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[[FILE:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00457, Emanuel Lasker.jpg|border|right|thumb|[[Mathematician#EmanuelLasker|Emanuel Lasker]] <ref>[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/index.html.en German Federal Archive], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker Emanuel Lasker from Wikipedia]</ref>]]

The '''First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament''' (BELCT) took place at the [[Free University of Berlin]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin Berlin], from September 29 until October 3, [[Timeline#2001|2001]]. The Tournament was the idea of the "Berlin Computer Chess Friends", [[Ingo Bauer]], [[Peter Berger]], [[Thorsten Czub]], [[Stefan Knappe]], [[Heiner Marxen]] and [[Volker Pittlik]], and was devoted to [[Mathematician#EmanuelLasker|Emanuel Lasker]], supported by the ''Emanuel Lasker Society'' <ref>[http://www.lasker-gesellschaft.de/society/flyer.html Emanuel Lasker Society]</ref>. The hardware was kindly provided by [[AMD]] Germany. As a kind of opening ceremony, professor [[Raúl Rojas]] from the Free University and host of the tournament, hold an exclusive lecture for all participants about [[Konrad Zuse|Konrad Zuse's]] [[Konrad Zuse#Plankalkuel|Plankalkül]], including some chess routines written in it. The First BELCT was played with ten participants, seven round swiss, time-control 90 minutes per side and game.

=Final Standing=
<ref>[http://www.vrichey.de/berlin2001/belct2001gamestable.htm 1st Berlin Emanuel-LaskerComputer Chess Tournament] by [[Volker Richey]]</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Program
! CC
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! 5
! 6
! 7
! Total
! SOS
! SoDOS
|-
! 1
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chess Tiger|Gambit Tiger]]
! FR
| style="text-align:right;" | 6w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 7w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 8b½
! 5
| style="text-align:center;" | 28
| style="text-align:center;" | 20
|-
! 2
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Rebel]]
! NL
| style="text-align:right;" | 3b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 10w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 7w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 6w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 9b1
! 5
| style="text-align:center;" | 23
| style="text-align:center;" | 13¾
|-
! 3
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Yace]]
! DE
| style="text-align:right;" | 2w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 7b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 1w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 8b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 9w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b0
! 4½
| style="text-align:center;" | 26
| style="text-align:center;" | 15¼
|-
! 4
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Zarkov]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 8b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 7b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 9w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 10b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 3w1
! 4½
| style="text-align:center;" | 22
| style="text-align:center;" | 10½
|-
! 5
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Patzer]]
! DE
| style="text-align:right;" | 7w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 9b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 4w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 1b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 8w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 10w1
! 4½
| style="text-align:center;" | 21
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
! 6
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Bringer]]
! DE
| style="text-align:right;" | 1b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 10b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 5w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 9b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 7w½
! 4
| style="text-align:center;" | 22
| style="text-align:center;" | 9½
|-
! 7
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Quark]]
! DE
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 3w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 4w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 2b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 10w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6b½
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 28
| style="text-align:center;" | 9¼
|-
! 8
| style="text-align:left;" | [[IsiChess]] <ref>[[IsiChess]] for [[Windows]], with an [[Check|in check]] [[Move Generation|move generation]] bug, which showed up in the [[Patzer]] game - the author was not yet aware of [[Perft]]</ref>
! DE
| style="text-align:right;" | 4w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 9w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 10b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 3w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 1w½
! 2½
| style="text-align:center;" | 24½
| style="text-align:center;" | 5¾
|-
! 9
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Neurologic]]
! DE
| style="text-align:right;" | 10b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 5w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 8b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 3b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 2w0
! 1½
| style="text-align:center;" | 25½
| style="text-align:center;" | 3¾
|-
! 10
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Matador|Lokalmatador]] <ref>[http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lokalmatador Lokalmatador – Wiktionary]</ref>
! DE
| style="text-align:right;" | 9w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 2b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 7b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 4w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b0
! ½
| style="text-align:center;" | 25
| style="text-align:center;" | ¾
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
* SOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_system Sum of Opponent Scores]
* SoDOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadtl_score Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores]

=Participants=
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Engine
! Author
! Origin
! Operator
! [[AMD]] Hardware
|-
| [[Bringer]]
| [[Gerrit Reubold]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany Germany]
| [[Peter Berger]]
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1333 256 MB
|-
| [[Chess Tiger|Gambit Tiger]]
| [[Christophe Théron]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe Guadeloupe]
| [[Heiner Marxen]]
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1400 256 MB
|-
| [[IsiChess]]
| [[Gerd Isenberg]]
| Germany
|
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1400 512 MB
|-
| [[Matador|Lokalmatador]]
| [[Stefan Knappe]]
| Germany
|
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1400 256 MB
|-
| [[Neurologic]]
| [[Jochen Peussner]]
| Germany
|
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1333 256 MB
|-
| [[Patzer]]
| [[Roland Pfister]]
| Germany
|
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1400 256 MB
|-
| [[Quark]]
| [[Thomas Mayer]]
| Germany
|
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1400 256 MB
|-
| [[Rebel]]
| [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands The Netherlands]
| [[Thorsten Czub]]
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1200 384 MB
|-
| [[Yace]]
| [[Dieter Bürssner]]
| Germany
| [[Ingo Bauer]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 2xAthlon 1200 512MB
|-
| [[Zarkov]]
| [[John Stanback]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States]
| [[Thorsten Czub]]
| style="text-align:right;" | Athlon 1400 256 MB
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]

=Photos=
<ref>Photos from [http://www.quarkchess.de/belct/ BELCT 2001 Berlin is worth a trip!] by [[Thomas Mayer]]</ref>
==Participants==
[[FILE:7.07-all.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.quarkchess.de/belct/]]
[[Gerd Isenberg]], [[Thomas Mayer]], [[Heiner Marxen]], [[Jochen Peussner]], [[Roland Pfister]], [[Thorsten Czub]],<br/>[[Stefan Knappe]], [[Ingo Bauer]] and [[Peter Berger]]

==Mayer-Marx-Engels==
[[FILE:5.18-ThomasMarxEngels.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.quarkchess.de/belct/]]
[[Thomas Mayer|Mayer]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Marx] & [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels Engels], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx-Engels_Forum Marx-Engels Forum], in the background the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Republic,_Berlin Palace of the Republic] <ref>nickname 'Erichs Lampenladen' (Erich's lamp store), referring to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Honecker Erich Honecker] and the foyer lighting with numerous light balls, demolished in 2007, planned to rebuilt the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia Prussian-era] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtschloss,_Berlin#Plans_for_reconstruction Stadtschloss, Berlin]</ref>

==Dem Deutschen Volke==
[[FILE:5.23-reichstag.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.quarkchess.de/belct/]]
[[Gerd Isenberg|Gerd]], [[Roland Pfister|Roland]], [[Peter Berger|Peter]], [[Heiner Marxen|Heiner]], [[Thorsten Czub|Thorsten]] and [[Ingo Bauer|Ingo]] in diffuse national pride in front of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_%28building%29 Reichstag building] <ref>The dedication [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dem_deutschen_Volke Dem deutschen Volke], meaning To the German people or For the German people</ref>

==Over the board==
[[FILE:6.03-heinerroland.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.quarkchess.de/belct/]]
[[Heiner Marxen|Heiner]] & [[Roland Pfister|Roland]] near to the draw between [[Patzer]] & [[Chess Tiger|Tiger]]

[[FILE:5.07-GerdJochen.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|639px|link=http://www.quarkchess.de/belct/]]
[[Gerd Isenberg|Gerd]] & [[Jochen Peussner|Jochen]] just before the match [[IsiChess]] - [[Neurologic]]

=Tournament Organizers=
* [[Ingo Bauer]]
* [[Peter Berger]]
* [[Thorsten Czub]]
* [[Stefan Knappe]]
* [[Heiner Marxen]]
* [[Volker Pittlik]]

=Tournament Host=
* [[Raúl Rojas]], [[Free University of Berlin]]

=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34614 BELCT2001 - Computerschachturnier in Berlin - bist DU dabei] by [[Peter Berger]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September 23, 2001
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34677 Berlin (after Thorsten)] by WYx, [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], October 03, 2001

=External Links=
* [http://www.thorstenczub.de/scw.html Schachcomputerwelt] - [[Thorsten Czub|Thorsten Czub's]] magazine covers the 1. BELCT (German)
* [http://www.rebel.nl/lasker.htm First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament 2001] by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]]
* [http://www.vrichey.de/berlin2001/ 1st Berlin Emanuel-Lasker Computer Chess Tournament] by [[Volker Richey]]

=References=
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