UPCCC 1992
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The Queens' Building [1]
The 1992 QMW Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship was held August 3-7, 1992 at Queen Mary and Westfield College of London, initiated and organized by Don Beal. All games were played automatically.
Contents
C-Language Division
16 MHz 68030 Unix workstations.
Final Standing
| # | Program | CC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GNU Chess 3.1 | US | X | 2 | 1½ | 2 | 2 | 7½ |
| 2 | Phoenix | CA | 0 | X | 1½ | 2 | 2 | 5½ |
| 3 | Prochess | NL | ½ | ½ | X | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Ares | NL | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | NotChess | GB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 |
Participants
| Program | CC | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Ares | NL | Frans van Gool, Erik Leenders |
| GNU Chess 3.1 | US | Stuart Cracraft, John Stanback |
| NotChess | GB | Andy Walker |
| Phoenix | CA | Jonathan Schaeffer |
| Prochess | NL | Tom Pronk |
PC Division
16 MHz 80386 PC-clones, running MS-DOS.
Final Standing
| # | Program | CC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MChess | US | X | 1½ | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7½ |
| 2 | Now | US | ½ | X | 1 | 1½ | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | GNU Chess 3.1 | US | 0 | 1 | X | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Schach 3.0 | DE | 0 | ½ | 0 | X | 2 | 2½ |
| 5 | Pawnder | US | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 |
Participants
| Program | CC | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| GNU Chess 3.1 | US | Stuart Cracraft, John Stanback |
| MChess | US | Marty Hirsch |
| Now | US | Mark Lefler |
| Pawnder | US | Truman Collins |
| Schach 3.0 | DE | Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair |
Announcement
by Don Beal, May 15, 1992 [6] :
The QMW "uniform platform" or "software intelligence" Computer Chess Tournament will take place 3-7 Aug 1992 in London.
Anyone who has written a chess program can enter. The program has to be sent to QMW prior to the tournament - but attendance of authors at the tournament is optional, as the play will be automated, and the tournament organisers will initiate each game.
Programs will run on identical machines, running at the same clock speed, and with the same operating system underlying the chess program. There will be two divisions (1) programs written for 386 IBM-PC compatibles under MSDOS (will be run as binaries) (2) programs written in C (will be compiled using the same C compiler and run on Unix machines (68030 cpu)). (The C source will be treated as confidential and compiled without being examined or kept.)
Programmers must incorporate into their programs a simple software interface that enables automatic transmission and reception of moves from the other program. The communications software is provided by the organisers.
Tournament Organizer
Reports
- Don Beal (1992). The 1992 QMW Uniform-Platform Autoplay Computer-Chess Tournament. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3
Forum Posts
- computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, May 15, 1992
- GNU Chess wins London computer chess tourney by Stuart Cracraft, gnu.chess, August 17, 1992
- QMW uniform-platform computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, August 18, 1992
- Re: Computer Chess by Andy Walker, rec.games.chess, September 23, 1992
External Links
- QMW "Uniform Platform" Computer-Chess Tournament from the old CSVN site
References
- ↑ Image by Ewan Munro, September 21, 2008, Queen Mary, University of London from Wikipedia
- ↑ QMW "Uniform Platform" Computer-Chess Tournament from the old CSVN site
- ↑ QMW uniform-platform computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, August 18, 1992
- ↑ QMW "Uniform Platform" Computer-Chess Tournament from the old CSVN site
- ↑ QMW uniform-platform computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, August 18, 1992
- ↑ computer chess tournament by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, May 15, 1992
