Lindner (1984). Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship (continued). ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1
Frederic Friedel (1984). Move from the East. Report of the WMCCC 1983, Personal Computer World, January 1984 ^[10]
David Kittinger (1984). Report from Budapest. Computer Chess Digest Annual 1984 pp. 34
Sidney Samole (1984). Report from Budapest. Computer Chess Digest Annual 1984 pp. 35

External Links

3rd World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
WMCC 1983, CSVN tournament site
3. WMCCC Budapest 1983 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

References

^ King Saint Stephen and Fisherman's Bastion at Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary, Photo Battlements and Turrets - Castle Hill - Buda Side, by Adam Jones, Ph.D., November 11, 2009, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, see also Photo by Ben Mittman in ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 54
^ WMCC 1983, CSVN tournament site
^ 3rd World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Budapest 1983 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Frederic Friedel (1984). Move from the East. Report of the WMCCC 1983, Personal Computer World, January 1984
^ Photo by László Lindner, from Ben Mittman, László Lindner (1983). Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 24
^ László Lindner, A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers
^ Budapest 1983 - Chess - Round 3 - Game 2 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Frederic Friedel (1984).Move from the East.Report of the WMCCC 1983, Personal Computer World, January 1984
^ Budapest 1983 - Chess - Round 5 - Game 9 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Publication Archive 1984 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters

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Ben Mittman	Jan 2, 2017
Chess 2001	Jan 8, 2016
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Constellation	Oct 2, 2016
Cyrus	Jul 22, 2014
Dan Spracklen	Jan 17, 2017
David Kittinger	Dec 27, 2017
Dieter Schultze	Jan 8, 2016
Elite	Oct 1, 2016
Fidelity Electronics	Dec 1, 2017
Frederic Friedel	Jan 6, 2018
Gedeon	Jan 8, 2016
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Julio Kaplan	Apr 5, 2016
Kathe Spracklen	Dec 25, 2017
Labirint 64	Dec 21, 2017
László Lindner	Sep 2, 2017
LogiChess	Jun 23, 2017
Mephisto Vancouver	Sep 2, 2017
MicroMurks	Jan 8, 2016
Personal Computer World	Apr 12, 2013
Peter Reckwitz	Dec 9, 2015
Rüdiger Worbs	Jan 8, 2016
Sensory 9	Jan 8, 2016
Sidney Samole	Dec 27, 2017
Super Constellation	Oct 1, 2016
Superstar	Jan 8, 2016
Viorel Darie	Dec 21, 2017
WMCCC 1981	Apr 3, 2017
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WMCCC 1984

GerdIsenberg — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:41:13 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 4th WMCCC Glasgow 1984
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		The Fourth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from September 9-15, 1984, at Stakis Ingram Hotel ^[1], Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, hosted by the Scottish Chess Association as part of their centenary celebration. Mike Valvo served as Tournament Director, and the ICCA was represented by Monroe Newborn. Nineteen programs battled for the title, represented far fewer interests since multiple entries were allowed. Each company was permitted as many as three entries although there was no limit for a particular author, like Dan and Kathe Spracklen with interests in seven of the nineteen entries. After seven rounds, four programs tied for the first place, presented four different interests which was a mathematical miracle, Elite X, Mephisto III A, Princhess X and Psion. The awards ceremony took place in the about-to-be-founded Turing Institute, the brainchild of Donald Michie and an affiliate of Glasgow's University of Strathclyde ^[2].
Turing Institute ^[3]

Final Standing

^[4]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total	SOS	SoDOS	G
1	Psion	GB	8w1	16b1	2w1	3b0	6b1	4b½	5w½	5	31	21¼	7
2	Princhess X	SE	6b1	17w1	1b0	12w½	9b1	3w1	4w½	5	29½	20¼	7
3	Elite X	US	4b½	18w1	9b1	1w1	5b½	2b0	11w1	5	29½	19¾	7
4	Mephisto III A	DE	3w½	10b1	15w1	5b½	12b1	1w½	2b½	5	29½	19¾	7
5	Conchess X	SE	11w1	15b½	17b1	4w½	3w½	6b½	1b½	4½	28	17	7
6	Elegance	US	2w0	19b1	16w1	11b1	1w0	5w½	15b1	4½	24	11¾	7
7	Elite Y	US	15w0	11b½	19w1	13b½	16w1	9b½	14b1	4½	19½	11¾	7
8	Private Line	US	1b0	bye	11w0	19b1	18w½	13b1	16b1	4½	17½	7¾	6
9	Mephisto III C	DE	10w1	13b½	3w0	15b1	2w0	7w½	12b1	4	27½	13¾	7
10	Sargon III / Apple	US	9b0	4w0	18b1	14w1	13w1	11b0	19b1	4	22	9½	7
11	Mephisto III B	DE	5b0	7w½	8b1	6w0	17b1	10w1	3b0	3½	29½	13¼	7
12	Sargon III / MacIntosh	US	16w0	14b1	13w1	2b½	4w0	15b1	9w0	3½	25	11	7
13	Conchess Y	SE	18b1	9w½	12b0	7w½	10b0	8w0	bye	3	23	6¾	6
14	Intelligent Chess Software	GB	17b0	12w0	bye	10b0	19w1	18b1	7w0	3	18	3½	6
15	Colossus 2.1	GB	7b1	5w½	4b0	9w0	bye	12w0	6w0	2½	26	6¾	6
16	L'Empereur	GB	12b1	1w0	6b0	17w½	7b0	bye	8w0	2½	24½	4¾	6
17	Sargon III / Compaq	US	14w1	2b0	5w0	16b½	11w0	19b1	18b0	2½	22	5¼	7
18	Orwell	DE	13w0	3b0	10w0	bye	8b½	14w0	17w1	2½	22	4¾	6
19	Chessnut 3	GB	bye	6w0	7b0	8w0	14b0	17w0	10w0	1	23	0	6

Participants

^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Program	CC	Class	Authors	Company	Hardware	MHz
Chessnut 3	GB	A	Geoffrey Bulmer		6502 Commodore 64	0.9
Colossus 2.1	GB	N	Martin Bryant		6502 Apple II	3.5
Conchess X	SE	N	Ulf Rathsman, Lars Hjörth	HB Princhess	6502	6.5
Conchess Y	SE	N	Ulf Rathsman, Lars Hjörth	HB Princhess	6502	6.5
Elegance	US	C	Dan and Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson, Boris Baczynskyj	Fidelity Electronics	6502	6.55
Elite X	US	N				6
Elite Y	US	N				6
Intelligent Chess Software	GB	C	Richard Lang, Mark Taylor	Intelligent Chess	6502 Apple II	3.5
L'Empereur	GB	C	Richard Lang	Intelligent Chess	Z80	4
Mephisto III A	DE	C	Thomas Nitsche, Elmar Henne	Hegener & Glaser	68000, Mephisto Exclusive	12
Mephisto III B	DE	C
Mephisto III C	DE	C
Orwell	DE	N	Thomas Nitsche, Elmar Henne	Nitsche & Henne	68000, NDR-Klein-Computer	12
Princhess X	SE	N	Ulf Rathsman	HB Princhess	6502	6.1
Private Line	US	C	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	Remote Control Systems	6502	6
Psion	GB	N	Richard Lang	Psion	68000 SAGE IV	8
Sargon III / Apple	US	C	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	Hayden Software	6502 Apple II	3.5
Sargon III / Mac Intosh	US	C			68000 Macintosh	4
Sargon III / Compaq	US	C			8088 Compaq	1

CC Country Codes
Class: Commercial, Non-commercial, Amateur

Photos



Thomas Nitsche, Ossi Weiner and Lars Hjörth, WMCCC 1984 Glasgow ^[8] ^[9]

TD Mike Valvo and ICCA President Monroe Newborn ^[10]


All the four (shared) World Microcomputer Chess Champion teams with ICCA President: Ulf Rathsman, Richard Lang, Kathe Spracklen, Dan Spracklen, Thomas Nitsche, Sidney Samole, Geoffrey Bulmer, Monroe Newborn (covered), Ossi Weiner and Elmar Henne ^[11]

Tournament Director

Mike Valvo

Publications

Monroe Newborn (1984). The Fourth World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4
Tony Harrington (1984). Look back in dismay - Report of WMCCC 1984. Personal Computer World, December 1984

External Links

4th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
World Microcomputer Chess Championship 1984 from Colossus by Martin Bryant ^[12]
WMCC 1984, CSVN tournament site
4. WMCCC Glasgow 1984 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)
Simple Minds - Barrowland Glasgow (Audio), February 29, 1984, YouTube Video

References

^ Ingram - Glasgow - Prices, Offers & Tests of Ingram
^ Monroe Newborn (1984). The Fourth World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4
^ The Turing Institute, George Square, Glasgow, Image by Peter Mowforth, September 01, 1985, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, Turing Institute from Wikipedia
^ WMCC 1984, CSVN tournament site
^ 4th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
^ Monroe Newborn (1984). The Fourth World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4
^ Tony Harrington (1984). Look back in dismay - Report of WMCCC 1984. Personal Computer World, December 1984
^ Was macht eigentlich Thomas Nitsche, der Mephisto III Programmierer? by Thorsten Czub
^ Photo by Rainer Neuhäusler, Re: Who is that guy? by Rainer Neuhäusler, CCC, August 19, 2009
^ László Lindner, A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers
^ László Lindner, A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers
^ World Micro Computer Chess Championship 1984 photos by Martin Bryant, CCC, November 28, 2013

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Chessnut	Dec 10, 2016
Colossus Chess	Dec 10, 2017
Conchess	Sep 4, 2017
Dan Spracklen	Jan 17, 2017
Elegance	Jan 8, 2016
Elite	Oct 1, 2016
Elmar Henne	Sep 9, 2017
Excellence	Mar 23, 2014
Fidelity Electronics	Dec 1, 2017
Geoffrey Bulmer	Dec 10, 2016
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Intelligent Chess Software	Jan 8, 2016
Johan Enroth	Sep 11, 2017
Kathe Spracklen	Dec 25, 2017
L'Empereur	Jan 8, 2016
Lars Hjörth	Sep 5, 2017
Mephisto	Dec 18, 2017
Mephisto (H)	Dec 18, 2017
Michael Valvo	Feb 26, 2018
Monroe Newborn	Dec 23, 2017
Orwell	Dec 31, 2017
Ossi Weiner	Dec 18, 2017
Personal Computer World	Apr 12, 2013
Princhess	Sep 3, 2017
Private Line	Jan 8, 2016
Psion	Mar 20, 2017
Rainer Neuhäusler	Apr 16, 2013
Sargon	Dec 25, 2017
Sidney Samole	Dec 27, 2017
Thomas Nitsche	Jan 7, 2016
Tony Harrington	Sep 26, 2014
Ulf Rathsman	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1983	Jun 5, 2017
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WMCCC 1985	Feb 6, 2018
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WMCCC 1985

GerdIsenberg — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:31:18 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 5th WMCCC Amsterdam 1985
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		The Fifth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from September 7-15, 1985, at the World Trade Center located at the Zuidas in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Despite a field of 16 chess computers in the commercial group, there were six participants with up to three entries each. A 32-bit version of Richard Lang's Mephisto Amsterdam won conveniently, followed by two 16-bit versions of the same program ^[1] . Additionaly, there was an amateur group with five participants. The title of the Amateur World Microcomputer Chess Champion was confidently won by Frans Morsch's program Nona with a 100% score.
WTC, Amsterdam ^[2]

Final Standing

Commercial

5th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, September 1985, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ^[3]

#	Program	CC	Processor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Mephisto A'dam 1	GB	68020	12w1	8b1	7b1	11w1	4w1	6b1	9b1	5w1	8	29	29
2	Mephisto A'dam 3	GB	68000	6b1	11w0	13b1	10w1	14w1	4b1	7w1	12b1	7	27½	24½
3	Mephisto A'dam 2	GB	68000	4w1	13w1	11b½	14b1	5w1	7b1	12w1	8b½	7	27½	24¼
4	Princhess 6	SE	6502	3b0	16b½	15w1	8w1	1b0	2w0	14b1	13w1	4½	35	12½
5	Blitz Monster Y	US	6502	10w½	9b½	8w½	7b½	3b0	14w1	6w1	1b0	4	36	14
6	Plymate Y	SE	6502	2w0	15b½	16w1	9b½	10w1	1w0	5b0	11w1	4	32½	10½
7	Plymate Z	SE	6502	9w½	10b1	1w0	5w½	11b1	3w0	2b0	15w½	3½	38½	11½
8	Orwell Y	DE	68020	14w1	1w0	5b½	4b0	13w0	15b½	16b1	3w½	3½	33	10¾
9	Orwell X	DE	68020	7b½	5w½	14b0	6w½	15w1	13b½	1w0	10b½	3½	31½	11½
10	Turbostar K	US	6502	5b½	7w0	12w1	2b0	6b0	16w1	13b½	9w½	3½	29	9¼
11	Orwell Z	DE	68020	16w1	2b1	3w½	1b0	7w0	12b0	15w½	6b0	3	36	12¾
12	Plymate X	SE	6502	1b0	14w0	10b0	13w1	16b1	11w1	3b0	2w0	3	35½	7
13	Blitz Monster C	US	6502	15w1	3b0	2w0	12b0	8b1	9w½	10w½	4b0	3	34½	9½
14	Turbostar 440	US	6502	8b0	12b1	9w1	3w0	2b0	5b0	4w0	16w1	3	33½	7½
15	Turbostar G	US	6502	13b0	6w½	4b0	16w½	9b0	8w½	11b½	7b½	2½	26	7½
16	Blitz Monster X	US	6502	11b0	4w½	6b0	15b½	12w0	10b0	8w0	14b0	1	27	3½

Amateurs

#	Program	CC	Hardware	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	P	SOS	SoDOS	G
1	Nona	NL	Apple II	3w1	5b1	2w1	4b1	3b1	2b1	4w1	7	18	18	7
2	Rebel	NL		4w1	3b½	5w1	1b0	4b½	1w0	3w1	4	24	7½	7
3	Tumult	RO	Apple II	1b0	2w½	4b1	5w1	1w0	4w1	2b0	3½	25	5	7
4	Kempelen	HU	Commodore 128	2b0	3w0	5b1	1w0	2w½	3b0	1b0	1½	29	2	7
5	PK83	NL	Dec Professional 380	1w0	2b0	4w0	3b0				0	16	0	4

Participants

Commercial

Program	CC	Author(s)	Company	entries
Mephisto	GB	Richard Lang	Hegener & Glaser	3
Princhess	SE	Ulf Rathsman	Contempory Chess Computers	1
Plymate	SE	Ulf Rathsman, Lars Hjörth	Systemhuset	3
Blitz Monster	US	David Kittinger	Novag	3
Turbostar	US	Julio Kaplan, Craig Barnes	SciSys	3
Orwell	DE	Thomas Nitsche, Elmar Henne	Nitsche & Henne	3

CC Country Codes

Amateurs

Program	CC	Author(s)
Nona	NL	Frans Morsch
Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder
Tumult	RO	Denis Dancanet, Lucien N. Dancanet
Kempelen	HU	Attila Kovács
PK83	NL	Ard van Bergen

CC Country Codes

Special Event

During the Championship, IGM Gennadi Sosonko did a simultaneous exhibition on September 12-13, from 7:15pm to 3:15am (8 hours!) against 21 participating and 10 other chess computers. Score: 25.5 - 5.5 (82.3%) ^[4] .

Photos



Ossi Weiner, Manfred Hegener and Richard Lang ^[5]

Gennadi Sosonko simultaneous exhibition, back of Richard Lang, operating Mephisto Amsterdam 1 running on a 68020 workstation ^[6]


Lars Hjörth and Ulf Rathsman congratulate Richard Lang after decisive R 6 ^[7]

Publications

Sicco Kooi, Ard van Bergen (1985). The 5th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3
Frederic Friedel, Dieter Steinwender (1985). Mephisto schlug sie alle - Fünfte Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft in Amsterdam. Computerschach und Spiele, October/November 1985, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German)
Gerhard Piel (1985). Interview mit Manfred Hegener. (pdf) Erwerbsquelle: 10-1985, Zeitschrift Schachcomputer (Herausgeber Florian Piel), Edition 20, S. 6-8, Gerhard Piel: Neue Programme von neuen Programmierern. (German) hosted by Hein Veldhuis
Interview with Peter Auge (pdf), Erwerbsquelle: 10-1985, Zeitschrift Schachcomputer (Herausgeber Florian Piel) hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German)
Bob Herschberg (1986). The 5th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, Review on a booklet by C. Roos and T. Sibbing, Computer Chess Foundation Amsterdam

External Links

5th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
Het vijfde wereldkampioenschap Microcomputer-schaak, Computerschaak, pagina 2 (Dutch)
5. WMCCC Amsterdam 1985 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

Video

Amsterdam 1985, (German) YouTube Video ^[8] ^[9]

References

^ Interview mit Manfred Hegener (pdf), Erwerbsquelle: 10-1985, Zeitschrift Schachcomputer (Herausgeber Florian Piel), Edition 20, S. 6-8, Gerhard Piel: Neue Programme von neuen Programmierern. (German) hosted by Hein Veldhuis
^ Photo by SketchUp, April 26, 2007, World Trade Center (Amsterdam) from Wikipedia
^ WMCC 1985, CSVN tournament site
^ WMCC 1985, CSVN tournament site
^ Picture from Computerschach und Spiele hosted by Hegener & Glaser (Mephisto) from ChessComputers.org
^ László Lindner, A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers
^ Image captured from the WMCCC 1985 Video @ 2:58
^ Historic video's hosted by Ed Schröder
^ A couple of new historic video's by Ed Schröder, CCC, March 17, 2013

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Page	Date Edited
Ard van Bergen	Dec 12, 2016
Attila Kovács	Jan 7, 2016
Blitz Monster	Jan 8, 2016
Commodore 128	Mar 24, 2016
Conchess	Sep 4, 2017
Craig Barnes	Jan 8, 2016
Denis Dancanet	Feb 6, 2018
Ed Schroder	Feb 26, 2018
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Johan Enroth	Sep 11, 2017
Julio Kaplan	Apr 5, 2016
Kempelen	Mar 24, 2016
Lars Hjörth	Sep 5, 2017
Lucien N. Dancanet	Feb 6, 2018
Manfred Hegener	May 13, 2016
Mephisto	Dec 18, 2017
Mephisto Amsterdam	Sep 4, 2017
Mephisto Dallas	Sep 1, 2017
Mephisto Mondial	Jun 23, 2017
Nona	Jan 7, 2016
Orwell	Dec 31, 2017
Ossi Weiner	Dec 18, 2017
PK	Jan 8, 2016
Plymate	Jan 7, 2016
Princhess	Sep 3, 2017
Psion	Mar 20, 2017
Richard Lang	Jan 7, 2016
Super Constellation	Oct 1, 2016
Tumult	Feb 6, 2018
Turbostar	Jan 8, 2016
Ulf Rathsman	Jan 7, 2016
USOCCC 1986	Dec 1, 2017
Videos	Jan 22, 2018
WMCCC 1984	Dec 31, 2017
WMCCC 1985	Feb 6, 2018
WMCCC 1986	Jan 7, 2016
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016

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WMCCC 1986

GerdIsenberg — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:34:46 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 6th WMCCC Dallas 1986
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		The Sixth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from October 31 - November 5, 1986, in the Edison Room of the Infomart, Dallas, Texas, United States. The field of 14 chess computers and programs were six participants with up to three entries each.
Dallas Infomart ^[1]

Final Standing

6th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Nov. 1986, Dallas, USA ^[2]

#	Program	CC	Processor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Mephisto 3	GB	68020	11b1	7w1	4w1	2b1	8w1	9b1	6w0	6	27	23
2	Fidelity A	US	68020	14w1	3b1	5b1	1w0	6b½	8w1	12b1	5½	25	17
3	Mephisto 2	GB	68020	10w1	2w0	6b½	11b1	7w½	13b1	4b1	5	24½	15¼
4	Fidelity C	US	68020	9w1	6w1	1b0	8b½	5w1	12b1	3w0	4½	28½	15¾
5	Mephisto 1	GB	68020	8w1	10b1	2w0	7w1	4b0	11b1	9w½	4½	26	14¼
6	Recom Deventer A	NL	6502	12w1	4b0	3w½	10b1	2w½	7b0	1b1	4	29½	16¼
7	Fidelity B	US	68020	13w1	1b0	12w1	5b0	3b½	6w1	10w0	3½	26	10
8	Recom Deventer C	NL	6502	5b0	14w1	11b1	4w½	1b0	2b0	13w1	3½	24½	6¼
9	Recom Deventer B	NL	6502	4b0	11w0	14b1	12b1	10w1	1w0	5b½	3½	22½	7¼
10	Cyrus B	GB	68020	3b0	5w0	13b1	6w0	9b0	14w1	7b1	3	22	5
11	Cyrus A	GB	68020	1w0	9b1	8w0	3w0	13b½	5w0	14b1	2½	24	4¼
12	Cyrus C	GB	68020	6b0	13w1	7b0	9w0	14b1	4w0	2w0	2	22½	1½
13	Chess Monster	US	80386	7b0	12b0	10w0	14b1	11w½	3w0	8b0	1½	19½	1¼
14	Kempelen	HU	68000	2b0	8b0	9w0	13w0	12w0	10b0	11w0	0	21½	0

Participants

^[3] ^[4]

Program	CC	Author(s)	Company	entries
Mephisto	GB	Richard Lang	Hegener & Glaser	3
Fidelity	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen	Fidelity Electronics	3
Recom Deventer	NL	Ed Schröder	Schröder BV	3
Cyrus 68K	GB	Mark Taylor, David Levy, Kevin O’Connell	Intelligent Software	3
Chess Monster	US	Jacques Middlecoff	Enlightenment Inc.	1
Kempelen	HU	Attila Kovács	Sierra On-Line ^[5] ^[6]	1

CC Country Codes

Complaints

Excerpt from Tony Marsland's report ^[7] :

Despite last minute clarifications on the entry requirements, which undermined the organizer’s plans, and despite the paranoia of some participants and the energetic way they filed such complaints as: Is Rebel Computers really a subsidiary of Hegener & Glaser? Was Fidelity secretly using a multiprocessor? Were the ReCom and Mephisto teams conspiring to fix the outcome of the event (in a foreign tongue, yet), and so on. Such nervousness is not uncommon in micro events, but the complaints were dealt with in a serious and conscientious way, even if some issues were not fully resolved.

Reports

Tony Marsland (1986). The 6th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4 ^[8]
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Danny Kopec, Monty Newborn (1986). Belle and Mephisto Dallas Capture Computer Chess Title at the FJCC. reprinted in The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf

External Links

6th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
6. WMCCC Dallas 1986 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

References

^ Infomart from Wikipedia
^ WMCC 1986, CSVN tournament site
^ 6th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
^ The ACM's Seventeenth North American Computer Chess Championship and The Sixth World Microcomputer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
^ by Andromeda Software Inc., see The Two Guys from Andromeda Story
^ Kempelen Chess from Sierra Online from The Spacious Mind
^ Tony Marsland (1986). The 6th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4
^ pdf, Courtesy of Tony Marsland, March 21, 2013

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ACM 1986	Dec 5, 2017
ACM 1987	Dec 5, 2017
Attila Kovács	Jan 7, 2016
Chess Monster	Jun 21, 2017
Fidelity	Jan 7, 2016
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Jacques Middlecoff	Jun 21, 2017
Kempelen	Mar 24, 2016
Mephisto	Dec 18, 2017
Mephisto Dallas	Sep 1, 2017
Tony Marsland	Nov 27, 2017
WCCC 1986	Jul 27, 2017
WMCCC 1985	Feb 6, 2018
WMCCC 1986	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1987	Jan 7, 2016
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WMCCC 1987

GerdIsenberg — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:35:13 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 7th WMCCC Rome 1987
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		The Seventh World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from September 14 to 20, 1987, Rome, Italy. Both the Manufacturers' group (Commercial Event) and the Programmers' group (Software Event) were won by Richard Lang with Mephisto Roma and Psion respectively, followed by David Levy and Mark Taylor with CXG Sphinx and Cyrus 68K, more closely than the results suggested ^[1] . Best amateur was Gyula Horváth with Pandix.
Pantheon and the Fontana del Pantheon ^[2]

Final Standing

Software Event

7th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, September 1987, Rome ITA ^[3]

#	Program	CC	Processor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	P	SoDOS
1	Psion	GB	68020 12 MHz	X	½	1	1	1	1	1	5½	13¼
2	Cyrus 68K	GB	68020 24 MHz	½	X	½	1	½	1	1	4½	11
3	Plymate	SE	6502 6 MHz	0	½	X	½	1	1	1	4	7½
4	Mephisto X	NL	6502 18 MHz	0	0	½	X	1	1	1	3½	5½
5	Pandix	HU		0	½	0	0	X	0	1	1½	3¼
6	Kempelen	HU	68000, Atari ST	0	0	0	0	1	X	0	1	1½
7	Chat	DE	68020 20 MHz	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	1	1

Commercial Event

World Micro Manufacturers (Team) Champion ^[4]

#	Name	CC	Processor	1	2	3	4	5	6	P
1	Mephisto Roma A	GB	68020	X	.	.	1	1	1	3
2	Mephisto Roma B	GB	68020	.	X	.	1	1	1	3
3	Mephisto Roma C	GB	68020	.	.	X	1	1	1	3
4	Sphinx B	GB	68020	0	0	0	X	.	.	0
5	Sphinx A	GB	68020	0	0	0	.	X	.	0
6	Sphinx C	GB	68020	0	0	0	.	.	X	0

CC Country Codes

Participants

Software Event

Program	CC	Authors
Chat	DE	Wolfgang Delmare
Cyrus 68K	GB	David Levy, Mark Taylor, Kevin O’Connell
Kempelen	HU	Attila Kovács
Mephisto X	NL	Ed Schröder
Pandix	HU	Gyula Horváth
Plymate	SE	Ulf Rathsman, Lars Hjörth
Psion	GB	Richard Lang

CC Country Codes

Commercial Event

Name	CC	Authors	Company	entries
Mephisto Roma	GB	Richard Lang	Hegener & Glaser	3
CXG Sphinx	GB	David Levy, Mark Taylor	Newcrest Technology	3

CC Country Codes

Tournament Director

Michael Valvo

Publications

Kaare Danielsen (1987). The 7th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Rome, Italy, September 14-20, 1987. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3
Göran Grottling (1987). Mr. Lang, wo bleibt die Tiefe? Ein Interview mit Richard Lang. Modul 4/87, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German, translation from PLY 3/89)

External Links

References

^ Kaare Danielsen (1987). The 7th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Rome, Italy, September 14-20, 1987. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3
^ The Fountain (1578) by Giacomo Della Porta crowned by the Macuteo obelisk in 1711 and the Pantheon (27 BC.) - Piazza della Rotonda (Rome), Photo by Jean-Pol Grandmont, October 03, 2011, The Pantheon from Wikipedia
^ WMCC 1987, CSVN tournament site
^ 7th World Microcomputer Chess Championship (Manufacturers) - Rome 1987 (ICGA Tournaments)

What links here?

Page	Date Edited
Asymmetric evaluation	Nov 17, 2016
Chat	Jan 7, 2016
CXG Sphinx	Jun 23, 2017
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Kaare Danielsen	Feb 19, 2017
Mephisto	Dec 18, 2017
Mephisto Roma	Sep 1, 2017
Opponent Model Search	Aug 14, 2017
Pandix	Feb 4, 2017
Plymate	Jan 7, 2016
Psion	Mar 20, 2017
Richard Lang	Jan 7, 2016
Ulf Rathsman	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1986	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1987	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1988	Oct 27, 2016
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016

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WMCCC 1988

GerdIsenberg — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:24:31 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 8th WMCCC Almeria 1988
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		The Eighth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from September 24 to October 1, 1988, Hotel Playadulce, Aguadulce near Almería, Province of Almería, Spain. Just over one week before the scheduled starting date tournament director David Levy was told that the main sponsor had pulled out. Spanish computer chess organizer Amador Cuesta tried in vain to find alternative sponsorship and then resigned from the organizing committee with only two days to go. David Levy managed to find a last minute sponsor to cover the essential costs and it was possible to get the tournament off the ground on time. In the end everyone had an enjoyable time and the idea of a seaside venue proved extremely popular ^[1]. All three groups played were dominated by Richard Lang's Mephisto Almeria programs.
Hotel Playadulce ^[2]

Final Standing

Software Group

World Micro Software Champion ^[3]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	P	SoDos
1	Mephisto Almeria X	GB	4w1	7b1	5w1	2b1	6w1	3b1		6	15
2	Challenger	US		6w1	3b½	1w0	4b1	7w1	5b1	4½	8¾
3	Y!88	SE	7w1	5b0	2w½	6b1		1w0	4b1	3½	6¾
4	Rebel	NL	1b0		7w1	5b1	2w0	6b1	3w0	3	4
5	Pandix	HU	6b½	3w1	1b0	4w0	7b1		2w0	2½	4½
6	Chat	DE	5w½	2b0		3w0	1b0	4w0	7b½	1	1½
7	Dappet	NL	3b0	1w0	4b0		5w0	2b0	6w½	½	½

Manufacturers Group

World Micro Manufacturers (Team) Champion

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Mephisto 4	GB	3w½	4w½	8b½	7w1	3w1	4b1	8w1	7b1	6½	31	15½
2	Mephisto 1	GB	7w1	8b1	4w½	3b½	7b1	8w½	4b0	3w½	5	34½	20
3	Fidelity 4	US	1b½	5b½	6b1	2w½	1b0	5w0	6w1	2b½	4	36	21
4	Fidelity 3	US	5w½	1b½	2b½	6w0	5b1	1w0	2w1	6b½	4	34	20
5	Mephisto 3	GB	4b½	3w½	7b0	8w1	4w0	3b1	7w0	8b1	4	32	15¼
6	Mephisto 2	GB	8b0	7b0	3w0	4b1	8b1	7w1	3b0	4w½	3½	30	10½
7	Fidelity 1	US	2b0	6w1	5w1	1b0	2w0	6b0	5b1	1w0	3	30½	11¾
8	Fidelity 2	US	6w1	2w0	1w½	5b0	6w0	2b½	1b0	5w0	2	28	9½

Commercial Group

Single-CPU World Microcomputer Chess Champion

#	Program	CC	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	5	6	P	SoDos	G
1	Mephisto	GB	3w1	2b½	3b1	2w1	3w1	2b½	3b1	2w1	3b1	2w0	2b1	9	28½	11
2	Fidelity	US	3b1	1w½	3w1	1b0	3b1	1w½	3w1	1b0	1b1	3w½	1w0	6½	20¼	11
3	Plymate	SE	2w0	1b0	2b0	1w0	1b0	2w0	2b0	1w0	1w0	2b½		½	77½	10

Participants

Software Group

Program	CC	Authors
Challenger	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen
Chat	DE	Wolfgang Delmare
Dappet	NL	Dap Hartmann, Peter Kouwenhoven
Mephisto Almeria X	GB	Richard Lang
Pandix	HU	Gyula Horváth, Zsuzsa Horváth
Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder, Jan Louwman
Y!88	SE	Ulf Rathsman, Lars Hjörth, Sandro Necchi

CC Country Codes

Manufacturers Group

Program	CC	Authors	Manufacturer
Fidelity	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson	Fidelity Electronics
Mephisto	GB	Richard Lang	Hegener & Glaser

Commercial Group

Program	CC	Authors	Manufacturer
Fidelity	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson	Fidelity Electronics
Mephisto	GB	Richard Lang	Hegener & Glaser
Plymate	SE	Ulf Rathsman, Lars Hjörth	Conchess

CC Country Codes

Photos & Games

Chat - Pandix

^[4]

Chat - Pandix, Gyula Horváth and Wolfgang Delmare ^[5]

[Event "WMCCC 1988 (Software)"]
[Site "Almeria, Spain"]
[Date "1988.09.24"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Chat"]
[Black "Pandix"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
 
1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.c4 dxc4 6.Ne5 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Nxc4 c5 
9.dxc5 Qxd1+ 10.Kxd1 Bxc5 11.Ke1 Rd8 12.Be3 Bxe3 13.Nxe3 Nbd7 14.Rd1 h6 15.Kf1 
Rb8 16.Rg1 b5 17.Ne4 Nxe4 18.Bxe4 Bb7 19.Bxb7 Rxb7 20.Kg2 a5 21.Rd6 Rc7 22.Rgd1 
h5 23.Kg1 a4 24.a3 g6 25.f4 Kg7 26.Kh1 Kh7 27.Kg2 Kg7 28.Kg1 Kf8 29.Kg2 Ke7 
30.Kh1 Rcc8 31.Kg2 Nf6 32.Rxd8 Rxd8 33.Rxd8 Kxd8 34.Nc2 Kc7 35.Nd4 Kb6 36.Nf3 
Ne4 37.Ne5 Nd6 38.Kf3 Kc5 39.e3 Kb6 40.h4 Kc5 41.Ke2 Ne4 42.Kf3 Nd6 43.Kf2 Kd5 
44.Kf3 Kc5 1/2-1/2

Pandix - Y!88

Pandix by Gyula Horváth won the extra title of the World PC Champion ^[6]. In a notable game Pandix played the color reverse Ruy Lopez versus Y!88 by 1. e3 e5 2. e4 which took Why Not 88 out of book, while Pandix was able to play along a reversed book line ^[7]:

[Event "WMCCC 1988 (Software)"]
[Site "Almeria, Spain"]
[Date "1988.09.25"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Pandix"]
[Black "Y!88"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e3 e5 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3 5.dxc3 O-O 6.f3 d5 7.Bg5 dxe4 8.Qxd8 Rxd8 
9.fxe4 Rd6 10.Bxf6 Rxf6 11.Nf3 Nc6 12.Bb5 Bg4 13.Bxc6 Rxc6 14.Nxe5 Re6 15.Nxg4 
Rxe4+ 16.Kf2 Rxg4 17.Rhd1 Kf8 18.Rd7 Rf4+ 19.Kg3 Rc4 20.Rf1 f6 21.Re1 Rc5 22.h4 
h5 23.Ree7 g5 24.Rxc7 b6 25.Rf7+ Kg8 26.Rg7+ Kh8 27.Rh7+ Kg8 28.Rcg7+ Kf8 29.Re7 
gxh4+ 30.Kxh4 Rb5 31.Rc7 Kg8 32.Rcg7+ Kf8 33.b3 Rc5 34.c4 Ra5 35.a4 Re8 36.Rf7+ 
Kg8 37.Rhg7+ Kh8 38.Rxa7 Rxa7 39.Rxa7 Re2 40.Rf7 Rf2 41.Kxh5 Kg8 42.Rb7 Rxg2 
43.Rxb6 Kf7 44.Rb7+ Ke6 45.c3 Rg3 46.Rb6+ Ke7 47.b4 Rxc3 48.c5 Rc1 49.a5 Rh1+ 
50.Kg4 Rg1+ 51.Kf3 Rf1+ 52.Ke3 f5 53.a6 Kd7 54.b5 Re1+ 55.Kf4 Ra1 56.Rd6+ Kc8 
57.Kxf5 Ra2 58.Re6 1-0

Rebel - Y!88

Rebel operated by Jan Louwman, tried the same opening in round 7, but Y!88 deviated with 9...Bg4 and won ...

Ulf Rathsman and Sandro Necchi of Y!88

[Event "WMCCC 1988 (Software)"]
[Site "Almeria, Spain"]
[Date "1988.10.01"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Rebel"]
[Black "Y!88"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e3 e5 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3 5.dxc3 O-O 6.f3 d5 7.Bg5 dxe4 8.Qxd8 Rxd8 
9.fxe4 Bg4 10.Be2 Bxe2 11.Bxf6 Bf1 12.Kxf1 gxf6 13.Ke2 Nd7 14.Nf3 Nc5 15.Ke3 Na4 
16.Rhb1 b5 17.Ne1 c5 18.Kf3 Kg7 19.Rd1 Nxb2 20.Rdb1 Na4 21.Rxb5 Rac8 22.Rb7 Nxc3 
23.Rb3 Na4 24.Rb7 Rd4 25.Nd3 a6 26.Ke3 Rc4 27.Nb2 Nxb2 28.Rxb2 Rd8 29.Re1 Rc3+ 
30.Kf2 Rd2+ 31.Re2 Rxe2+ 32.Kxe2 Rxa3 33.Rb3 Rxb3 34.cxb3 Kg6 35.Ke3 Kg5 36.Kf3 
h5 37.Kg3 a5 38.h4+ Kg6 39.Kf3 f5 40.Ke3 Kf6 41.Kd3 c4+ 42.Kxc4 fxe4 43.Kc3 Kf5 
44.Kd2 Kf4 0-1

Tournament Director

Michael Valvo

Publications

David Levy (1988). 8th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4
Eric Hallsworth (1988). The 1988 World Micro Championship. Computer Chess News Sheet 20, pp 1, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Göran Grottling (1988). Thank you Mister Spock! Ein Interview mit Sid Samole. Modul 4/88, pp. 36-38 (German), pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis » Sidney Samole
Göran Grottling (1989). Interview - Sid Samole. Computer Chess News Sheet 23, pp 4, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Göran Grottling (1989). Eine Lebende Legende - Ein Interview mit Kathe Spracklen. Modul 1/89, pp. 41-45 (German),pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis
WMCCC 1988 articles Europa-Rochade, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German)
Hans-Peter Ketterling (1988). Die 8. Mikroschachcomputer - WM 1988 in Almeria (Teil I). Europa-Rochade, 11-1988
Hans-Peter Ketterling (1989). Die 8. Mikroschachcomputer - WM 1988 in Almeria (Teil II). Europa-Rochade, 01-1989
Hans-Peter Ketterling (1989). Die 8. Mikroschachcomputer - WM 1988 in Almeria (Teil III). Europa-Rochade, 03-1989
László Lindner (1989). Die wiederauferstandene Mikro-Weltmeisterschaft - 8. Mikroschachcomputer - WM 1988 in Almeria. Europa-Rochade, 01/02-1989

Forum Posts

Looking for games WCCC Almeria 1989 by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, January 12, 2006

External Links

References

^ David Levy (1988). 8th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4
^ Hotel PLAYADULCE - reservas - fotografias - precio - AGUADULCE (ALMERÍA) - HOTEL PLAYADULCE - MuchoViaje (Spanish)
^ WMCC 1988, CSVN tournament site
^ Images by László Lindner from László Lindner (1989).Die wiederauferstandene Mikro-Weltmeisterschaft - 8.Mikroschachcomputer - WM 1988 in Almeria. Europa-Rochade, 01/02-1989, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German)
^ Almeria 1988 - Chess (Software) - Round 1 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ 8th World Microcomputer Chess Championship (Software) - Almeria 1988 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Almeria 1988 - Chess (Software) - Round 2 - Game 2 (ICGA Tournaments)

What links here?

Page	Date Edited
Attila Kovács	Jan 7, 2016
Chat	Jan 7, 2016
Color Flipping	May 17, 2017
Dappet	Dec 12, 2016
David Levy	Jan 3, 2017
Göran Grottling	Dec 30, 2017
Hans-Peter Ketterling	Nov 23, 2016
Helmut Weigel	Dec 2, 2017
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Kempelen	Mar 24, 2016
Lars Hjörth	Sep 5, 2017
László Lindner	Sep 2, 2017
Mephisto	Dec 18, 2017
Mephisto Almeria	Sep 1, 2017
Netherlands-vs-Computers-1989	Mar 10, 2017
Pandix	Feb 4, 2017
Plymate	Jan 7, 2016
Quickstep	Jan 8, 2016
Sandro Necchi	Mar 19, 2016
Transposition	Jun 8, 2015
Ulf Rathsman	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1987	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 1988	Oct 27, 2016
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GerdIsenberg — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:46:40 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 9th WMCCC Portorož 1989
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		The Ninth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from September 9 to 16, 1989, Portorož, Slovenia (in 1989 the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), in the Ball Room of the Palace Hotel. This was the same room that the 15 year old Bobby Fischer played his first international tournament, the Portorož Interzonal in 1958 ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] .
Portorož, Palace Hotel ^[4]

Final Standing

9th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Software Group, Sep. 1989, Portorož YUG ^[5] ^[6]

#	Program	CC	Processor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	P	SoDOS
1	Mephisto X	GB	68030	2w½	5b1	8w1	7b1	3w1	9b1		4w1	6b1	6½	18¾
2	Mephisto MM V (Rebel) ^[7]	NL	6502 TK20 ^[8]	1b½	4w1	6b1		5w½	8b1	7w1	3b½		5½	15
3	Pandix	HU	x86	8w1	7b1		9w0	1b0	4w½	6b1	2w½	5b½	4½	10
4	AI Chess	US	x86	6w1	2b0	5w1	8b1	7w1	3b½	9w1	1b0		4½	9¼
5	Why Not 89	SE	6502 TK20 ^[9]	9b0	1w0	4b0	6w1	2b½		8w1	7b1	3w½	4	8
6	Paul	DE	x86	4b0		2w0	5b0	8w1	7b1	3w0		1w0	2	1
7	Kempelen Atari	HU	68000		3w0	9b0	1w0	4b0	6w0	2b0	5w0	8b1	1	0
8	Nightmare	DE	x86	3b0	9w0	1b0	4w0	6b0	2w0	5b0		7w0	0	0
9	Quickstep	DE		5w1	8b1	7w1	3b1		1w0	4b0	-	-	Disqualified

Participants

^[10]

Program	CC	Authors
AI Chess	US	Marty Hirsch
Kempelen Atari	HU	Attila Kovács
Mephisto X	GB	Richard Lang
Nightmare	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski
Pandix	HU	Gyula Horváth
Paul	DE	Christopher Lutz, Michael Schmitt
Quickstep	DE	Klaus Dieter Langer
Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder
Why Not 89	SE	Ulf Rathsman

CC Country Codes

Excursion

		The WMCCC excursion took place on Wednesday, September 13, visiting the Škocjan Caves and the Lipica Stud Farm. In consideration of the upcoming incident, not all participants were attending ^[11].
Škocjan Cave entrance ^[12]

Disqualification

The German entry Quickstep by Klaus Dieter Langer appeared to be a Clone of Mephisto Almeria. After a protest by Hegener & Glaser, and several meetings of the Tournament Directors with Mr. Langer, presenting the Mephisto evidence, Mr. Langer was not able or willing to provide any evidence Quickstep was original. After consultation with ICCA President David Levy, Quickstep and Mr. Langer were disqualified from the tournament ^[13] ^[14].

Titles

^[15]

World Micro Absolute Champion: Mephisto Portorose (claimed to be identical with Mephisto X) ^[16]
World Micro Manufacturers Champion: Mephisto Portorose (unchallenged)
World Micro Software Champion: Mephisto X
World Micro PC Champions: Pandix, AI Chess

Tournament Directors

Publications

Richard Lang (1989). The Ninth World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4
Jaap van den Herik, David Levy (1989). Disqualification at Portorož. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4
Thomas Mally (1989). Mikro-WM in Portorose (Portorož). Modul 3/89, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis
Eric Hallsworth (1990). World Micro Champs. Computer Chess News 25, pp 4, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

External Links

9th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
WMCC 1989, CSVN tournament site
The MM-V Machine at the World Championschip, Portorose, 1989 by Hans van Mierlo, ChessEval, February 2014
IX World Microcomputer Chess Championship PORTOROSE 1989, ChessEval, July 2014
9. WMCCC Portoroz 1989 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

References

^ Interzonals 1958: Portoroz from chessgames.com
^ JPEG BOBBY/1958 Bobby Fischer With some female admirers
^ JPEG BOBBY/1958 Svetozar Gligoric vs Bobby Fischer at the Portoroz Interzonals
^ Photo by Žiga, 2008, Kempinski Palace Portorož from Wikipedia
^ 9th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Portorož 1989 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ WMCC 1989, CSVN tournament site
^ The MM-V Machine at the World Championschip, Portorose, 1989 by Hans van Mierlo, ChessEval, February 09, 2014
^ 6502 compatible bit-slice unit by Schaetzle+Bsteh, TurboKit – Schachcomputer.info Wiki
^ 6502 compatible bit-slice unit by Schaetzle+Bsteh, TurboKit – Schachcomputer.info Wiki
^ 9th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Portorož 1989 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Thomas Mally (1989). Mikro-WM in Portorose (Portorož). Modul 3/89, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis
^ Škocjanske jame Cave entrance by Annebethmi, August 11, 2007, Škocjan Cave from Wikipedia
^ Jaap van den Herik, David Levy (1989). Disqualification at Portorož. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4
^ Re: The truth about Deep <9> : Remember Quick Step by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, March 15, 2003
^ WMCC 1989, CSVN tournament site
^ Mephisto Portorose 68030 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

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WMCCC 1990

GerdIsenberg — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:28:16 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 10th WMCCC Lyon 1990
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		The Tenth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from November 24 to 30, 1990, in the Palais des congrès de Lyon, Lyon, France, at the same time and the same place as the second leg of its human equivalent, the Kasparov - Karpov match ^[1] .
Palais des congrès ^[2]

Final Standing

10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Nov. 1990, Lyon FRA ^[3] ^[4]

#	Program	CC	Processor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Mephisto X (Lyon)	GB	68030 50 MHz	5w1	9b1	4w1	3b1	2w½	6b1	7w1	6½	27	24¼
2	Échec 1.9	FR	x86	3w½	10b½	7w1	4b1	1b½	5w1	8w1	5½	28	20¾
3	Gideon	NL	ARM2	2b½	11w1	9b1	1w0	5b1	4w1	6b1	5½	26½	17¼
4	The King	NL	ARM2	6w1	7b1	1b0	2w0	10w1	3b0	12w1	4	27½	10
5	Check Check	DE	x86	1b0	12w1	11b1	6w½	3w0	2b0	10w1	3½	26	7
6	Patzer	DE	x86	4b0	8w½	12b1	5b½	7w1	1w0	3w0	3	27	7¾
7	Chess Simulator	GB	68030	8w1	4w0	2b0	11b1	6b0	9w1	1b0	3	26	7
8	BB	FR	x86	7b0	6b½	10w0	12w½	9b1	11w1	2b0	3	19½	6¼
9	Cumulus	FR	x86	12b1	1w0	3w0	10b½	8w0	7b0	11w1	2½	23½	4¼
10	Nightmare	DE	x86	11b0	2w½	8b1	9w½	4b0	12w½	5b0	2½	21½	7¾
11	Delta	NL	x86	10w1	3b0	5w0	7w0	12b½	8b0	9b0	1½	21½	3¼
12	Nest	FR	x86	9w0	5b0	6w0	8b½	11w½	10b½	4b0	1½	20	3½

Participants

^[5]

Program	CC	Authors
BB	FR	Christophe Jolly
Check Check	DE	Wolfgang Delmare
Chess Simulator	GB	Chris Whittington
Cumulus	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill
Delta	NL	Fré Felkers
Échec 1.9	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill
Gideon	NL	Ed Schröder
Mephisto X (Lyon)	GB	Richard Lang
Nest	FR	Bruno Bras
Nightmare	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski
Patzer	DE	Werner Koch, Thomas Schäfer
The King	NL	Johan de Koning

CC Country Codes

Draw by Reputation

In round five, the mighty Mephisto by Richard Lang played Échec 1.9 by Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill, and around move 23 the Mephisto team were clearly getting desperate and beginning to envisage the horrifying prospect of losing a lot of prestige - and maybe even the world champion title. Just a few moves later, with Mephisto the exchange down and showing an evaluation of -2, Échec began to repeat moves, and a draw by repetition was fixed on move 32. The explanation was the amateurs had set their contempt factor to no less than four Pawns. As Mike Valvo remarked in the bulletin: this particular draw by repetition might better be labeled a draw by reputation ^[6].

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[Event "WMCCC 1990"]
[Site "Lyon, France"]
[Date "1990.01.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Mephisto X"]
[Black "Échec 1.9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
 
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bf4 Bf5 7.e3 e6 8.Ne5 Nxe5 9.Bxe5 Nd7
10.Qb3 Nxe5 11.dxe5 Be7 12.Qxb7 O-O 13.Rc1 Rb8 14.Qxa7 Rxb2 15.a3 f6 16.exf6 Bxf6 17.Nd1 Ra2
18.Bb5 Qd6 19.Qc5 Qxc5 20.Rxc5 Rxa3 21.Rc6 Ra2 22.Be2 Bd8 23.h4 Ba5+ 24.Kf1 Bc2 25.Rxc2 Rxc2
26.h5 Rc1 27.h6 Bb6 28.hxg7 Kxg7 29.Ke1 Ba5+ 30.Kf1 Bb6 31.Ke1 Ba5+ 32.Kf1 Bb6 1/2-1/2

Tournament Director

Mike Valvo

Publications

Thomas Mally (1990). The 10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4
Eric Hallsworth (1991). World Micro-Computer Championship, Lyon. Selective Search 32, pp 4, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

External Links

10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Lyon 1990 (ICGA Tournaments)
WMCC 1990, CSVN tournament site
10. WMCCC Lyon 1990 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

References

^ World Chess Championship : 1990 Kasparov - Karpov
^ View of the Salle 3000 in Lyon from an helicopter, Photo by Rgaudin, October 03, 2007, Palais des congrès de Lyon from Wikipedia
^ WMCC 1990, CSVN tournament site
^ 10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Lyon 1990 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ 10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Lyon 1990 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Thomas Mally (1990). The 10th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4
^ Lyon 1990, Chess, Round 5, Game 3 from ICGA Tournaments

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ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
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WMCCC 1991

GerdIsenberg — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 08:36:20 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 11th WMCCC Vancouver 1991
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		The Eleventh World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from May 1 to 9, 1991, at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ^[1]. Fifteen programs from seven countries contested for the main title, and the subsidiary titles of PC Champion and Amateur Champion. The category of Manufacturers Champion was won by default by Mephisto Vancouver. Ed Schröder's Gideon on an ARM2 plugin card, operated by Jan Louwman, won with 6/7 points, only losing to Mephisto X in the last round. Mephisto on the other hand lost round 2 and 3 from The King and MChess.
Vancouver Campus ^[2]

Final Standing

11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, May 1991, Vancouver CAN ^[3] ^[4]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	P	SOS	SoDOS	G
1	Gideon	NL	15b1	12w1	4b1	2w1	6b1	5w1	3b0	6	27½	22½	7
2	MChess	US	9w1	5b½	3w1	1b0	4b1	6w1	8w1	5½	31½	23¼	7
3	Mephisto X (Vancouver)	GB	8b1	4w0	2b0	7w1	11b1	10w1	1w1	5	30½	20	7
4	The King	NL	13w1	3b1	1w0	5b1	2w0	12b1	9w1	5	29½	18	7
5	Saitek-X	US	7b1	2w½	6b1	4w0	10b1	1b0	12w1	4½	30½	16¾	7
6	Hiarcs	GB	bye	9b1	5w0	12w1	1w0	2b0	13b1	4	24½	8½	6
7	Now	US	5w0	10b0	13w1	3b0	bye	15w1	14w1	4	19	6	6
8	Brainstorm	HU	3w0	11b1	10w½	9b½	12b½	13w1	2b0	3½	25½	10¼	7
9	Nightmare	DE	2b0	6w0	bye	8w½	14b1	11w1	4b0	3½	23½	7¼	6
10	Échec	FR	12b0	7w1	8b½	14w1	5w0	3b0	15b1	3½	23	9¼	7
11	Patzer	DE	14b1	8w0	12b0	15w1	3w0	9b0	bye	3	18	3½	6
12	Cumulus	FR	10w1	1b0	11w1	6b0	8w½	4w0	5b0	2½	29½	8¼	7
13	Woodpusher	GB	4b0	14w½	7b0	bye	15b1	8b0	6w0	2½	20	2¼	6
14	Innovation	US	11w0	13b½	15w1	10b0	9w0	bye	7b0	2½	17½	2¼	6
15	Centaur	RU	1w0	bye	14b0	11b0	13w0	7b0	10w0	1	21½	0	6

Participants

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Program	CC	Authors	Processor	MHz	Nodes per second	Language
Brainstorm	HU	Gyula Horváth	68020	6	800	Assembly
Centaur	RU	Victor Vikhrev, Alexey Manjakhin	486	33	30	Pascal
Cumulus	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill	R3200	20	1300	C
Échec	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill	486	33	4000	C
Gideon	NL	Ed Schröder, Jan Louwman	ARM2	32	6800	Assembly
Hiarcs	GB	Mark Uniacke	SPARC	25	2500	C
Innovation	US	Jeff Mallett	68030	40	?	C
MChess	US	Marty Hirsch	486	33	4500	C + Assembly
Mephisto X (Vancouver)	GB	Richard Lang	68030	50	10000	Assembly
Nightmare	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski	386	23	1200	C
Now	US	Mark Lefler	386	40	5000	Pascal
Patzer	DE	Werner Koch, Thomas Schäfer	386	25	1000	C
Saitek-X	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen	SPARC	25	10000	Assembly
The King	NL	Johan de Koning	ARM2	32	4000	C + Assembly
Woodpusher	GB	John Hamlen	486	25	6000	C

CC Country Codes

Photos

Jan Louwman (Gideon) and Berthold Seifriz playing or analyzing ^[6]

Titles

World Micro Manufacturers Champion: Mephisto by default
World Microcomputer Chess Champion: Gideon
World Micro Absolute Champions: Mephisto and Gideon after the play-off was drawn
World Micro PC Champion: MChess
World Micro Amateur Champion: Hiarcs

Tournament Director

Mike Valvo

Publications

Don Beal (1991). Report on the 11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2
Mike Valvo (1991). Results and Selected Games of the 11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2
Eric Hallsworth (1991). World Championship 1991, Vancouver. Selective Search 35, pp. 21, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Eric Hallsworth (1991). World Micro Games, Vancouver 1991. Selective Search 36, pp. 11, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Chess by Robert Byrne, New York Times, June 25, 1991 - on Chess Machine Gideon versus Cumulus ^[7]

Forum Posts

11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship by Karen Richards, rec.games.chess, May 05, 1991

External Links

11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
WMCC 1991, CSVN tournament site
XI World Microcomputer Chess Championship VANCOUVER 1991, ChessEval, July 2014
11. WMCCC Vancouver 1991 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

References

^ David Levy (1990). The 1991 World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Entry Form. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4
^ University of British Columbia from Wikipedia
^ WMCC 1991, CSVN tournament site
^ 11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Vancouver 1991 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Don Beal (1991). Report on the 11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2
^ Photo by Gaby von Rekowski / Reinhold Gellner, ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 91
^ Vancouver 1991 - Chess - Round 2 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)

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Don Beal	Jul 27, 2017
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Ed Schroder	Feb 26, 2018
Gideon	Feb 26, 2018
Hiarcs	Feb 25, 2018
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Innovation	Jun 12, 2016
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MChess	Feb 26, 2018
Mephisto	Dec 18, 2017
Mephisto Risc	Sep 1, 2017
Mephisto Vancouver	Sep 2, 2017
Nightmare GER	Dec 12, 2016
Now	Jan 7, 2016
Pandix	Feb 4, 2017
Patzer (K)	Jul 18, 2012
Rebel	Feb 25, 2018
Tapered Eval	Jan 9, 2018
The King	Jan 21, 2018
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WMCCC 1993

GerdIsenberg — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:59:28 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 12th WMCCC Munich 1993
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		The Twelfth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from October 31 to November 7, 1993, at Weinfurtner's Garden-Hotel ^[1] , Munich Schwabing, Bavaria, Germany. The WMCCC 1993 was organized by the ICCA and editors of the German computer chess magazine Computerschach und Spiele, which was also primary sponsor of the event ^[2]. Three dedicated machines played in the Manufacturers Group, each playing eight with each of the other two. The Software Group was well attended with 28 programs contesting a nine round Swiss tournament.
Neuschwanstein Excursion, November 4th ^[3]

Software Group

^[4]

Final Standing

12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1993, München GER ^[5] ^[6]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Hiarcs	GB	11w1	16b1	2w½	10b1	4w0	13b1	8b1	3w1	6w1	7½	49	39½
2	The King	NL	14b1	7w1	1b½	13w½	3b½	9w1	5b1	4w½	10b1	7	50	38
3	Genius 2	GB	17w1	8b1	10w1	4b½	2w½	5w0	9b1	1b0	13b1	6	51	31½
4	Nimzo-Guernica	AT	25b1	15w1	5b1	3w½	1b1	8w0	10w½	2b½	7w½	6	49½	32¼
5	Mephisto Gideon	NL	26w1	13b½	4w0	12b1	23w1	3b1	2w0	10b½	8b½	5½	45½	25
6	Quest	NL	12b0	11w1	21b0	18w1	7b½	14w1	16b1	8w1	1b0	5½	45	26¼
7	Pandix	HU	19w1	2b0	16w½	24b1	6w½	10b0	13w1	11w1	4b½	5½	45	25
8	Kallisto	NL	28b1	3w0	18b1	21w1	15b1	4b1	1w0	6b0	5w½	5½	43	21¼
9	MChess Pro X	US	21b0	24w1	14b1	22w1	13b½	2b0	3w0	16w1	15b1	5½	41½	22¾
10	Bobby II	DE	18b1	21w1	3b0	1w0	22b1	7w1	4b½	5w½	2w0	5	48½	22¼
11	Mirage	RU	1b0	6b0	19w1	14w½	25b1	15w½	12w1	7b0	23w1	5	43	20
12	Ulysses	DE	6w1	23b½	13w0	5w0	20b1	22w½	11b0	18b1	19w1	5	39½	21
13	Écume X	FR	20w1	5w½	12b1	2b½	9w½	1w0	7b0	23b1	3w0	4½	49½	21½
14	Now	US	2w0	19b1	9w0	11b½	21w1	6b0	22b1	15w0	25w1	4½	41½	16½
15	Kasparov Sparc	US	27w1	4b0	23w½	16b1	8w0	11b½	18w½	14b1	9w0	4½	40½	17¼
16	Greif	DE	22b1	1w0	7b½	15w0	17w1	23b1	6w0	9b0	28b1	4½	40½	14¾
17	Nightmare	DE	3b0	28w1	22b0	20w½	16b0	19w1	26b0	27w1	24w1	4½	31	12
18	Centaur	RU	10w0	26b1	8w0	6b0	24w1	21b1	15b½	12w0	27b½	4	37½	13¼
19	SOS	DE	7b0	14w0	11b0	28w1	26w1	17b0	27w1	21b1	12b0	4	33½	9
20	Magellan	AT	13b0	22w0	28b1	17b½	12w0	27b1	23w0	26b1	21w½	4	30	9½
21	Gandalf	DK	9w1	10b0	6w1	8b0	14b0	18w0	25b1	19w0	20b½	3½	41	16
22	Experimental	DE	16w0	20b1	17w1	9b0	10w0	12b½	14w0	24b0	26w1	3½	39½	14
23	Breakthrough	DE	24b½	12w½	15b½	25w1	5b0	16w0	20b1	13w0	11b0	3½	39½	13½
24	Diogenes	DE	23w½	9b0	27w1	7w0	18b0	25w½	28b½	22w1	17b0	3½	32	9
25	Viktor 2	DE	4w0	27b½	26w1	23b0	11w0	24b½	21w0	28w1	14b0	3	31½	6¼
26	Chess Brain	DE	5b0	18w0	25b0	27b1	19b0	28b1	17w1	20w0	22b0	3	31	7
27	BB	FR	15b0	25w½	24b0	26w0	28w1	20w0	19b0	17b0	18w½	2	31	4
28	Pschach	DE	8w0	17b0	20w0	19b0	27b0	26w0	24w½	25b0	16w0	½	34	1¾

Participants

Program	CC	Authors	Processor	MHz
BB	FR	Christophe Jolly	486	66
Bobby II	DE	Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer	486	66
Breakthrough	DE	Werner Koch	SPARC	36
Centaur	RU	Victor Vikhrev, Alexey Manjakhin	486	66
Chess Brain	DE	Karl-Heinz Milaster	Pentium ^[7] ^[8]	66
Diogenes	DE	Jörg Burwitz	486	66
Écume X	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill	486	66
Experimental	DE	Wolfgang Delmare, Thorsten Kohfeldt	Pentium	60
Gandalf	DK	Steen Suurballe, Dan Wulff	486	66
Genius 2	GB	Richard Lang	Pentium	60
Greif	DE	Michael Ehrig	486	66
Hiarcs	GB	Mark Uniacke	SPARC	36
Kallisto	NL	Bart Weststrate	486	66
Kasparov Sparc	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen	SPARC	50
Magellan	AT	Karl Pevny	486	66
MChess Pro X	US	Marty Hirsch	Pentium	60
Mephisto Gideon	NL	Ed Schröder	Pentium	60
Mirage	RU	Yuri Shpeer, Vladimir Rybinkin	486	66
Nightmare	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski	486	66
Nimzo-Guernica	AT	Chrilly Donninger	486	80
Now	US	Mark Lefler	486	66
Pandix	HU	Gyula Horváth, Zsuzsa Horváth	486	66
Pschach	DE	Peter Sucker	486	66
Quest	NL	Frans Morsch	486	66
SOS	DE	Rudolf Huber	486	66
The King	NL	Johan de Koning	DEC Alpha	150
Ulysses	DE	Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann	SPARC	41
Viktor 2	DE	Wolfgang Rausch, Dieter Götz	486	66

CC Country Codes

Manufacturers Group

^[9]

Final Standing

#	Program	CC	P	G
1	Mephisto Genius 2	GB	10½	16
2	TASC R30	NL	10	16
3	RISC 2500	NL	3½	16

CC Country Codes

Participants

Program	CC	Authors	Processor	MHz	Company
Mephisto Genius 2	GB	Richard Lang	486	80	Hegener & Glaser
RISC 2500	NL	Johan de Koning	ARM6	14	Saitek
TASC R30	NL	Johan de Koning	ARM6	40	TASC

CC Country Codes

Playoff

The playoff between the winner of the Manufacturers Group, Mephisto Genius 2 the so called Mephisto Wundermaschine (Mephisto Wonder Machine), running Genius on an internal 80486 PC, and the winner of the Software Group, Hiarcs, for the title of the World Micro Absolute Champion was won by Mephisto Genius with 1½ - ½.

Titles

World Chess Computer Manufacturers' Champion: Mephisto Genius 2
World Microcomputer Chess Software Champion: Hiarcs
Absolute World Microcomputer Chess Champion: Mephisto Genius 2
Amateur World Champion: Hiarcs

Photos

^[10]



Computerschach und Spiele team, Frederic Friedel, Jens Schmidt-Wilke, Dieter Steinwender

Chrilly Donninger, Reinhold Gellner and MChess operator Berthold Seifriz


Playoff Wundermaschine vs. Hiarcs, Richard Lang, David Levy, Mark's father and Mark Uniacke


The New Champion		ICCA President Tony Marsland, prize ceremony

Notable Games

^[11]

Nimzo's White-Black Bug

Round 3, Mephisto Gideon - Nimzo-Guernica

[Event "WMCCC 1993"]
[Site "Munich, Germany"]
[Date "1993.11.01"]
[Round "03"]
[White "Mephisto Gideon"]
[Black "Nimzo-Guernica"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f4 e6 7.Be2 Be7 8.O-O O-O
9.Be3 Qc7 10.Kh1 b5 11.Bf3 Bb7 12.e5 dxe5 13.fxe5 Nfd7 14.Bxb7 Qxb7 15.Qh5 b4 
16.Nce2 g6 17.Qf3 Qxf3 18.Nxf3 Nc6 19.Bf4 Rfd8 20.Ned4 Nxd4 21.Nxd4 Rac8 22.Rad1 
Nb6 23.b3 Bc5 24.Nf3 Rxd1 25.Rxd1 Nd5 26.Bh6 Be3 27.Bxe3 Nxe3 28.Rd3 Nxc2 29.Kg1 
Na3 30.Rd4 a5 31.Rd7 Nb5 32.Ng5 Rc7 33.Rxc7 Nxc7 34.Ne4 Nd5 35.Kf2 Kf8 36.Nd6 Nc3 
37.Ke3 h6 38.Kd4 Nxa2 39.Nc4 Ke8 40.Nxa5 Kd7 41.Nb7 Nc3 42.Kc5 Nd5 43.g3 h5 
44.Nd6 Ke7 45.Nb5 f6 46.exf6+ Kxf6 47.Nd4 Ne3 48.Kxb4 Nf1 49.Ka5 e5 50.Ne2 Nxh2 
51.b4 Nf1 52.b5 Nd2 53.Kb6 Ke6 54.Kc7 Nc4 55.Kc6 Na5+ 56.Kb6 Nb3 57.Kb7 Kd6 58.Nc3 
Nc5+ 59.Ka7 Ne6 60.b6 Nd8 61.b7 Nxb7 62.Kxb7 Kc5 63.Ne2 Kd5 64.Ng1 e4 65.Kb6 e3 
66.Kb5 Kd4 67.Kc6 Kd3 68.Nf3 e2 0-1

As reported by Chrilly Donninger ^[12], Nimzo happily sacrificed the knight with 61... Nxb7, winning the game due to a bug. A winning score was given, applying the Rule of the Square for its black passer. Instead, as intended, with White having no pieces to make the e-pawn unstoppable, the winning score was enabled by Black without pieces ^[13]!

3n4/KP6/3k2p1/4p2p/8/2N3P1/8/8 b - - 0 61

Desperado

Round 8, The King - Nimzo-Guernica » Desperado ^[14]

[Event "WMCCC 1993"]
[Site "Munich, Germany"]
[Date "1993.11.06"]
[Round "8"]
[White "The King"]
[Black "Nimzo Guernica"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
 
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 Qc7 
9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. Bd3 b5 11. Kb1 b4 12. Nce2 Bb7 13. Rhe1 h6 14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15. Qe3 Qc5 
16. Qg1 g5 17. Nb3 Qxg1 18. Rxg1 Bd8 19. Nd2 Nc5 20. Rgf1 O-O 21. Nd4 a5 22. fxg5 Bxg5
23. N4b3 Nxd3 24. cxd3 Rfc8 25. Nd4 d5 26. e5 a4 27. Nc2 b3 28. axb3 Ba6 29. Rf3 Bxd2 
30. Rxd2 axb3 31. Na3 Bb5 32. d4 Ba4 33. Rf6 Kg7 34. Rd3 Rc7 35. Rg3+ Kh7 36. Rgf3 Kg7 
37. Rf1 Rb8 38. R6f3 Rd8 39. h4 Rdc8 40. g4 Rb8 41. g5 hxg5 42. Rg3 Kh6 43. Rxg5 Be8 
44. Rgg1 f5 45. exf6 Bg6+ 46. Ka1 Rb4 47. h5 Bf5 48. Rf3 Rf7 49. Rfg3 Rxf6 50. Rh1 Be4 
51. Rhg1 Rf8 52. Rh3 Bf5 53. Rf3 Ra8 54. Rf2 Rxd4 55. Re2 Kxh5 56. Rh2+ Rh4 57. Rhg2 d4 
58. Rg5+ Kh6 59. Rh5+ Kxh5 60. Rg5+ Kh6 1/2-1/2

Broken Interface

In the last round, Kasparov Sparc, operated by Günter Niggemann lost due to hardware problems and finally a broken interface cable and card in a better position from MChess operated by Thorsten Czub. See Mclane's post in rgcc for the whole story ^[15]:

[Event "WMCCC 1993"]
[Site "Munich, Germany"]
[Date "1993.11.07"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kasparov Sparc"]
[Black "MChess Pro X"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qb3 c5 5. dxc5 Nc6 6. Nf3 Ne4 7. Bd2 Nxd2 8. Nxd2 f5 
9. e3 O-O 10. Be2 Bxc5 11. O-O-O b6 12. Nf3 Bb7 13. Rd2 Qe7 14. Rhd1 Rfd8 15. a3 Rac8 
16. Qc2 Qe8 17. Kb1 Be7 18. e4 Na5 19. exf5 Bxf3 20. gxf3 Nxc4 21. Bxc4 Rxc4 22. Qb3 Rc6 
23. Nb5 a5 24. Na7 a4 25. Qxa4 Rc7 26. Nb5 Rc5 27. fxe6 Qg6+ 28. Ka1 Qxe6 29. Nc3 d6 
30. Nd5 Bg5 31. f4 b5 32. Qd4 Bh6 0-1

Tournament Directors

Cartoon

Ossi Weiner, Frederic Friedel - David Levy, Mark Uniacke, Richard Lang, Manfred Hegener
Alexey Manjakhin, Karl-Heinz Milaster, Tony Marsland, Mark Lefler, Dieter Steinwender (Floppy)
Bart Weststrate, Ed Schröder, Johan de Koning, Frans Morsch ^[16]

Publications

Jan Louwman (1993). The 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4
Frederic Friedel, Dieter Steinwender (1993). Results and Selected Games of the 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4
Kurt Utzinger (1993). Ein Schweizer in München. PC Schach 3/93 (German)
Andreas Mader (1993). Die Österreicher Kommen! PC Schach 3/93 (German)
Göran Grottling (1993). Interview mit Mark Uniacke. PC Schach 3/93 (German)
Eric Hallsworth (1993/1994). World Computer Champs Munich 1993. Selective Search 49, pp. 4, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Eric Hallsworth (1994). World Computer Champs Munich 1993 - Games. Selective Search 50, pp. 9, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Larry Kaufman (1994). 1993 World Microcomputer Championship. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 4 No. 2

Forum Posts

12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship Results by Tony Marsland, rec.games.chess, November 8, 1993
World Microcomputer Championships by Stefan Hahndel, rec.games.chess, November 8, 1993
Munich 12th World Micro Computer Chess Championship Games by Jean-Christophe Weill, rec.games.chess, November 12, 1993
HIARCS 2.0 Chess Program by Bryant Fujimoto, rec.games.chess, December 5, 1993

External Links

12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
WMCC 1993, CSVN tournament site
Downloads | World championships | Games, CSVN download site
World Microcomputer Chess Championship : 12th WMCCC : 1993 Munich
12. WMCCC München 1993 from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)
Frank Zappa - Sofa No. 2, Circus Krone, Munich, 1978, YouTube Video
Frank Zappa, Ike Willis, Denny Walley, Tommy Mars, Peter Wolf, Ed Mann, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta

References

^ Now Fleming’s Hotel Munich Schwabing
^ David Levy (1993). The 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Information for Participants. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3
^ Neuschwanstein Castle is a famous German castle in Schwangau, Bavaria, built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Photo by Cezary Piwowarski, June 2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, Schloss Neuschwanstein - Wikimedia Commons, Neuschwanstein Castle from Wikipedia
^ Larry Kaufman (1994). 1993 World Microcomputer Championship. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 4 No. 2
^ WMCC 1993, CSVN tournament site
^ 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Munich 1993 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Pentium PC plus Chess Co-Processor
^ Karl-Heinz Milaster's schachserver (German)
^ Larry Kaufman (1994). 1993 World Microcomputer Championship. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 4 No. 2
^ Hiarcs Fan Page by Thorsten Czub
^ Downloads | World championships | Games, CSVN download site
^ Chrilly Donninger (1999). Computer machen keine Fehler. CSS 2/99, pdf (German)
^ Your best bug ? by Ed Schröder, CCC, August 06, 2012
^ Re: Your best bug ? by Ed Schröder, CCC, August 07, 2012
^ CSS Article Translation Oct 24 by Rolf Tüschen, rgcc, February 12, 1997, post 13 by mclane, February 15, 1997
^ Diaz Cartoon from the WMCCC 1993 booklet from Computerschach und Spiele, via More DIAZ Cartoons hosted by Ed Schröder

What links here?

Page	Date Edited
Andreas Mader	Dec 30, 2017
BB	Jan 8, 2016
Berthold Seifriz	Jun 9, 2016
BreakThrough	Nov 26, 2016
Cartoons	Dec 1, 2017
Chess Brain	Jun 25, 2017
Chess Genius	Feb 26, 2018
Chris Whittington	Dec 9, 2017
Christophe Jolly	Jan 8, 2016
Dieter Steinwender	Jul 4, 2016
Diogenes	Jan 8, 2016
Écume	Jan 7, 2016
Engine Testing	Feb 1, 2018
Experimental	Jan 8, 2016
Frederic Friedel	Jan 6, 2018
Gandalf	Jan 21, 2018
Göran Grottling	Dec 30, 2017
Greif	May 17, 2016
Günter Niggemann	Dec 10, 2011
Hiarcs	Feb 25, 2018
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
Jan Louwman	Dec 4, 2016
Kallisto	Oct 28, 2017
Karl Pevny	Jan 8, 2016
Karl-Heinz Milaster	Jan 8, 2016
Kasparov Sparc	Jan 17, 2017
Kurt Utzinger	Dec 30, 2017
Magellan	Jan 8, 2016
Mark Uniacke	Dec 12, 2016
Mephisto	Dec 18, 2017
Mephisto Genius 68030	Sep 2, 2017
Mephisto Wundermaschine	Sep 2, 2017
Michael Ehrig	May 17, 2016
Mirage	Jul 12, 2016
Nightmare GER	Dec 12, 2016
Nimzo	Dec 30, 2017
Now	Jan 7, 2016
Ossi Weiner	Dec 18, 2017
PC Schach	Dec 30, 2017
Peter Sucker	Mar 22, 2016
Pschach	Mar 22, 2016
Reinhold Gellner	Jun 15, 2016
RISC 2500	Jan 7, 2016
SOS	Apr 5, 2017
Stalemate	Feb 21, 2018
Tasc R30	Sep 7, 2017
Thorsten Kohfeldt	Jan 8, 2016
Ulysses	Nov 1, 2016
Werner Koch	Jan 8, 2016
Who's Who	Sep 6, 2017
WMCCC 1991	Sep 18, 2016
WMCCC 1993	Dec 30, 2017
WMCCC 1995	Jan 3, 2018
Wolfgang Rausch	Jul 23, 2012
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016

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		The Thirteenth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from October 10-15, 1995, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany. Two Computer World Championships in one year. After the 8th World Computer Chess Championship in Shatin, Hong Kong - China in May, the 13th WMCCC in Paderborn was held in October, hosted and organized by the ICCA and the University of Paderborn. There were 34 participants, a record so far, 14 programs from Germany, four Dutch and British each, three from United States and Russia, one each from Austria, France, Denmark, Israel, Spain and Switzerland. The 13. WMCCC was simultaneously the 5th International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship.
Paderborn town hall ^[1]

Final Standing

13th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1995, Paderborn GER ^[2] ^[3]

#	program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	P	SOS	SoDOS
01	MChess Pro 5.0	US	18w1	20b1	11w1	13b½	19w½	17b1	6w1	3b0	2b½	7w1	4b½	8	70½	49¾
02	Chess Genius	GB	14b1	3w0	29b1	26w0	12b1	11b1	27w1	13b1	1w½	6w1	7b½	8	67½	48
03	Ferret	US	33w1	2b1	19w0	27b1	10w1	16w½	13b1	1w1	6b0	4b½	9w½	7½	68	46
04	Nimzo 3	AT	6b0	28w1	14b½	7w0	23b1	20b1	26w1	16w1	17b1	3w½	1w½	7½	65½	40¾
05	Virtual Chess	FR	23b½	8w0	18b½	30b1	20w1	10b½	17w1	9w½	16b1	13b½	6w1	7½	64	42
06	Quest	NL	4w1	10b1	27w1	19b1	16b½	13w½	1b0	7w1	3w1	2b0	5b0	7	73	43¾
07	DarkThought	DE	15w½	21b1	13w0	4b1	14b1	19w1	16b1	6b0	8w1	1b0	2w½	7	71	43
08	The King	NL	21w½	5b1	16b0	18w1	17b0	14w1	11b½	10w1	7b0	22w1	13w1	7	66	42¼
09	Hiarcs X	GB	31b1	11w0	26b0	22w½	18b½	29w1	25w1	5b½	19w1	10b1	3b½	7	60½	36¾
10	Kallisto	NL	32b1	6w0	12b1	23w1	3b0	5w½	19b1	8b0	26w1	9w0	22b1	6½	65½	33¼
11	Gandalf	DK	25w1	9b1	1b0	17w0	29b1	2w0	8w½	27b1	13w0	26b1	16w1	6½	65	34
12	Junior	IL	29w1	27b0	10w0	28b1	2w0	22w1	14b½	26b0	23w1	17w1	19b1	6½	58½	32
13	Shredder	DE	16b½	17w1	7b1	1w½	26b1	6b½	3w0	2w0	11b1	5w½	8b0	6	74	37½
14	Bobby II	DE	2w0	33b1	4w½	24b1	7w0	8b0	12w½	22b0	34w1	27w1	28b1	6	58	24
15	XXXX	DE	7b½	16w0	17b0	31w1	22b½	21w0	28b½	30b1	25w1	19w½	26b1	6	54½	27¾
16	Schach 3	DE	13w½	15b1	8w1	20b1	6w½	3b½	7w0	4b0	5w0	21b1	11b0	5½	72	33¼
17	IsiChess 2.0	DE	22w½	13b0	15w1	11b1	8w1	1w0	5b0	24b1	4w0	12b0	20w1	5½	70	32
18	Amy II	DE	1b0	30w1	5w½	8b0	9w½	28w1	21b0	25b½	24w0	31w1	32b1	5½	60	25¼
19	Cheiron	DE	34b1	26w1	3b1	6w0	1b½	7b0	10w0	21w1	9b0	15b½	12w0	5	65	24
20	Mephisto Montreux	NL	28b1	1w0	25b1	16w0	5b0	4w0	29b1	23b½	21w½	24w1	17b0	5	62½	23½
21	Dragon	RU	08b½	7w0	22b½	25w1	27w0	15b1	18w1	19b0	20b½	16w0	30b½	5	59½	27
22	Centaur-M	RU	17b½	23w0	21w½	9b½	15w½	12b0	34w1	14w1	27b1	8b0	10w0	5	59	22¼
23	Comet	DE	5w½	22b1	24w½	10b0	4w0	25b0	33b½	20w½	12b0	32w1	34b1	5	54½	18¾
24	Alpha I	DE	26b0	32w1	23b½	14w0	28b0	31b1	30w1	17w0	18b1	20b0	29w½	5	51	21
25	Stobor	US	11b0	34w1	20w0	21b0	32w1	23w1	09b0	18w½	15b0	33b½	31w1	5	50	16¼
26	Chess System Tal	GB	24w1	19b0	9w1	2b1	13w0	27b½	4b0	12w1	10b0	11w0	15w0	4½	68½	28¾
27	Zeus	ES	30b1	12w1	6b0	3w0	21b1	26w½	2b0	11w0	22w0	14b0	33w1	4½	63	20¾
28	Mirage	RU	20w0	4b0	32b1	12w0	24w1	18b0	15w½	31b0	33b1	34w1	14w0	4½	51½	14½
29	Diogenes 2.0	DE	12b0	31w1	2w0	33b1	11w0	9b0	20w0	34b1	32w½	30b0	24b½	4	52	10¾
30	Gromit	DE	27w0	18b0	34b1	5w0	33b½	32w1	24b0	15w0	31b0	29w1	21w½	4	47½	11½
31	Nightmare	DE	9w0	29b0	33w½	15b0	34b1	24w0	32b0	28w1	30w1	18b0	25b0	3½	47½	10
32	BreakThrough	DE	10w0	24b0	28w0	34w1	25b0	30b0	31w1	33w1	29b½	23b0	18w0	3½	46	8½
33	Francesca	GB	3b0	14w0	31b½	29w0	30w½	34b1	23w½	32b0	28w0	25w½	27b0	3	47½	8¾
34	Ananse 2.0	CH	19w0	25b0	30w0	32b0	31w0	33w0	22b0	29w0	14b0	28b0	23w0	0	48½	0

Participants

13th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1995, Paderborn GER ^[4]

Program	CC	Authors	Operators	Hardware	MHz
Alpha I	DE	Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz		Sparc 20	70
Amy II	DE	Thorsten Greiner		Sparc 20	70
Ananse 2.0	CH	Walter Bannerman		Pentium	100
Bobby II	DE	Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer		Pentium	120
BreakThrough	DE	Werner Koch		Sparc 10	60
Centaur-M	RU	Victor Vikhrev, Alexey Manjakhin		Pentium	120
Cheiron	DE	Ulf Lorenz		Pentium	120
Chess Genius	GB	Richard Lang, Ossi Weiner		Pentium	120
Chess System Tal	GB	Chris Whittington	Thorsten Czub	Pentium	120
Comet	DE	Ulrich Türke		Pentium	120
DarkThought	DE	Ernst A. Heinz, Markus Gille, Peter Gillgasch		DEC Alpha
Diogenes 2.0	DE	Jörg Burwitz		Pentium	120
Dragon	RU	Yuri Shpeer		Pentium	120
Ferret	US	Bruce Moreland		Pentium	120
Francesca	GB	Tom King		Pentium	120
Gandalf	DK	Steen Suurballe, Dan Wulff		Pentium	120
Gromit	DE	Frank Schneider		Pentium	120
Hiarcs X	GB	Mark Uniacke, Eric Hallsworth	Karsten Bauermeister	Pentium	133
IsiChess 2.0	DE	Gerd Isenberg		Pentium	120
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky	local staff	Pentium	120
Kallisto	NL	Bart Weststrate		Pentium	120
MChess Pro 5.0	US	Marty Hirsch	Peter Schreiner	Pentium	120
Mephisto Montreux	NL	Johan de Koning		ARM6	14
Mirage	RU	Yuri Shpeer, Vladimir Rybinkin		Pentium	120
Nightmare	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski		Pentium	120
Nimzo 3	AT	Chrilly Donninger		Pentium	133
Quest	NL	Frans Morsch		Pentium	120
Schach 3	DE	Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair		Pentium	120
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen		Sparc 20	70
Stobor	US	Tom Kerrigan		Sparc 20	70
The King	NL	Johan de Koning		Pentium	120
Virtual Chess	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill		Pentium	120
XXXX	DE	Martin Zentner		Pentium	133
Zeus	ES	Gerardo Castaño Recio		Pentium	120

CC Country Codes

Photos & Games

Round 7, MChess Pro 5.0 operated by Peter Schreiner (right) vs. Quest by Frans Morsch ^[5] ^[6]

[Event "WMCCC 1995"]
[Site "Paderborn, Germany"]
[Date "1995.10.12"]
[Round "7"]
[White "MChess Pro 5.0"]
[Black "Quest"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d3 Bb4 5.Ne2 Na5 6.Bb3 O-O 7.O-O d6 8.Bg5 c6 9.d4 Bg4
10.f3 Bh5 11.Na4 Nxb3 12.axb3 h6 13.Bh4 Re8 14.c3 Ba5 15.Qd3 b5 16.b4 Bc7 17.dxe5 Rxe5
18.Ng3 g5 19.f4 gxh4 20.fxe5 hxg3 21.Rxf6 gxh2+ 22.Kh1 bxa4 23.Raf1 Qf8 24.e6 Qg7
25.exf7+ Kf8 26.Qa6 Bb6 27.Qb7 Rd8 28.Re6 1-0

Photos

A Tropism towards Trophies, The professional trophy awarded to Chess Genius by Richard Lang,
the absolute World Champion, MChess Pro 5.0 represented by Peter Schreiner ^[7]

Games

Plain PGN-text
Some games between top contenders with analyze and graph evaluation on Lichess :
- Chess Genius - Ferret : https://lichess.org/H7ep5W5G
- Chess Genius - Quest : https://lichess.org/LjOnqGN0
- Ferret - MChess Pro 5.0 : https://lichess.org/dEhVLDqS
- MChess Pro 5.0 - Dark Thought : https://lichess.org/cFXFlCFd
- MChess Pro 5.0 - Quest : https://lichess.org/qlaybi0N
- Quest - Ferret : https://lichess.org/MsG45J6J

The Tournament

The host was represented by two programs, Cheiron and Alpha I, a single processor version of Zugzwang. Reigning World Microcomputer Champion Hiarcs wasn't represented by Mark Uniacke, but a local operator, who unfortunately lost some time between moves up and then ^[8] ^[9] ^[10] . MChess on the other hand was operated by an encouraged Peter Schreiner with great care. Richard Lang was abort on behalf of Chess Genius, Johan de Koning with The King. From the United States Bruce Moreland was present, while Junior was operated by local university staff. Fritz, who just won the Shannon Trophy a few months before did not participate in person, but his twin brother Quest by Frans Morsch.

Titles

After a lot of tough and thrilling matches, the title of the Professional Microcomputer Chess Champion was finally shared between MChess Pro 5.0 by Marty Hirsch and Chess Genius by Richard Lang, which were tied with 8 out of 11 each. The title of the "absolute" Microcomputer Chess Champion was decided by a playoff, which was won by MChess. Ferret by Bruce Moreland from the United States played a strong tournament and became third a half point behind the top scorers, and gained the World Amateur Microcomputer Chess Champion title, since the tied Nimzo 3 by Chrilly Donninger et al., from Austria, had to withdrawal the playoff for logistical reasons, after already being late due to the nerve-racking Blitz playoff. World Blitz Computer Chess Champion was won by The King by Johan de Koning from The Netherlands in 9 playoff matches against Nimzo 3.

System Tal vs XXXX

A small anecdote appeared in the last round between Chess System Tal by Chris Whittington versus Martin Zentner's XXXX (FourX). Instead of a queen-promotion with a fast mate, the graphical System Tal board indicated a minor promotion to a knight! System Tal operator Thorsten Czub played the move over the board and had to resign on behalf of Chess System Tal, while Chris, already celebrating the safe point in the cafeteria, was not amused when he arrived back on the board. A bug in a graphics drawing routine indexed the wrong piece and caused some rule discussions in the news groups ^[11] ^[12] ^[13] . Chris on place argued the PVs, as stored inside a log-file, indicated the mate score and the correct moves. Nevertheless, Tournament Director Jaap van den Herik was unpersuadable.

Winner's Curse

With hindsight MChess' title of the "absolute" Microcomputer Chess Champion wasn't the expected commercial breakthrough of the MS-DOS program. Windows 95 was already dominating the PC-market, and the trials by his European Distributor Martin Stamer to place a DOS program in the mass market was not that successful. Due to some formal advertisement faults by Stamer and some questionable and euphoric statements in his Chess Computer Catalogue 1996 ^[14] , problems arose, with monetary consequences for the programmers under contract, Marty Hirsch ^[15] and Gerd Isenberg. Mutual preliminary injunction initiated by Stamer's business rival Ossi Weiner and continuous court cases over years ^[16] was the consequence. In February 1997 Marty made a public accusation against his former distributor in a newsgroup ^[17] , while he was already about to collaborate with Weiner. The German Magazine Computerschach und Spiele broached that issue ^[18] , where Stamer made a counterstatement.

Publications

Ulf Lorenz (1995). Report on the 13th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4
Rainer Feldmann (1995). The 13th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. Results and Selected Games. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4
Larry Kaufman (1996). 13th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4
Eric Hallsworth (1995/1996). World Micro-Computer Championships 1995. Selective Search 61, pp. 8, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

Forum Posts

MChess5.0 defeats ChessGenius in Playoff 1-0 to be WMCC Champion! by rmreich, rgc, October 17, 1995
TOP 10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STOP PROGRAMMING CHESS by Martin Zentner, rgcc, October 20, 1995
TOP 10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STOP PROGRAMMING by Thomas Kerrigan, rgcc, October 24, 1995
ICCA rules, was TOP 10 REASONS... by Thomas Kerrigan, rgcc, October 29, 1995
ICCA rules by Martin Zentner, rgcc, October 31, 1995

External Links

References

^ The historical townhall of Paderborn, Photo by Ludger1961, June 14 2006, Paderborn from Wikipedia
^ 13th World Microcomputer Chess Championship ICGA tournament site
^ 13th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1995, Paderborn GER from the CSVN tournament site
^ 13th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Paderborn 1995 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Photo by Rainer Feldmann. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 255
^ Paderborn 1995 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Photo by Rainer Feldmann, ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 231
^ ICCA rules by Martin Zentner, rgcc, October 31, 1995
^ Mark Uniacke (1995). Computers & Operators. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 3+4 pp. 65
^ Mark Uniacke (1995). Autoplayers. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 3+4 pp. 66
^ TOP 10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STOP PROGRAMMING CHESS by Martin Zentner, rgcc, October 20, 1995
^ TOP 10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STOP PROGRAMMING by Thomas Kerrigan, rgcc, October 24, 1995
^ ICCA rules, was TOP 10 REASONS... by Thomas Kerrigan, rgcc, October 29, 1995
^ Der Schachcomputer-Katalog 1996, Redaktion: Peter Schreiner, Editorial by Martin Stamer, challenging Garry Kasparov to play MChess
^ Marty Hirsch by Andreas Mader, rgcc, June 6, 1997
^ Bundesgerichtshof, Urteil vom 13. 2. 2003 (German)
^ Re: KK's Gold Metal list by Marty Hirsch, rgcc, February 24, 1997
^ Dieter Steinwender (1997). MChess vor dem Ruin. Computerschach und Spiele 2/97 pp 42

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		The Fourteenth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from October 8 to 15, 1996, Campus Kenari ^[1] ^[2] , Gunadarma University, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Campus Kenari ^[3]

Experience is a Hard Teacher

Gunda-1 and Crafty

Operators

Amateurs vs. Professionals

Shredder's First Title

Final Standing

14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1996, Jakarta INA ^[4] ^[5]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	SOS	SoDOS	G
1	Shredder	DE	3b½	15w1	12w1	9b1	6b1	7w1	4w1	2b0	5b½	10w1	8b1	9	73	57¼	11
2	Ferret	US	15b½	3w1	11b½	19w1	5b1	6w½	8b1	1w1	4b½	7w½	9b1	8½	72½	56¾	11
3	Nimzo-3	AT	1w½	2b0	15b½	14w1	19b½	20w1	7b1	5w0	16b1	4w1	6b1	7½	71½	46¼	11
4	Crafty	US	5b0	8w1	14b1	11w1	18b1	12w1	1b0	6w1	2w½	3b0	7b½	7	75	44	11
5	Gunda-1	ID	4w1	10b1	6w0	17b1	2w0	9b½	19w1	3b1	1w½	8b0	13w1	7	73½	44½	11
6	Virtual Chess	FR	14b1	7w1	5b1	18b1	1w0	2b½	10w1	4b0	8w½	9b½	3w0	6½	75½	41½	11
7	DarkThought	DE	16w1	6b0	10w1	25b1	9w1	1b0	3w0	12b½	20w1	2b½	4w½	6½	71	37¼	11
8	Fritz	NL	10w0	4b0	16w1	27b1	20w1	11b1	2w0	9b1	6b½	5w1	1w0	6½	67½	33¾	11
9	Zeus 3.1	ES	13b1	23w1	19b1	1w0	7b0	5w½	18b1	8w0	11b1	6w½	2w0	6	71	33¾	11
10	Gandalf	DK	8b1	5w0	7b0	15w1	13b1	18w1	6b0	11w0	12w1	1b0	23b1	6	69	34	11
11	Comet	DE	22w1	12b½	2w½	4b0	17w1	8w0	14b1	10b1	9w0	13b0	19w1	6	67	34¼	11
12	Eugen	ES	bye	11w½	1b0	13w½	25b1	4b0	17w1	7w½	10b0	20b1	16w½	6	60½	26½	10
13	Francesca	GB	9w0	22b1	20w½	12b½	10w0	14w½	21b½	25b1	23w1	11w1	5b0	6	60	30	11
14	Centaur	RU	6w0	16b1	4w0	3b0	27w1	13b½	11w0	26b½	*bye*	22w1	21b1	6	53	21	10
15	Schach 3.0	DE	2w½	1b0	3w½	10b0	21b½	27w1	22w½	20b0	26w1	24b1	17w½	5½	60½	25	11
16	IsiChess	DE	7b0	14w0	8b0	*bye*	22w1	21w½	23b1	19b1	3w0	17b½	12b½	5½	57	22¼	10
17	InterChess	DE	19b0	bye	26w1	5w0	11b0	25w1	12b0	21w½	24b1	16w½	15b½	5½	52½	20½	10
18	Woodpusher	GB	24w1	26b1	21b1	6w0	4w0	10b0	9w0	22b½	19w0	27b1	bye	5½	49½	16¾	10
19	BreakThrough	DE	17w1	25b1	9w0	2b0	3w½	24b1	5b0	16w0	18b1	21w½	11b0	5	65	25¾	11
20	Heureka	DE	23b0	27w1	13b½	21w1	8b0	3b0	24w1	15w1	7b0	12w0	25b½	5	57	21	11
21	Pandix	HU	26w½	24b1	18w0	20b0	15w½	16b½	13w½	17b½	25w1	19b½	14w0	5	56½	24¼	11
22	Diogenes	DE	11b0	13w0	24b½	23w½	16b0	*bye*	15b½	18w½	27w1	14b0	26w½	4½	48½	13	10
23	Patzer	DE	20w1	9b0	25w0	22b½	24w0	26b1	16w0	27b1	13b0	bye	10w0	4½	46½	12¼	10
24	The Turk	IS	18b0	21w0	22w½	26b1	23b1	19w0	20b0	*bye*	17w0	15w0	27b1	4½	45½	11¾	10
25	Nightmare D	DE	27b1	19w0	23b1	7w0	12w0	17b0	bye	13w0	21b0	26b½	20w½	4	48½	10	10
26	XXXX	DE	21b½	18w0	17b0	24w0	bye	23w0	27b1	14w½	15b0	25w½	22b½	4	46	10¾	10
27	Ananse	CH	25w0	20b0	bye	8w0	14b0	15b0	26w0	23w0	22b0	18w0	24w0	1	50	0	10

Participants

14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1996, Jakarta INA ^[6]

Program	CC	Authors	Operators	Processor	MHz
Ananse	CH	Walter Bannerman		Pentium	133
BreakThrough	DE	Werner Koch		Pentium	133
Centaur	RU	Victor Vikhrev, Alexey Manjakhin		Pentium	133
Comet	DE	Ulrich Türke	Wolfgang Hettler ^[7]	Pentium	133
Crafty	US	Robert Hyatt	Tom Crain ^[8] ^[9]	Pentium Pro	200
DarkThought	DE	Ernst A. Heinz, Markus Gille, Peter Gillgasch		DEC Alpha	433
Diogenes	DE	Jörg Burwitz	Karsten Bauermeister	Pentium	133
Eugen	ES	Eugenio Castillo Jiménez		Pentium	133
Ferret	US	Bruce Moreland		Pentium Pro	200
Francesca	GB	Tom King		Pentium	133
Fritz	NL	Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist		Pentium	200
Gandalf	DK	Steen Suurballe, Dan Wulff		Pentium	133
Gunda-1	ID	Suryadi Harmanto ^[10]	Dede Liu, Andi Suhendra	Pentium Pro	200
Heureka	DE	Gerold Fischer		Pentium	133
InterChess	DE	Michael Borgstädt ^[11] ^[12] ^[13]	Wolfgang Traudes	Pentium	133
IsiChess	DE	Gerd Isenberg		Pentium	133
Nightmare D	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski		Pentium	166
Nimzo-3	AT	Chrilly Donninger	Helmut Weigel	Pentium Pro	224
Pandix	HU	Gyula Horváth	Devry Iskandar	Pentium	133
Patzer	DE	Roland Pfister		Pentium	133
Schach 3.0	DE	Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair	Monika Mayer	Pentium	133
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen		Pentium Pro	200
The Turk	IS	Yngvi Björnsson, Andreas Junghanns		Pentium	133
Virtual Chess	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill	Pascal Tang	Pentium	166
Woodpusher	GB	John Hamlen		Pentium	133
XXXX	DE	Martin Zentner		Pentium	133
Zeus 3.1	ES	Gerardo Castaño Recio		Pentium	133

CC Country Codes

Photos

Group Photo, Back row from left: Tom King, Gerold Fischer, Steen Suurballe, Jaap van den Herik
Wolfgang Traudes, Wardiman Djojonegoro, Gerd Isenberg, E. S. Margianti, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen,
Roland Pfister, Monika Mayer, Martin Zentner, Front row: Markus Gille, Werner Koch, Helmut Weigel,
Reinhold Gellner, John Hamlen, Pascal Tang, Gerardo Castaño Recio ^[14]

Photos & Games

Round 10

InterChess - IsiChess ^[15], Gerd Isenberg and Wolfgang Traudes

[Event "WMCCC 1996"]
[Site "Jakarta, Indonesia"]
[Date "1996.10.??"]
[Round "10"]
[White "InterChess"]
[Black "IsiChess 2.5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
 
1.Nf3 c5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5 4.O-O Nc6 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 e6 7.c4 Bc5 8.Nxc6 bxc6
9.Qc2 Be7 10.Rd1 O-O 11.e4 Bb7 12.Nc3 Qc8 13.Qb3 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.Bxe4 f5
16.Bg2 e5 17.Re1 Bf6 18.Be3 Ba6 19.Rad1 e4 20.Bc5 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Qxd8 22.Qa4 Bb7
23.Rd1 Qc7 24.Bd4 Bxd4 25.Rxd4 Bc8 26.Qa3 Be6 27.b3 c5 28.Rd1 Bf7 29.Qc1 Re8
30.Bh3 g6 31.Qd2 Qb6 32.Qe3 a5 33.g4 fxg4 34.Bxg4 a4 35.Re1 axb3 36.axb3 h6
37.Bd1 g5 38.Bc2 Bg6 39.h4 Qe6 40.Bd1 Qe5 41.hxg5 hxg5 42.Bf3 Kf7 43.Bg2 Kf6
44.f3 Bh5 45.fxe4 Ke7 46.Rf1 Bg4 47.Qf2 Be6 48.Rd1 Ra8 49.Bf1 Rh8 50.Rd3 Rh4
51.Re3 Bd7 52.Bg2 Qh2+ 53.Kf1 Qe5 54.Qe1 Rf4+ 55.Kg1 Bc6 56.Qd2 Rg4 57.Qd1 Rh4
58.Qe2 Qh2+ 59.Kf1 Rf4+ 60.Rf3 Bxe4 61.Rxf4 Qxf4+ 62.Kg1 Qc1+ 63.Kh2 Qf4+
64.Kg1 Qc1+ 65.Kh2 1/2-1/2

Round 11

Patzer - Gandalf ^[16], Steen Suurballe and Roland Pfister ^[17],

[Event "WMCCC 1996"]
[Site "Jakarta, Indonesia"]
[Date "1996.10.??"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Patzer"]
[Black "Gandalf X"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 d5 5.e3 c5 6.dxc5 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 h6 8.Bxf6 Qxf6
9.Qd4 e5 10.Qxd5 O-O 11.Qd6 Be6 12.Qc7 Na6 13.Qxb7 Nxc5 14.Qb4 e4 15.Rc1 Qg5
16.Nh3 Bxh3 17.gxh3 a5 18.Qb1 Rfc8 19.Rd1 a4 20.Rd4 Rab8 21.Qc1 Rb6 22.Rd5 Qg6
23.Kd2 Qf6 24.Be2 Rcb8 25.Rxc5 Rb2+ 26.Kd1 Qxf2 27.Re1 Rb1 28.Rc8+ Kh7 29.Rxb8
Rxc1+ 30.Kxc1 Qxe1+ 31.Bd1 Qxe3+ 32.Kb2 a3+ 33.Kb3 Qc1 34.Rd8 Qb2+ 35.Ka4 Qxa2
36.Bb3 Qb2 37.Re8 a2 38.Bxa2 Qxa2+ 39.Kb5 f5 40.h4 f4 41.Kb4 0-1

Prologue

The 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Jakarta ^[18] was a disputed championship ^[19] . Due to Indonesia's actions in East Timor ^[20] and elsewhere, reigning World Microcomputer Champion Marty Hirsch with MChess didn't felt comfortable to come to Jakarta to defend his title ^[21] .

The de facto ban of the Junior team ^[22] ^[23] ^[24] was another main issue, which caused potential participants evince solidarity with the Junior team - to boycott the championship or withdrawal after already registered. For the one or the other honorable reason Richard Lang, Ed Schröder, Chris Whittington, Vincent Diepeveen, Walter Ravenek ^[25] and others did not participate with their programs. Other programmers voted for not mixing political issues with sports or were more or less conform with the ICCA point of view.

The field of participants was dominated by 12 German entries, but only one Dutch, which was the program Fritz of the German ChessBase company, by Frans Morsch from The Netherlands and Mathias Feist from Germany. This matter of fact may be caused by Appeal to authority and Netherlands former relations to Indonesia and pronounced sensibility about the Suharto regime and symptoms of Antisemitism associated by the de facto ban of the Junior team due to their nationality ^[26] . The ICCA felt obligated to fulfill the contract they made with the main sponsor and host, and claimed financial suicide to turn it down ^[27] .

On the Ground

		The tournament circumstances were kind of tremendous: The subsidized accommodation in the class hotel Dai-Ichi (now Aston Atrium ^[28] ) - where also the opening ceremony with Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture, Wardiman Djojonegoro ^[29] and Rector of the Gunadarma University, Prof. E. S. Margianti ^[30] , took place - was quite luxurious. All participants received Batik shirts as gift and had personal hosts from the university, not to mention the sponsored flights for a (limited) number of participants, the excursion to Bogor, the excellent food between rounds, and closing dinner and whatever else. A minor drawback was the organized bus transfer between the hotel and playing hall. While the buildings, specially the playing hall was well air-conditioned, the bus was not and sauna like. With the consequence that most participants catches a cold from the second day. During the tournament there was a huge local press and TV-coverage. For security, police or military staff was aboard at the entrance of the tournament hall in the modern and comfortable university building where the tournament took place. The price award ceremony was accomplished by ICCA President Tony Marsland, Rector Prof. E. S. Margianti, and Minister of Public Housing, Akbar Tanjung.
Jakarta Ball Room in former Dai-Ichi ^[31]

Experience is a Hard Teacher

Gunda-1 and Crafty

A point of criticism and a negative precedence was the concession of the ICCA to let the host's program Gunda-1 of the Gunadarma University participate. It was a clone of Crafty, which also participated as well ^[32] ^[33]. On the players meeting it was agreed, that Crafty had to play Gunda-1 in the first round as proposed by the TD - to avoid possible later issues if it turned out, both programs may fight for the title. Also, no other program should play both. Gunda-1 won that game against Crafty and finally both programs finished 4th (Crafty) and 5th. Crafty had a strong tournament and won some nice games with 4. Bc4 instead of 4. Ba4 in the Ruy Lopez ^[34], which apparently threw most opponents out of book.

Operators

Other issues were related to unexperienced operators, not member of the programmers team, which caused Tournament Director Jaap van den Herik to do a lot of hard work and decisions almost each round. Another problem was the missing ability to produce valid PGN by various programs. The most time consuming case was the Heureka versus Schach 3.0 game in round 8, where around move 40 one got aware the external and internal board position in Schach 3.0 was divergent due to an operator error a few moves before (unfortunately the chess boards had no coordinates). On the other side, due to an en passant capture, Heureka was not able to take back the moves or even to start from any arbitrary position, but had to reenter the whole game - which was a bit error-prone due to interface issues and had to be done at least twice until the game could continue.

Amateurs vs. Professionals

The distinction between professionals and amateurs was justified to encourage hobbyists in participation and to reflect the commercial value of the title for the professional programmers likely associated with companies. However, after the "golden age" of dedicated chess computers the distinction became more difficult and the rule applied by the ICCA was a kind of ambivalent due to the definition of a relative income of 25 per cent from computer chess.

Engines like Nimzo and IsiChess were already commercial. Their authors affirmed their relative and absolute low income from selling their programs, which was generously accepted by the ICCA officials. Other possibly semi professional authors, who observed a below 25 per cent income, were considered full professionals by the ICCA. That was true for Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill with Virtual Chess ^[35] , and Chris Whittington with Chess System Tal and associated with Oxford Softworks, who developed and traded not only chess programs but other strategic games as well.

Quotes from Experience is a Hard Teacher by ICCA President Tony Marsland ^[36] :

In the past, applicants specified their program's category, competing for the Manufacturer's Title, the Professional Title or the Amateur Title. Now with sponsorship money and the provision of travel grants to some participants, times are changing. Naturally, the professionals had not been eligible for support (although it was after all their fees that were partly providing the grants), nor could the ICCA give financial incentives to professionals, since this might be construed as an endorsement of their product!

These conditions have led to an increasing number of participants requesting entry into the competition as amateurs. But the question of who is an amateur and who is a professional has no clear answer. For some amateurs there is unanimous agreement. Similarly, there is virtual unanimity that companies engaged in writing chess programs for sale should have their entries regarded as professional, even for a new program not yet marketed. However, there are many circumstances lying in a grey area between. For example: amateurs who offered a previous program for sale, but obtained little income from it. Or a programmer who works for a company making commercial chess software, but makes a living developing accounting packages. People are likely to have differing opinions about these cases. In the end the decision lies with the group charged with assessing the qualifications of the applicants. As with similar situations elsewhere the decision of the reviewers must be final and must be accepted with good grace. Basically the applicant makes the case and the reviewers give a judgement.

Shredder's First Title

The tournament was an 11 round accelerated swiss system ^[37] , the first three rounds were paired from two disjoint groups. The 14th WMCCC was the first victory of Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder, with half a point ahead of Bruce Moreland's Ferret. Shredder lost against the unbeaten Ferret in round 8, but Ferret made too many draws and got unlucky second place finisher. Ferret's win of the Blitz Title was a slight compensation though. Virtual Chess as sixth, won the title of the Professional World Microcomputer Chess Champion after a playoff against Fritz, since the leading five programs were all (still) amateurs.

Games

Plain PGN-text

Publications

Ratih Dewanti (1996). Report on the 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
Tony Marsland (1996). Recognition of Local Participation. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
The Board of ICCA (1996). The Junior Chess Program and the 1996 World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Jakarta. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
Tony Marsland (1996). Experience is a Hard Teacher. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4 ^[38]
Eric Hallsworth (1996/1997). 1996 World Micro Computer Championships. Selective Search 67, pp. 4, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

Forum Posts

1996 World Microcomputer Chess Championship by Tony Marsland, rgcc, May 22, 1996
WMCCC Jakarta by Chris Whittington, rgcc, August 7, 1996
World Micro Championship - Jakarta by Chris Whittington, rgcc, September 1, 1996
WORLD MICROCOMPUTER CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 1996 by ICCA President Tony Marsland, rgcc, September 12, 1996
Don and Jakarta by Ed Schröder, rgcc, September 12, 1996
Jakarta Jokes (not funny at all) by Don Fong, rgcc, September 15, 1996
ICCA Press Release: 14th WMCCC Jakarta by Bruce Moreland, rgcc, September 15, 1996
WMCCC Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 8, 1996
WMCCC / Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 10, 1996
Comments on ICCAJ v.19 n.4 by Steven Edwards, rgcc, January 12, 1997
Re: FIDE Ethics Commission ruling on ICGA/Rybka complaint by Robert Hyatt, CCC, May 04, 2015

External Links

References

^ Universitas Gunadarma - About - Google+
^ Visitasi Akreditasi S3 Ekonomi | Rumah Pena
^ UG Knowledge Based Portal - Lokasi Universitas Gunadarma
^ 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
^ 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1996, Jakarta INA, CSVN site
^ Ratih Dewanti (1996). Report on the 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
^ Wolfgang Hettler holt Silber beim BSV-Blitz, May 28, 2011 (German)
^ Amazon.com: Schlechter's chess games by Tom Crain
^ Re: Is Crafty development hardware-oriented? by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, February 17, 1999
^ Gunadarma University Expert Team, being Haryanto, M. Shofwan A, Avinanta Tarigan, Adang Suhendra, Adrian, Tubagus Maulana, and Windiaprana, led by Suryadi Harmanto
^ along with Grabusic, see Ratih Dewanti (1996). Report on the 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
^ Thorsten about Jakarta 2 by Dirk Frickenschmidt, rgcc, October 10, 1996
^ Re: WMCCC by Bruce Moreland, CCC, September 25, 1997
^ Image clipped from opening ceremony group photo by B. Sumarwoto SE, in Tony Marsland (1996). Experience is a Hard Teacher. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 267
^ Jakarta 1996 - Chess - Round 10 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Jakarta 1996 - Chess - Round 11 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Steen Suurballe Homepage
^ 1996 World Microcomputer Chess Championship by Tony Marsland, rgcc, May 22, 1996
^ World Micro Championship - Jakarta by Chris Whittington, rgcc, September 1, 1996
^ East Timor: Acceptable Slaughters by Joe Nunes
^ WMCCC Jakarta by Chris Whittington, rgcc, August 7, 1996, see post 22 by Peter Schreiner
^ WORLD MICROCOMPUTER CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 1996 by Tony Marsland, rgcc, September 12, 1996
^ Jakarta Jokes (not funny at all) by Don Fong, rgcc, September 15, 1996
^ WMCCC Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 8, 1996, see post 40 by Amir Ban, Junior will not be playing in the WMCCC
^ Don and Jakarta by Ed Schröder, rgcc, September 12, 1996, see post 5 by Walter Ravenek, September 17, 1996
^ The Board of the ICCA (1996). The Junior Chess Program and the 1996 World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Jakarta. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
^ ICCA Press Release: 14th WMCCC Jakarta by Bruce Moreland, rgcc, September 15, 1996
^ Aston Atrium Jakarta Hotel
^ Prof. Dr. Ing. Wardiman Djojonegoro
^ Academy news — Visit of Gunadarma University delegation
^ Aston Atrium Jakarta Hotel
^ WMCCC Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 8, 1996
^ Re: FIDE Ethics Commission ruling on ICGA/Rybka complaint by Robert Hyatt, CCC, May 04, 2015
^ Re: The Crafty variation of the Ruy Lopez by Robert Hyatt, CCC, August 12, 2000
^ WMCCC standings after round 10 by Hornets, rgcc, October 12, 1996, see post 16 by Marc-François Baudot, October 15, 1996
^ Tony Marsland (1996). Experience is a Hard Teacher. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
^ WMCCC / Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 10, 1996
^ Comments on ICCAJ v.19 n.4 by Steven Edwards, rgcc, January 12, 1997

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Ananse	Jan 8, 2016
BreakThrough	Nov 26, 2016
Comet	Jan 8, 2016
Crafty	Jan 28, 2018
Diogenes	Jan 8, 2016
Eugen	Jan 7, 2016
Ferret	Jan 7, 2016
Francesca	Jan 7, 2016
Gandalf	Jan 21, 2018
Gerardo Castaño Recio	May 14, 2016
Gerold Fischer	Jan 24, 2016
Goliath	Apr 5, 2017
Gunda-1	Jan 8, 2016
Helmut Weigel	Dec 2, 2017
Heureka	Jan 8, 2016
Historical Examples	Jan 16, 2017
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
InterChess	Jan 8, 2016
IsiChess	Jan 7, 2016
Karsten Bauermeister	Sep 6, 2015
Michael Borgstädt	Jan 24, 2016
Moritz Berger	Feb 25, 2018
Nightmare GER	Dec 12, 2016
Nimzo	Dec 30, 2017
Pascal Tang	Jul 23, 2017
Patzer	Apr 5, 2017
Ratih Dewanti	Apr 29, 2013
Rémi Coulom	Feb 5, 2018
Schach	Jan 7, 2016
Shredder	Jan 21, 2018
Steen Suurballe	Mar 5, 2017
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen	Jun 19, 2017
Suryadi Harmanto	Mar 21, 2015
The Turk	Apr 1, 2017
Tony Marsland	Nov 27, 2017
Virtual Chess	Mar 25, 2017
WCSC 2017	Jul 4, 2017
Werner Koch	Jan 8, 2016
Who's Who	Sep 6, 2017
WMCCC 1995	Jan 3, 2018
WMCCC 1996	Sep 15, 2016
WMCCC 1997	Apr 4, 2017
Wolfgang Traudes	Jan 8, 2016
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016
XXXX	Jan 7, 2016
Yngvi Björnsson	Jun 26, 2017
Zeus	Jan 3, 2018

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WMCCC 1997

GerdIsenberg — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:11:57 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 15th WMCCC Paris 1997
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		The 15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from October 25 to November 02, 1997, at Paris Bourse in Palais Brogniart, Paris, France. Junior by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky won its first title, 1½ ahead of Virtual Chess. The closing dinner took place in Le 58 Tour Eiffel, Eiffel Tower.
Le Palais Brongniart à Paris

Final Standing

15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1997, Paris FRA ^[1]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Junior	IL	12b½	11w1	30b1	5w1	2b0	10w1	4w1	14b1	13w1	3b1	16b1	9½	69	58
2	Virtual Chess	FR	9w1	4b½	24w1	15b1	1w1	18b1	5w½	12b1	3b0	10w1	6b0	8	73	51½
3	Shredder	DE	18w½	13b0	20w1	14w0	31b1	24b1	23w1	15b1	2w1	1w0	4b1	7½	66½	42¼
4	MChess	US	6b1	2w½	7b1	21w1	10b½	11w½	1b0	5w1	12w½	14b1	3w0	7	75	45
5	Ferret	US	13w½	20b1	22w1	1b0	15w½	7w1	2b½	4b0	11w1	8b½	14w1	7	73	43
6	DarkThought	DE	4w0	9b1	19w½	27b½	29w1	23b½	7w1	10b½	14w0	13b1	2w1	7	66	42½
7	Toledo 2000	ES	8w1	17b½	4w0	28b1	13w1	5b0	6b0	27w½	22w1	15b1	18w1	7	65½	39¼
8	Hydra	AT	7b0	12w½	11b0	32w1	30b1	19w1	14b0	23w1	27b1	5w½	10b1	7	59½	34
9	Comet	DE	2b0	6w0	32b1	23w0	20b1	26w0	33b1	25w1	18w½	28b1	19w1	6½	57	29¼
10	Chess System Tal	GB	19w1	14b1	15w½	12b½	4w½	1b0	22w1	6w½	21b1	2b0	8w0	6	72	34½
11	Arthur	NL	17w½	1b0	8w1	19b1	24w1	4b½	15w½	13b0	5b0	21w1	12w½	6	70	35
12	Eugen	ES	1w½	8b½	23w1	10w½	21b½	27b1	18w1	2w0	4b½	16w0	11b½	6	69½	35¼
13	Gandalf	DK	5b½	3w1	21b0	30w1	7b0	16w½	25b1	11w1	1b0	6w0	26b1	6	68½	33½
14	Chess Guru	FR	34b1	10w0	17w1	3b1	18w0	22b1	8w1	1w0	6b1	4w0	5b0	6	67½	32½
15	Diep	NL	33b1	26w1	10b½	2w0	5b½	21w1	11b½	3w0	16b½	7w0	22b1	6	65½	30½
16	Fritz	NL	20w½	18b½	27w½	24b0	28w½	13b½	17w1	19b1	15w½	12b1	1w0	6	64	33½
17	Kallisto	NL	11b½	7w½	14b0	31w½	23b0	30w1	16b0	33w1	28w½	29b1	21b1	6	53½	26¼
18	Crafty	US	3b½	16w½	25b1	26w1	14b1	2w0	12b0	21w0	9b½	27w1	7b0	5½	66½	30½
19	The Crazy Bishop	FR	10b0	34w1	6b½	11w0	33b1	8b0	24w1	16w0	23b1	20w1	9b0	5½	57	22
20	IsiChess	DE	16b½	5w0	3b0	29b0	9w0	34b1	32w1	31w1	24b1	19b0	28w1	5½	52½	18½
21	Goliath	DE	29w1	22b½	13w1	4b0	12w½	15b0	28w1	18b1	10w0	11b0	17w0	5	62½	26
22	Woodpusher	GB	32b1	21w½	5b0	25w½	26b1	14w0	10b0	29w1	7b0	33b1	15w0	5	57½	20½
23	XXXX II	DE	26b0	33w1	12b0	9b1	17w1	6w½	3b0	8b0	19w0	31w½	34b1	5	56½	20½
24	Stobor	US	25b½	31w1	2b0	16w1	11b0	3w0	19b0	34b1	20w0	32w½	27b1	5	54	17½
25	Patzer	DE	24w½	28b1	18w0	22b½	27w0	29b1	13w0	9b0	26b0	30w1	32b1	5	53	20½
26	SOS	DE	23w1	15b0	29w1	18b0	22w0	9b1	27w0	28b0	25w1	34b1	13w0	5	52½	21
27	Chess Tiger	FR	31b1	30w0	16b½	6w½	25b1	12w0	26b1	7b½	8w0	18b0	24w0	4½	60	23
28	AnMon	FR	30b½	25w0	33b1	7w0	16b½	31w1	21b0	26w1	17b½	9w0	20b0	4½	55½	18¾
29	Techno Chess	FR	21b0	32w1	26b0	20w1	6b0	25w0	31b1	22b0	34w1	17w0	30b½	4½	48	13¼
30	Capture	FR	28w½	27b1	1w0	13b0	8w0	17b0	34w1	32b0	33w½	25b0	29w½	3½	53	10½
31	Francesca	GB	27w0	24b0	34w1	17b½	3w0	28b0	29w0	20b0	32w½	23b½	33w½	3	48½	8½
32	Dragon	FR	22w0	29b0	9w0	8b0	34w1	33w0	20b0	30w1	31b½	24b½	25w0	3	48	7½
33	Nightmare	DE	15w0	23b0	28w0	34b1	19w0	32b1	9w0	17b0	30b½	22w0	31b½	3	48	6¼
34	Ananse	CH	14w0	19b0	31b0	33w0	32b0	20w0	30b0	24w0	29b0	26w0	23w0	0	49	0

Participants

15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1997, Paris FRA ^[2]

Program	CC	Authors	Operators	Processor	Mhz
Ananse	CH	Walter Bannerman		AMD K6	200
AnMon	FR	Christian Barreteau		AMD K6	200
Arthur	NL	Walter Ravenek		AMD K6	200
Capture	FR	Sylvain Renard		AMD K6	200
Chess Guru	FR	Joël Rivat		DEC Alpha	500
Chess System Tal	GB	Chris Whittington	Thorsten Czub	Intel Pentium II	300
Chess Tiger	FR	Christophe Théron		Intel Pentium II	300
Comet	DE	Ulrich Türke	Karsten Bauermeister	AMD K6	200
Crafty	US	Robert Hyatt	Jason Deines ^[3]	DEC Alpha	500
DarkThought	DE	Ernst A. Heinz, Markus Gille		DEC Alpha	767
Diep	NL	Vincent Diepeveen		Intel Pentium II	300
Dragon	FR	Bruno Lucas		AMD K6	200
Eugen	ES	Eugenio Castillo Jiménez		AMD K6	200
Ferret	US	Bruce Moreland		DEC Alpha	767
Francesca	GB	Tom King		AMD K6	200
Fritz	NL	Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist		Intel Pentium II	300
Gandalf	DK	Steen Suurballe, Dan Wulff		AMD K6	200
Goliath	DE	Michael Borgstädt	Wolfgang Traudes	AMD K6	200
Hydra	AT	Chrilly Donninger, Alex Kure	Bernhard Biberle	AMD K6	233
IsiChess	DE	Gerd Isenberg		AMD K6	200
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky		Intel Pentium II	300
Kallisto	NL	Bart Weststrate		AMD K6	233
MChess	US	Marty Hirsch	Peter Schreiner	AMD K6	233
Nightmare	DE	Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski		AMD K6	266
Patzer	DE	Roland Pfister		AMD K6	200
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen		DEC Alpha	533
SOS	DE	Rudolf Huber		AMD K6	200
Stobor	US	Tom Kerrigan		AMD K6	200
Techno Chess	FR	Christophe Jolly		AMD K6	200
The Crazy Bishop	FR	Rémi Coulom		AMD K6	200
Toledo 2000	ES	Gerardo Castaño Recio		Intel Pentium II	300
Virtual Chess	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill		Intel Pentium II	300
Woodpusher	GB	John Hamlen		AMD K6	200
XXXX II	DE	Martin Zentner		Intel Pentium II	300

CC Country Codes

Photos

^[4]



Tournament hall

Amir Ban, Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist


Jan Louwman, Jaap van den Herik, Coby Louwman

Publications

John Hamlen, Mathias Feist (1997). Report on the 15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4
Eric Hallsworth (1997/1998). World Micro Computer Champs - Report & Games. Selective Search 73, pp. 6, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

Forum Posts

Missing in action (aka WMCCC) by Amir Ban, rgcc, September 16, 1997
WMCCC by Chris Whittington, CCC, September 22, 1997
WMCCC Hardware by Chris Whittington, CCC, October 03, 1997
WMCCC - players meeting info ... by Chris Whittington, CCC, October 27, 1997
exclusive reporting - 4th round as it happens by Chris Whittington, CCC, October 28, 1997
PARIS WMCC organisation by Jean-Christophe Weill, CCC, October 31, 1997
Re: infos about JUNIOR (the new W.M.C.C.Champion)? by Shay Bushinsky, CCC, November 02, 1997
Paris: It was a fantastic week for me ! by Ingo Althöfer, CCC, November 02, 1997
Paris WMCCC - were programs better than in Jakarta (1996)? by Jouni Uski, CCC, November 11, 1997

External Links

15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship,Oct. 1997, Paris FRA from the CSVN tournament site
15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Paris 1997 by Volker Richey
Diep in Parijs by Vincent Diepeveen, Schaakclub Utrecht (Dutch)
15. Mikro-WM 1997 in Paris, Teil 1 by Peter Schreiner, Schachclub Leinzell, December 1997 (German)
Paris 1997 by Thorsten Czub
Paris Bourse from Wikipedia
Palais Brogniart from Wikipedia.fr (French)
Eiffel Tower from Wikipedia ^[5]

References

^ 15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship,Oct. 1997, Paris FRA from the CSVN tournament site
^ 15th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Paris 1997 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Re: Crafty on 767Mhz Alpha at Paris WMCCC? by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, September 28, 1997
^ Paris 1997 by Thorsten Czub
^ Lightning strikes the Eiffel Tower on June 03, 1902, at 9:20 pm

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Page	Date Edited
Alex Kure	Aug 27, 2016
AMD	Mar 9, 2018
AnMon	Nov 17, 2017
Arthur	Jan 7, 2016
Bernhard Biberle	May 30, 2014
Capture (program)	Jan 8, 2016
Chess Guru	Mar 4, 2017
Chess System Tal	Jan 13, 2017
Chess Tiger	Jan 7, 2016
Christophe Jolly	Jan 8, 2016
Comet	Jan 8, 2016
Crafty	Jan 28, 2018
Dan Wulff	Jun 25, 2016
Diep	Jan 28, 2018
Dragon FR	Sep 9, 2016
Eugen	Jan 7, 2016
FCCC 1997	Oct 21, 2012
Ferret	Jan 7, 2016
Francesca	Jan 7, 2016
Gandalf	Jan 21, 2018
Gerold Fischer	Jan 24, 2016
Goliath	Apr 5, 2017
Heureka	Jan 8, 2016
Hydra	Aug 17, 2016
Hydra 97	Jan 1, 2017
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
IsiChess	Jan 7, 2016
John Hamlen	Jul 12, 2017
Junior	Feb 27, 2018
Kallisto	Oct 28, 2017
Karsten Bauermeister	Sep 6, 2015
Mathias Feist	Aug 27, 2016
Nightmare GER	Dec 12, 2016
Pascal Tang	Jul 23, 2017
Patzer	Apr 5, 2017
Peter Schreiner	May 22, 2016
SOS	Apr 5, 2017
Stobor	Jan 8, 2016
Techno Chess	Jan 8, 2016
The Crazy Bishop	Jan 7, 2016
Toledo 2000	Feb 24, 2018
Virtual Chess	Mar 25, 2017
Walter Bannerman	Jan 8, 2016
Who's Who	Sep 6, 2017
WMCCC 1996	Sep 15, 2016
WMCCC 1997	Apr 4, 2017
WMCCC 1999	Jan 7, 2016
Wolfgang Traudes	Jan 8, 2016
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016
XXXX	Jan 7, 2016

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WMCCC 1999

GerdIsenberg — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:41:03 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 16th WMCCC Paderborn 1999
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		The 16th World Microcomputer Chess Championship was combined within the 9th WCCC for all participants playing on a microcomputer with one core. It took place from June 14 to 19, 1999 at Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany, in conjunction with the Advances in Computer Games 9 conference. Shredder was the winner of both tournaments simultaneously..
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum ^[1]

External Links

9th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database

References

^ Panoramio - Photo of Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

What links here?

Page	Date Edited
Don Dailey	Dec 7, 2016
WMCCC 1997	Apr 4, 2017
WMCCC 1999	Jan 7, 2016
WMCCC 2000	Feb 27, 2018
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016

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WMCCC 2000

GerdIsenberg — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:04:42 GMT

Home * Tournaments * World Microcomputer Chess Championship * 17th WMCCC London 2000
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		The Seventeenth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from August 21 to 25, 2000, at Alexandra Palace, North London, United Kingdom in conjunction with the Mind Sports Olympiad and the 5th Computer Olympiad. In a tough fight, Shredder by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen could defend his title with 7/9 and with five wins and four draws, followed by runner-up Fritz with 6½/9, also without loosing a game but five draws.
Alexandra Palace from the west ^[1]

Final Standing

17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Aug. 2000, London GBR ^[2] ^[3]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Shredder	DE	10w1	3b1	2w½	4b½	5w½	7b½	6w1	8b1	9w1	7	48	36½
2	Fritz	NL	8b1	7w1	1b½	5w½	4b½	3w½	9b1	6w½	12b1	6½	48	33
3	Chess Tiger	FR	14b1	1w0	11b½	8w1	7b½	2b½	10w1	13b1	5w½	6	37½	20¼
4	Rebel	NL	11b1	12w1	5b0	1w½	2w½	6b0	13b1	7w1	14w1	6	37½	19¾
5	Junior	IL	6w½	10b1	4w1	2b½	1b½	9w½	7w0	14b1	3b½	5½	44½	24¾
6	SOS	DE	5b½	8w½	7b0	11w1	14b1	4w1	1b0	2b½	13w1	5½	39½	19
7	Nimzo	AT	9w1	2b0	6w1	12b1	3w½	1w½	5b1	4b0	8w0	5	49½	25½
8	Insomniac	US	2w0	6b½	13w1	3b0	10w½	12b1	11w1	1w0	7b1	5	42	17¾
9	ZChess	FR	7b0	14w1	12b0	10b1	13w1	5b½	2w0	11w1	1b0	4½	36	11¼
10	Diep	NL	1b0	5w0	14b1	9w0	8b½	13w1	3b0	12w1	11b½	4	36	8¾
11	Francesca	GB	4w0	13b1	3w½	6b0	12w½	14w1	8b0	9b0	10w½	3½	35½	7¾
12	Crafty	US	13w1	4b0	9w1	7w0	11b½	8w0	14b1	10b0	2w0	3½	35½	7¼
13	XiniX	NL	12b0	11w0	8b0	14w1	9b0	10b0	4w0	3w0	6b0	1	38	0
14	Pacque Expert	FR	3w0	9b0	10w0	13b0	6w0	11b0	12w0	5w0	4b0	0	39½	0

Participants

17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Aug. 2000, London GBR ^[4] ^[5]

Program	CC	Authors, Operators	Processor	MHz
Chess Tiger	FR	Christophe Théron, Jeroen Noomen	Intel PIII	800
Crafty 17.13	US	Robert Hyatt, Graham Laight	DEC Alpha 21264	500
Diep	NL	Vincent Diepeveen	Intel PIII	800
Francesca	GB	Tom King	Intel Celeron	600
Fritz	NL	Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist	Intel PIII	1000
Insomniac	US	James Robertson	Intel PIII	933
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky	Intel PIII	700
Nimzo 8	AT	Chrilly Donninger, Alex Kure	Intel PIII	1000
Pacque Expert	FR	Bruno Bras	Intel Celeron	333
Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder, Jeroen Noomen	Intel PIII	800
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen	AMD Athlon	1000
SOS	DE	Rudolf Huber	Intel PIII	667
XiniX	NL	Tony Werten	Intel Celeron	500
ZChess	FR	Franck Zibi	AMD Athlon	800

CC Country Codes

Titles

World Microcomputer Chess Champion: Shredder
Amateur World Microcomputer Chess Champion: SOS
World Microcomputer Speed-Chess Champion: Fritz

Tournament Director

Jaap van den Herik

Photos

Rudolf Huber, Amir Ban, Mathias Feist, Ossi Weiner, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Ed Schröder, Alex Kure ^[6] ^[7]

[Event "17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship"]
[Site "London, United Kingdom"]
[Date "2000.08.22"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rebel"]
[Black "Shredder"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
 
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nd5 Nxe4 6. Qe2 f5 7. Ng5 d3 8. cxd3 Nd4 
9. Qh5+ g6 10. Qh4 c6 11. dxe4 cxd5 12. exd5 Bg7 13. Kd1 h6 14. Nf3 Nxf3 15. Qxd8+ Kxd8 
16. gxf3 d6 17. Rg1 g5 18. h4 g4 19. Be2 h5 20. Bg5+ Kc7 21. Rc1+ Kb8 22. fxg4 fxg4 
23. f3 gxf3 24. Bxf3 Be5 25. Rc4 Bf5 26. Bf4 Bd3 27. Bxe5 dxe5 28. Rc3 e4 29. Be2 Bxe2+ 
30. Kxe2 a5 31. Rg5 Ra6 32. Rc4 Rf6 33. Rxe4 Kc7 34. Re7+ Kd6 35. Rxb7 Rf4 36. Rb6+ Kc5 
37. Rc6+ Kb5 38. Rc3 Rxh4 39. d6+ Kb6 40. d7 Rd8 41. Rd5 Re4+ 42. Kf3 Re7 43. Rcd3 h4 
44. Kg4 Re2 45. Rd6+ Kc7 46. Rd2 Rxd2 47. Rxd2 Rxd7 48. Rxd7+ Kxd7 49. Kxh4 Kc6 50. Kg4
Kc5 51. Kf3 Kc4 52. Ke3 a4 53. Kd2 Kd4 54. Kc2 Kc4 55. Kd1 Kb4 56. Kd2 Kc4 1/2-1/2

Michael Reiss and Tristan Cazenave, 5th Computer Olympiad Go, WMCCC in the background ^[8]

Publications

Tom King (2000). Shredder wins the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
Eric Hallsworth (2000). The 17th World Micro Chess Computer Championships - London 2000. Selective Search 90, pp. 8, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

Forum Posts

WMCCC 2000 by James Robertson, CCC, April 18, 2000
WMCCC in London by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, July 04, 2000
CB announces Nimzo 8 to participate in London by Mike S., CCC, August 07, 2000
WMCCC 2000 - Cross Table (After R2) by Chris Carson, CCC, August 21, 2000
WMCCC pairings round 5 not in accordance with swiss system rules! by Sylvain Renard, CCC, August 22, 2000
WMCCC 2000 - Summary (After R3) by Chris Carson, CCC, August 22, 2000
Pairings round 6 : swiss "perfect" makes very strange pairings by Sylvain Renard, CCC, August 23, 2000
Shredder wins the WMCCC 2000 by Enrique Irazoqui, CCC, August 25, 2000
Amateur Programs in WMCCC 2000 by Mark Loftus, CCC, August 25, 2000
All Games of the WMCCC 2000 , names corrected (part1) by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, August 28, 2000
DIEP in WMCCC2000 London - long story by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, August 29, 2000

External Links

17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, London 2000 by Volker Richey
5th Computer Olympiad from Wikipedia
WMCC London diary, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 by Jeroen Noomen
WMCCC 2000, London Photo Gallery by Ed Schröder
Mikro-WM 2000 in London, Teil 1 by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Schachclub Leinzell, October 2000 (German)

References

^ The front of the Alexandra Palace in London, Image by Oliver Spalt, August 2008, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, Alexandra Palace from Wikipedia
^ 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Aug. 2000, London GBR, CSVN tournament site
^ 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - London 2000 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ WMCCC 2000 - Cross Table (After R2) by Chris Carson, CCC, August 21, 2000
^ WMCCC 2000 London (Spanish)
^ WMCCC 2000, London Photo Gallery by Ed Schröder
^ London 2000 - Chess - Round 4 - Game 2 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Computer Go - Past Events - Computer Olympiad 2000

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		The Eighteenth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from August 19 to 23, 2001, at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands in conjunction with the 6th Computer Olympiad. The WMCCC as well the Olympiad were held in Ad Fundum which is located on the base floor of the former Jesuit Convent (Tongersestraat 53), in 2001 home of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University ^[1] . Deep Junior, running on a Intel Dual PIII, won the overall tournament with the title World Microcomputer Chess Champion, third placed Shredder was the best single processor engine awarded with the title Single-CPU World Microcomputer Chess Champion, while Gromit Chess became Amateur World Microcomputer Chess Champion. The 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship was the last Microcomputer event. On the triennial meeting of the ICGA during the WCCC 2002, the members agreed to discontinue the WMCCC on behalf of a yearly World Computer Chess Championship cycle, since the micro distinction seemed no longer contemporary, considering multiprocessors.
Ad Fundum ^[2]

Gromit Chess - ParSOS

Final Standing

18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Aug. 2001, Maastricht NED ^[3]

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Deep Junior 7	IL	13b1	15w1	7b1	5w1	2b½	3w1	4b1	6w1	10b½	8	44½	39
2	Quest	NL	16w1	5b0	3b1	10w1	1w½	6b½	9w1	7b½	8w½	6	47	30½
3	Shredder	DE	12w½	16b1	2w0	17b1	9w1	1b0	6w½	5w1	15b1	6	41½	23
4	Gromit Chess 3.9.5	DE	5w0	17b½	11w1	12b½	13w1	8b½	1w0	18b1	7w1	5½	39	20¼
5	Chess Tiger 14.6	FR	4b1	2w1	9w1	1b0	6b1	7w½	8w½	3b0	11w0	5	50½	26½
6	Rebel	NL	11w1	7b0	12w1	8b1	5w0	2w½	3b½	1b0	14w1	5	47½	23½
7	Crafty 18.10	US	8b1	6w1	1w0	9b½	12w½	5b½	14w1	2w½	4b0	5	47	23½
8	Goliath T2	DE	7w0	11b1	15b1	6w0	10b1	4w½	5b½	9w½	2b½	5	44½	23¾
9	Ferret	US	14b1	10w1	5b0	7w½	3b0	12w1	2b0	8b½	18w1	5	40	18
10	Gandalf 5.0	DK	18w1	9b0	13w1	2b0	8w0	16b½	15w1	12b1	1w½	5	38½	17
11	ParSOS	DE	6b0	8w0	4b0	14w½	18b½	13b1	16w1	17w1	5b1	5	34	16½
12	Diep	NL	3b½	14w1	6b0	4w½	7b½	9b0	18w1	10w0	17b½	4	38	13½
13	Tao	NL	1w0	18b1	10b0	15w1	4b0	11w0	17b1	14b½	16w½	4	36	9¼
14	IsiChess	DE	9w0	12b0	16w½	11b½	15b1	17w1	7b0	13w½	6b0	3½	36½	11½
15	Ruy Lopez	ES	17w1	1b0	8w0	13b0	14w0	18w1	10b0	16b1	3w0	3	37½	6
16	Pharaon	FR	2b0	3w0	14b½	18w1	17b½	10w½	11b0	15w0	13b½	3	35½	8
17	SpiderGirl	NL	15b0	4w½	18b1	3w0	16w½	14b0	13w0	11b0	12w½	2½	34½	6¾
18	XiniX	NL	10b0	13w0	17w0	16b0	11w½	15b0	12b0	4w0	9b0	½	37	2½

Participants

18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Aug. 2001, Maastricht NED ^[4]

Program	CC	Authors, Operators	Hardware
Chess Tiger 14.6	FR	Christophe Théron, Jeroen Noomen, Jan Louwman	AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
Crafty 18.10 ^[5]	US	Robert Hyatt, Michel Langeveld	Dual AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
Deep Junior 7	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky	Dual Intel PIII 1.0 GHz
Diep	NL	Vincent Diepeveen, Carlos Pesce	Dual AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz
Ferret	US	Bruce Moreland	Dual AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz
Gandalf 5.0	DK	Steen Suurballe, Dan Wulff	AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz
Goliath T2	DE	Michael Borgstädt, Erdogan Günes	AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz
Gromit Chess 3.9.5	DE	Frank Schneider, Kai Skibbe	AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
IsiChess	DE	Gerd Isenberg	AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz
ParSOS	DE	Rudolf Huber	Dual Intel PIII 1.0 Ghz
Pharaon	FR	Franck Zibi	AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz
Quest	NL	Frans Morsch	Dual Intel PIII 1.0 GHz
Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder, Jeroen Noomen	AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
Ruy Lopez	ES	Álvaro Begué, José Manuel Morán	AMD Athlon 1.33 Ghz
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi	AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
SpiderGirl	NL	Martin Giepmans	AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz
Tao	NL	Bas Hamstra	Intel PIII 700 MHz
XiniX	NL	Tony Werten	Intel PIII 866 MHz

CC Country Codes

Selected Games

Round 2

Ferret - Gandalf ^[6] ^[7]

[Event "WMCCC 2001"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2001.08.19"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ferret"]
[Black "Gandalf"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Bb7
10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a4 h6 13.Bc2 exd4 14.cxd4 Nb4 15.Bb1 g6 16.Ra3 Bg7 17.Nh2
c5 18.d5 Nd7 19.Ndf3 h5 20.Nf1 bxa4 21.Qxa4 a5 22.Ne3 Ba6 23.Qd1 c4 24.Nd2 Ne5
25.Rf1 Qb6 26.Kh2 c3 27.bxc3 Bxf1 28.Qxf1 Na6 29.Rb3 Qc7 30.c4 Nb4 31.Qd1 Nd7
32.Nef1 Nc5 33.Rf3 a4 34.Kg1 Reb8 35.Rg3 Qe7 36.Ba3 Be5 37.Re3 Bf4 38.Rf3 Qe5
39.h4 Bh6 40.Ne3 Nb3 41.Ndf1 Bxe3 42.Nxe3 Qa1 43.e5 Qxa3 44.Rxf7 Kxf7 45.Qf3+ Kg8
46.Qf6 Qa1 47.Qe6+ Kf8 48.Qxd6+ Ke8 49.Qxg6+ Kd8 50.d6 Kc8 51.Qf7 Qxb1+ 52.Kh2 Na6
53.e6 Nbc5 54.e7 Qe4 55.d7+ Nxd7 56.e8=Q+ Qxe8 57.Qxe8+ Kc7 58.Nd5+ Kc6 59.Qe6+ Kc5
60.Qxd7 a3 61.Qf5 Kxc4 62.Ne3+ Kc3 63.Qc2+ Kb4 64.Qc4+ Ka5 65.Qc3+ Kb5 66.Qb3+ Kc6
67.Qa4+ Kb6 68.Qxa3 Rh8 69.Qd6+ Kb5 70.Qe5+ Nc5 71.Qb2+ Kc6 72.Qf6+ Kb5 73.Nd5 Rhc8
74.Qb2+ Kc6 75.Ne7+ 1-0

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : https://en.lichess.org/SCE6OChf

Round 3

Crafty - Deep Junior

Crafty operated by Michel Langeveld vs Deep Junior by Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky ^[8] ^[9]

[Event "WMCCC 2001"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2001.08.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Crafty"]
[Black "Deep Junior"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.c3 Qb6 6.Qb3 c4 7.Qc2 Bf5 8.Qc1 e6 9.Nbd2 Qa5 
10.Be2 b5 11.O-O b4 12.cxb4 Bxb4 13.a3 Bxd2 14.Nxd2 O-O 15.b3 c3 16.b4 cxd2 17.Qxc6 Qd8 
18.f3 Rc8 19.Qa6 Bc2 20.Bd6 Re8 21.Bc5 e5 22.Bd1 Bxd1 23.Raxd1 e4 24.Qe2 exf3 25.Qxf3 Rc6 
26.Rxd2 Rce6 27.Re2 Qd7 28.Qf5 Qb5 29.Ree1 Ra6 30.Ra1 Rxe3 31.Qc8+ Re8 32.Qc7 Rae6 33.Qxa7 
Re2 34.Qc7 h5 35.Qg3 R8e3 36.Rf3 h4 37.Qxh4 Rxf3 38.gxf3 Qd3 39.Rf1 Qxa3 40.Kh1 Qd3 41.Qh3 
g6 42.Qh6 Nd7 43.Qf4 Kg7 44.Kg1 Ra2 45.Rf2 Ra1+ 46.Kg2 Qb1 47.Kh3 Qh1 48.Qe3 Ra8 49.Rg2 Qf1 
50.Kg3 Nf6 51.Rg1 Nh5+ 52.Kh4 Qa6 53.Qe5+ Kh7 54.Rg2 Qf1 55.Qe2 Qc1 56.Qd2 Qb1 57.Rg5 Ng7 
58.Qf4 Ra2 59.Bd6 Qe1+ 60.Kh3 Qe6+ 61.Rg4 Nf5 62.Bc5 Nh6 63.Bf8 Nxg4 64.Qxg4 Qa6 65.b5 Qxb5 
66.Bd6 Qf1+ 67.Kh4 f5 68.Qf4 Rg2 69.Qe3 g5+ 70.Kh5 Rxh2+ 71.Bxh2 Qh3+ 72.Kxg5 Qh6+ 73.Kxf5 
Qxe3 74.Be5 Qxf3+ 0-1

Ruy Lopez - Goliath

Ruy Lopez vs. Goliath, Gromit Chess vs. ParSOS, and Shredder vs Quest
some people to recognize, Álvaro Begué, Rudolf Huber, Kai Skibbe, Peter Schreiner, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen,
Shay Bushinsky, Mathias Feist, TD Jaap van den Herik ^[10] ^[11]

[Event "WMCCC 2001"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2001.08.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ruy Lopez"]
[Black "Goliath"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3 Bf5 4.Bd3 Bxd3 5.Qxd3 Nbd7 6.c4 dxc4 7.Qxc4 c6 8.Nc3 e6 9.e4 Be7
10.Bf4 O-O 11.O-O Rc8 12.b4 a5 13.a3 Nh5 14.Bd2 Nhf6 15.Rfb1 axb4 16.axb4 Qc7 17.b5 c5
18.Re1 Nb6 19.Qd3 cxd4 20.Ne2 e5 21.Rec1 Bc5 22.Nh4 Ra8 23.Bg5 Rxa1 24.Rxa1 Nbd7 25.Ng3
Rc8 26.Rc1 Qd6 27.Nhf5 Qe6 28.f4 h6 29.Bxf6 Nxf6 30.Ne2 h5 31.Nfg3 g6 32.f5 Qe7 33.fxg6
fxg6 34.Nf1 Qd7 35.Nd2 Bb6 36.Rxc8+ Qxc8 37.Nc4 Qc5 38.Nxb6 Qxb6 39.h3 Kg7 40.Kh2 Qc5
41.Kh1 Ne8 42.Qb3 Nd6 43.Qe6 Nxe4 44.Qd7+ Kh6 45.Kh2 b6 46.Qd8 Qd6 47.Qh8+ Kg5 48.Ng1
Nd2 49.h4+ Kxh4 50.g3+ Kg5 51.Nh3+ Kg4 52.Qc8+ Kf3 53.Qc1 Ke2 54.Ng1+ Kd3 55.Qd1 Qf8
56.Kg2 e4 57.Qe1 e3 58.Kh1 Qa8+ 59.Kh2 Nf3+ 60.Nxf3 0-1

Gromit Chess - ParSOS

[Event "WMCCC 2001"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2001.08.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gromit Chess"]
[Black "ParSOS"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.Nc3 Be7 7.e3 Nb6 8.Bd3 O-O 9.O-O h6
10.Bf4 c6 11.Ne5 Bd6 12.Qf3 Qe7 13.e4 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.Qxe4 f5 16.Qe2 Rf6 17.Rfe1 Nd5
18.Bd2 Be6 19.Rac1 Rd8 20.Bc4 Qc7 21.a4 Qb6 22.Bc3 Qc7 23.Kh1 Kh8 24.Qh5 Nf4 25.Qf3 Bxc4
26.Nxc4 Nd5 27.Nxd6 Qxd6 28.Rcd1 Rf7 29.Re5 Qg6 30.h3 Kh7 31.Rde1 Qg5 32.g3 Qg6 33.Kh2 f4
34.g4 Qc2 35.a5 a6 36.Re6 Kg8 37.h4 Rff8 38.R1e4 Rd7 39.g5 hxg5 40.hxg5 Nc7 41.R6e5 g6
42.Bb4 Rh7+ 43.Kg1 Rf5 44.b3 Rxe5 45.Rxe5 Rh4 46.Kf1 Qb1+ 47.Be1 Rh7 48.Qxf4 Qxb3 49.Qg4
Qh3+ 50.Qxh3 Rxh3 51.Bd2 Kf7 52.Re4 Nd5 53.Ke2 Rh2 54.Re5 Rh1 55.Kd3 Rd1 56.Re4 Ra1 57.Kc4
Rb1 58.Kc5 Rf1 59.Re2 Ra1 60.Kd6 Ra2 61.f3 Rc2 62.Rf2 Ne7 63.Kc7 Rb2 64.Be1 Rb5 65.Re2 Nf5
66.Re5 Rb1 67.Re4 Rb3 68.Bd2 Rxf3 69.Bb4 Rb3 70.Bc5 Ne3 71.Re7+ Kg8 72.Re8+ Kf7 73.Rf8+ Kg7
74.Rb8 Nc4 75.Rxb7 Nxa5 76.Ra7 Kf7 77.Kd6+ Rb7 78.Rxa6 Rb5 79.Ra7+ Ke8 80.Rh7 Rb7 81.Rxb7
Nxb7+ 82.Ke6 Na5 83.Kf6 Nc4 1-0

Shredder - Quest

[Event "WMCCC 2001"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2001.08.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Shredder"]
[Black "Quest"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7
10.Be2 b5 11.Bxf6 Nxf6 12.e5 Bb7 13.Qg3 dxe5 14.fxe5 Nd7 15.Bxb5 axb5 16.Ndxb5 Qc5 17.Qxg7
Qxe5 18.Qxe5 Nxe5 19.Nc7+ Kf8 20.Nxa8 Bxa8 21.Rhe1 Ng4 22.Rd4 Rg8 23.Rc4 Nxh2 24.a4 h5
25.b4 h4 26.Ne4 Ng4 27.Re2 f5 28.Nf2 Nxf2 29.Rc8+ Kf7 30.Rxg8 Kxg8 31.Rxf2 Bxb4 32.c3 Bxc3
33.Rc2 f4 34.a5 Bd4 35.Rc8+ Kf7 36.Rxa8 f3 37.gxf3 h3 38.Rd8 h2 39.Rd7+ Kg6 40.Rxd4 h1=Q+
41.Kc2 e5 42.Rg4+ Kh7 43.Ra4 Qg2+ 44.Kc3 Qxf3+ 0-1

Round 6

Deep Junior 7 - Shredder ^[12]

[Event "WMCCC 2001"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2001.08.22"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Deep Junior"]
[Black "Shredder"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.Be2 Qc7 8.f4 b5 9.a3 Bb7
10.Bf3 Nbd7 11.Nde2 Rc8 12.O-O Be7 13.Kh1 O-O 14.b4 Nb6 15.Qd3 Rfd8 16.f5 Nc4
17.fxe6 fxe6 18.Bd4 Rd7 19.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Bg4 Re7 21.Qh3 Rce8 22.a4 bxa4 23.Bh5 Rf8
24.Bg4 Bc8 25.Rxa4 Ree8 26.Raa1 g6 27.Qg3 Qb6 28.Bh3 Qxb4 29.Qd3 Bg7 30.Rfb1 Qc5
31.Na4 Qc7 32.c3 Rf6 33.Nd4 Ref8 34.Nf3 Rf4 35.Nd4 Re8 36.Rf1 Rxf1+ 37.Rxf1 Bd7
38.Ra1 Kh8 39.Qf1 g5 40.Qd1 Ne5 41.g3 g4 42.Bg2 a5 43.Qc2 Rb8 44.Qc1 Nc4 45.Qe1
Bh6 46.h3 Ne3 47.hxg4 e5 48.Nf5 Bxf5 49.exf5 Nc2 50.Qd1 Nxa1 51.Qxa1 e4 52.Qd1 e3
53.Bf3 Bg7 54.Kg2 Re8 55.Kh3 Qc4 56.Be2 Qc6 57.g5 Be5 58.Nb2 d5 59.Nd3 Bxc3 60.Nf4
d4 61.Kh4 a4 62.f6 Rb8 63.Bf3 Qb5 64.g6 Rd8 65.g7+ Kg8 66.Qc2 Rd6 67.Qa2+ Qb3
68.Bd5+ Rxd5 69.Nxd5 Kf7 70.Qg2 d3 71.Qf3 Qb8 72.Qh5+ Ke6 73.Nxc3 e2 74.Qg4+ Kf7
75.Kg5 h6+ 76.Kxh6 e1=Q 77.Qg6+ Ke6 78.f7+ Kd7 79.Qxd3+ Kc7 80.Qc4+ Kb6 1-0

Round 8

Shredder vs. Chess Tiger ^[13]

[Event "WMCCC 2001"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2001.08.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Shredder"]
[Black "Chess Tiger"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 Bf5 4.Bd3 Bxd3 5.Qxd3 Nbd7 6.O-O e6 7.Nc3 c5 8.e4 cxd4 9.Nxd4 dxe4
10.Nxe4 Be7 11.Be3 O-O 12.Rad1 Qa5 13.Nxf6+ Nxf6 14.Qb3 Nd5 15.Qxb7 Rab8 16.Qd7 Rfd8
17.Nc6 Rxd7 18.Nxa5 Rxb2 19.c4 Nf6 20.Nc6 Bf8 21.Rxd7 Nxd7 22.Ra1 Bc5 23.Nxa7 Bxe3 24.fxe3
Ne5 25.a4 h5 26.a5 h4 27.h3 Nxc4 28.a6 Nb6 29.Nc6 Kh7 30.a7 Na8 31.Nd8 Kg6 32.Ra4 e5 33.Rxh4
Ra2 34.Nc6 Ra6 35.Nxe5+ Kg5 36.Rg4+ Kf6 37.Nd7+ Ke7 38.Nb8 Ra1+ 39.Kh2 Kd6 40.Rd4+ Kc7
41.Rd7+ Kb6 42.Rxf7 Rxa7 43.Nd7+ Kc6 44.Ne5+ Kb6 45.Nc4+ Ka6 46.Rxa7+ Kxa7 47.h4 Kb8
48.Nd6 g6 49.Nf7 1-0

Publications

Frank Schneider (2001). Deep Junior wins the 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3
Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons (2001). The CMG 6th Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3
Eric Hallsworth (2001). World [Micro!?] Computer Champs - Maastricht, Aug 2001. Selective Search 96, pp. 10, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

Forum Posts

Maastricht by Ed Schröder, CCC, August 03, 2001
WM Maastricht by Kai Skibbe, CCC, August 15, 2001
Re: WMCC Maastricht: Junior - [Event "9th WCCC Paderborn "] ?? by Álvaro Begué, CCC, August 19, 2001
Re: WMCCC Incorrect result? Rd 4 Tao-Ruy Lopez by Álvaro Begué, CCC, August 20, 2001
Some comments from Maastricht by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, August 20, 2001
WMCC Maastricht by Alexander Kure, CCC, August 22, 2001
WMCC Maastricht: start of round 8, top 4 boards by Alexander Kure, CCC, August 23, 2001

External Links

References

^ 6th Computer Olympiad - Location
^ Tongersestraat 53 | Building portfolio Facility Services, Maastricht University
^ 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Aug. 2001, Maastricht NED, CSVN site
^ 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship - Maastricht 2001 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Which version of Crafty played in Maastricht? by Ulf Flörsheimer, CCC, August 27, 2001
^ Ferret - Gandalf by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, August 19, 2001
^ Maastricht 2001 - Chess - Round 2 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Photo by Jeff Rollason, ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 172
^ Maastricht 2001 - Chess - Round 3 - Game 2 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Photo by Jeff Rollason, ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 163
^ Maastricht 2001 - Chess - Round 3 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Maastricht 2001 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
^ Maastricht 2001 - Chess - Round 8 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)

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6th Computer Olympiad	Jul 22, 2017
Chess Tiger	Jan 7, 2016
Computer Olympiad	Mar 6, 2018
Crafty	Jan 28, 2018
Diep	Jan 28, 2018
Ed Schroder	Feb 26, 2018
Eduard Nemeth	Nov 22, 2014
Frank Schneider	Jan 7, 2016
Gandalf	Jan 21, 2018
Goliath	Apr 5, 2017
Gromit	Apr 5, 2017
ICGA Journal	Dec 21, 2017
IsiChess	Jan 7, 2016
Junior	Feb 27, 2018
Maastricht University	May 15, 2017
Michael Borgstädt	Jan 24, 2016
Michel Langeveld	Feb 4, 2018
ParSOS	Jan 7, 2016
Pharaon	Sep 2, 2017
PocketGrandmaster	Sep 17, 2015
Ruy Lopez	Jun 3, 2017
Shredder	Jan 21, 2018
SOS	Apr 5, 2017
SpiderChess	Oct 4, 2017
Tao	Jan 8, 2016
WCCC 2002	Nov 24, 2017
Who's Who	Sep 6, 2017
WMCCC 2000	Feb 27, 2018
WMCCC 2001	Jul 25, 2017
World Microcomputer Chess Championship	Jan 7, 2016
XiniX	Jan 7, 2016

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