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The '''Third World Computer Chess Championship''' took place from September 25 to 29, [[Timeline#1980|1980]], at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucknerhaus Brucknerhaus], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linz Linz], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria Austria], under the auspices of the [[ICCA]]. The championship was held as part of Linz's annual [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucknerfest Bruckner Festival] and was presented as one of the special events in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Electronica Ars Electronica] activities, which included seminars on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics electronic] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts the arts], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_music computer music], and a microcomputer chess exhibition <ref>[http://90.146.8.18/de/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=9495 3. Computer-Schachweltmeisterschaft] (German), [http://90.146.8.18/de/archives/festival_archive/festival_overview.asp?iPresentationYearFrom=1980 Ars Electronica 1980]</ref> .The tournament organizers were [[David Levy]], [[Ben Mittman]] and [[Monroe Newborn]]. Special guests were [[Claude Shannon]], the developer of the information theory, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_%C3%93lafsson Friðrik Ólafsson], President of [[FIDE]]. Commentary was done in German and English by German Grandmaster [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Pfleger Helmut Pfleger].
It was a four round [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss tournament], with both [[Belle]] and [[CHAOS]] finishing with 3½. The championship was decided by the most exciting game of the tournament, a playoff between Shannon's [[Type A Strategy|Type A]] versus [[Type B Strategy|Type B strategy]] in presence of its innovator, which was won by Belle, the type A [[Brute-Force|brute force]] program with about 1000 times more [[Nodes per secondSecond|nodes per second]].
=Final Standing=
