World Computer Chess Championship

World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is organized by the International Computer Games Association. It is often held in conjunction with the Computer Olympiad, a collection of computer tournaments for other board games.

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Championship results

The WCCC was open to all types of computers including microprocessors, supercomputers, clusters, and dedicated chess hardware.

In 2007, the reigning champion Junior declined to defend its title.

For the 2009 edition, the rules were changed to limit platforms to commodity hardware supporting at most eight cores,[1] thereby excluding supercomputers and large clusters.

Event # Year Location Winner
1 1974 Stockholm Kaissa
2 1977 Toronto Chess 4.6
3 1980 Linz Belle
4 1983 New York, NY Cray Blitz
5 1986 Cologne Cray Blitz
6 1989 Edmonton, Canada Deep Thought
7 1992 Madrid, Spain ChessMachine (Gideon)
8 1995 Hong Kong Fritz
9 1999 Paderborn, Germany Shredder
10 2002 Maastricht, Netherlands Deep Junior
11 2003 Graz, Austria Shredder
12 2004 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Deep Junior
13 2005 Reykjavík, Iceland Zappa
14 2006 Torino, Italy Junior
15 2007 Amsterdam, Netherlands Zappa[wccc 1]
16 2008 Beijing, China HIARCS[wccc 1]
17 2009 Pamplona, Spain Junior, Shredder, Sjeng[wccc 1]
18 2010 Kanazawa, Japan Rondo, Thinker[wccc 1]
19 2011 Tilburg, Netherlands Junior
  1. ^ a b c d Although Rybka placed first at the WCCC from 2007 to 2010, the program was found to have plagiarized Crafty and Fruit (the GPL'ed runner-up in 2005), and was stripped of its titles. (Doggers, Peter. "Rybka disqualified and banned from World Computer Chess Championships". Chess Vibes. http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/rybka-disqualified-and-banned-from-world-computer-chess-championships/. Retrieved 29 June 2011. )

World Microcomputer Chess Championship

From 1980 to 2001, there was a separate cycle of championships limited to programs running on microprocessors. Up until 1991, the winners were dedicated units. Thereafter, winners were running on state-of-the-art personal computers. The event was also run by the ICGA.

At the 14th WMCCC in Jakarta, the Israeli team Junior was denied entry to Indonesia and some other teams dropped out in protest.

The 16th WMCCC was the same as the 9th WCCC above.

Event # Year Location Winner
1 1980 London Fidelity Chess Challenger
2 1981 Travemünde Fidelity X
3 1983 Budapest Fidelity Elite A/S
4 1984 Glasgow Fidelity Elite X, Mephisto, Princhess X, Psion
5 1985 Amsterdam Mephisto / Nona
6 1986 Dallas Mephisto
7 1987 Rome Mephisto / Psion
8 1988 Almería Mephisto
9 1989 Portorož Mephisto
10 1990 Lyon Mephisto
11 1991 Vancouver, Canada ChessMachine (Gideon)
12 1993 Munich HIARCS
13 1995 Paderborn, Germany MChess Pro 5.0
14 1996 Jakarta Shredder
15 1997 Paris Junior
16 1999 Paderborn, Germany Shredder
17 2000 London Shredder
18 2001 Maastricht Deep Junior

World Chess Software Championship

From 2010 a new tournament was introduced and held at the same location and during the same period as the World Computer Chess Championship. The rules for the World Chess Software Championship state that competing programs must run on machines with identical hardware specifications.[2][3] The winner of the first World Chess Software Championship (in 2010) was Shredder.[4] The 2011 event used Intel dual core processors running at 1.83 GHz, with 2 GB of memory for hash tables. It was won by HIARCS.

See also

References

  1. ^ Clarification of the 8-cores rule for the WCCC
  2. ^ Article on the World Chess Software Championship
  3. ^ HIARCS announcement of new tournament
  4. ^ ChessCentral report on 2010 World Chess Software Championship

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