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Former Edmonton Convention Centre [1]

The Sixth World Computer Chess Championship took place from May 28 to 31, 1989, in the Edmonton Convention Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was held in conjunction with Congress '89 [2] of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), and was sponsored by Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) [3]. Tony Marsland's hard work in obtaining funds and recruiting attendees was apparent in the impressive chess expertise available to comment on the event - he further organized the New Directions in Game-Tree Search two-day workshop during the tournament. 24 teams from 9 nations participated. Canadian Chess Champion Kevin Spraggett was present commentating on the games along with David Levy, Mike Valvo, Danny Kopec, Julio Kaplan and David Slate. A large crowd of about 300 were on site during most of the games [4] . Deep Thought won with a perfect score, winning all five games - runner up was Bebe.

Final Standing

6th World Computer Chess Championship 1989, Edmonton CA [5] [6]

# Program CC R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Total SOS SoDOS
1 Deep Thought US 22b1 16w1 6b1 3w1 4b1 5 13 13
2 Bebe US 19b1 3w0 18b1 16w1 8w1 4 12½ 9
3 Cray Blitz US 15w1 2b1 4w½ 1b0 9w1 3½ 17½ 10¾
4 HiTech US 9b1 14w1 3b½ 6w1 1w0 3½ 16½ 9¾
5 Mephisto X GB 18b0 17w1 7w1 11b½ 12w1 3½ 12 8¾
6 Fidelity X US 21w1 8b1 1w0 4b0 11w1 3 16 7½
7 AI Chess US 23w1 10w½ 5b0 12b½ 16w1 3 11½ 5½
8 Merlin AT 24b1 6w0 20b1 10w1 2b0 3 11½ 4½
9 Much NL 4w0 13b½ 15w1 21b1 3b0 2½ 14 5¾
10 Sun Phoenix CA 12w1 7b½ 11w½ 8b0 13w½ 2½ 13½ 6½
11 Novag X US 17b½ 18w1 10b½ 5w½ 6b0 2½ 13 6
12 Zarkov US 10b0 23w1 14b1 7w½ 5b0 2½ 12½ 5
13 Y!89 SE 14b0 9w½ 17b½ 18w1 10b½ 2½ 11½ 5½
14 Quest X NL 13w1 4b0 12w0 23b1 19w½ 2½ 11½ 4½
15 BP US 3b0 19w1 9b0 20w½ 22b1 2½ 11 4
16 Rebel X NL 20w1 1b0 21w1 2b0 7b0 2 16 4
17 Kallisto NL 11w½ 5b0 13w½ 19b½ 20b½ 2 12½ 4½
18 Waycool US 5w1 11b0 2w0 13b0 24w1 2 12½ 3½
19 Pandix HU 2w0 15b0 22b1 17w½ 14b½ 2 12 3¼
20 Rex US 16b0 22w1 8w0 15b½ 17w½ 2 10½ 3¼
21 Dappet NL 6b0 24w1 16b0 9w0 23w1 2 8½ 1
22 Moby GB 1w0 20b0 19w0 24b1 15w0 1 11½ 0
23 Shess NL 7b0 12b0 24w1 14w0 21b0 1 10 0
24 Centaur SU 8w0 21b0 23b0 22w0 18b0 0 9 0

Participants

6th World Computer Chess Championship 1989, Edmonton CA [7]

Program CC Team Hardware Language Nodes/s
AI Chess US Marty Hirsch Dyna 8086 C, Assembly 2,500
Bebe US Tony & Linda Scherzer Sys-10 bit slice Assembly 45,000
BP US Robert Cullum Unisys PW800 PC 386 C, Assembly 600
Centaur SU Victor Vikhrev IBM PS2/80 486 Pascal 1,000
Cray Blitz US Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower, Harry Nelson Cray Y-MP/8 Fortran, CAL 100,000
Dappet NL Dap Hartmann, Peter Kouwenhoven Toshiba PC Turbo Pascal 200 - 800
Deep Thought US Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman,
Mike Browne, Murray Campbell,
Peter Jansen, Andreas Nowatzyk 		VLSI-Sys C, Assembly 1,000,000
Fidelity X US Dan & Kathe Spracklen, Ron Nelson 68030 Assembly 10,000
HiTech US Hans Berliner, Carl Ebeling, Murray Campbell,
Gordon Goetsch, Andy Gruss, Andrew Palay,
Larry Slomer 		VLSI-Sys C 100,000
Kallisto NL Bart Weststrate Apple II Assembly 3,000 - 6,000
Mephisto X GB Richard Lang 68020 Assembly 2,000
Merlin AT Hermann Kaindl, Helmut Horacek,
Marcus Wagner 		IBM 3090 Pascal
Moby GB Mark Taylor, Greg Wilson, David Levy Meiko Computing Surface Occam 250
Much NL Jaap van den Herik, Roger Hünen,
Harry Nefkens, Tom Pronk 		Sun-4 C 3,000
Novag X US David Kittinger 6502 Assembly 2,800
Pandix HU Gyula & Zsuzsa Horváth Sanyo PC 386 C, Assembly 300
Quest X NL Frans Morsch 6502 Assembly 8,000
Rebel X NL Ed Schröder, Jan Louwman 6502 Assembly 2,000
Rex US Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman Unisys PW800 PC 386 Pascal
Shess NL Ard van Bergen Vax 8600 Fortran 400
Sun Phoenix CA Jonathan Schaeffer 20 x Sun-4 C 10,000
Waycool US Ed Felten, Steve Otto, Rod Morison nCUBE10 512 x Intel 80286 C
Y!89 SE Ulf Rathsman, Lars Hjörth, Sandro Necchi 6502 Assembly 5,000
Zarkov US John Stanback HP 9000/835 C 2,500

Photos

5-2 and 3-1.Hsu.WCCC.Edmonton.1989.102645331.NEWBORN.lg.jpg

Feng-hsiung Hsu [8]

3-1.Michie.WCCC.Edmonton.1989.102645374.NEWBORN.lg.jpg

Michie at the 6th WCCC [9]

3-1 and 3-2.Thompson Shannon Slate.WCCC.Edmonton.1989.102645362.NEWBORN.lg.jpg

Thompson, Shannon, and Slate at the 6th WCCC [10]

3-1 and 3-2.Levy Thompson.WCCC.Edmonton.1989.102645367.NEWBORN.lg.jpg

David Levy and Ken Thompson [11]

5-2.Hsu and Shannon 1989.102645330.HSU.lg.jpg

Claude Shannon awards Feng-hsiung Hsu, first prize for Deep Thought [12]

Photos & Games

Hitech-DeepThought-Edmonton-1989.jpg

The game HiTech vs Deep Thought from the 5th (and last) round [13] [14]
Hans Berliner, Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu and Peter Jansen [15] 

[Event "WCCC 1989"]
[Site "Edmonton, Canada"]
[Date "1989.05.31"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Hitech"]
[Black "Deep Thought"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 e6 4.e3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 Be7 6.h3 O-O 7.Be2 Nh5 8.Bh2 g6 9.O-O f5
10.Be5 Nxe5 11.Nxe5 Nf6 12.c4 c5 13.Ndf3 Bd6 14.a3 Qc7 15.Rc1 a5 16.Qb3 b6 17.Qa4 Bb7
18.Rc2 Kh8 19.cxd5 Bxd5 20.Rd1 Rad8 21.Bb5 Ne4 22.Nd7 Rg8 23.Nfe5 Rg7 24.Rd3 Be7 25.Rd1
h5 26.Rdc1 Bg5 27.Re1 Bh4 28.Rf1 Be7 29.Rfc1 g5 30.f3 Nf6 31.Kf1 g4 32.hxg4 hxg4 33.f4
Be4 34.Rd2 Nd5 35.Re2 Rh7 36.Ree1 Nxe3+ 37.Kg1 Nd5 38.Ng6+ Kg7 39.Nxe7 Qxf4 40.Nxf5+ exf5
41.Rxe4 Qxc1+ 42.Bf1 fxe4 43.Qb3 Rh1+ 44.Kxh1 Qxf1+ 45.Kh2 Rh8+ 46.Qh3 g3+ 47.Kxg3 Qf4#
0-1

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [1]

Honored Guests

Invited Guests

Tournament Director

Workshop

The Workshop New Directions in Game Tree Search was organized by Tony Marsland [16] and held in conjunction with the WCCC on May 29 and 30, 1989. Revised contributions of the workshop were published in Computers, Chess, and Cognition.

Session 1

The first session was disclosed by John McCarthy mentioning the often cited metaphor of computer chess as the Drosophila of artificial intelligence research, and attributed it to Alexander Kronrod [17] :

Session 2

The second day began with opening remarks by Claude Shannon, who recalled that in the 40s relays rather than transistors were the state of the art. He still feft that games were an excellent test bed for understanding intelligence, and predicted that within the next 25 years computers would outplay the best humans at chess [18] :

Congress '89

John McCarthy and Donald Michie were invited speakers of the Congress '89 conference of the Canadian Information Processing Society on May 31, 1989 [19] . Their presentations were also published in Computers, Chess, and Cognition:

Poll

When will a Program beat the human Chess World Champion? A poll by David Levy during the WCCC 1989 [20] .

1992 Gyula Horváth, Monty Newborn
1993 John McCarthy
1994 Hans Berliner, Marty Hirsch, Feng-hsiung Hsu
1995 Murray Campbell, Larry Kaufman, David Kittinger, Danny Kopec, Donald Michie, David Slate, Mike Valvo
1997 John Stanback
1998 Kevin O’Connell
1999 Ed Felten, Tom Pronk, Sidney Samole, Claude Shannon, Jos Uiterwijk
2000 Robert Hyatt, Kevin Spraggett, Victor Vikhrev, Jaap van den Herik
2001 Jürg Nievergelt, Mark Taylor
2002 Julio Kaplan
2005 Richard Lang, Pierre Nolot, Ard van Bergen
2008 Harry Nelson
2010 Don Dailey, Ossi Weiner
2011 Lars Hjörth
2013 Tony Scherzer
2014 David Levy
2020 Tony Marsland
2025 Dap Hartmann
2030 Frans Morsch
2040 Jonathan Schaeffer
2050 Harm Bakker
2056 Helmut Horacek
Never David Cahlander

See also

Booklet

Reports

Tournament

Workshop

Postings

External Links

References

  1. ↑ Main Entrance of the Shaw Conference Centre (since 1997), formerly the Edmonton Convention Centre, Photo taken Downtown Edmonton, Alberta, August 14, 2006, Myke Waddy
  2. ↑ Prospect for the 90's : CIPS Congress '89 : proceedings : Edmonton, Alberta, May 29-June 2, 1989
  3. ↑ Garth Courtois Jr. (1989). The Sixth World Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
  4. ↑ World Computer Chess Championship (the human side) by Feng-hsiung Hsu, rec.games.chess, June 04, 1989
  5. ↑ 6th World Computer Chess Championship ICGA tournament site
  6. ↑ World Computer Chess Championship - 6th WCCC - 1989 Edmonton by Mark Weeks
  7. ↑ Garth Courtois Jr. (1989). The Sixth World Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
  8. ↑ Chess temporary, The Computer History Museum
  9. ↑ Michie at the 6th World Computer Chess Championship in Edmonton, Alberta, Gift of Monroe Newborn, The Computer History Museum
  10. ↑ Thompson, Shannon, and Slate, Gift of Monroe Newborn, The Computer History Museum
  11. ↑ Chess temporary, The Computer History Museum
  12. ↑ Claude Shannon awards Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Gift of Feng-hsiung Hsu, The Computer History Museum
  13. ↑ Edmonton 1989 - Chess - Round 5 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
  14. ↑ Ray Keene (1989). Deep Thoughts from Edmonton. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
  15. ↑ Photo by Pierre Nolot
  16. ↑ Tony Marsland (1989). New Directions in Game-Tree Search. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
  17. ↑ James Gillogly (1989). New Directions in Game-Tree Search - First Workshop Session. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
  18. ↑ Murray Campbell (1989). New Directions in Game-Tree Search - Second Workshop Session. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
  19. ↑ David Slate (1989). Invited Speakers: Donald Michie and John McCarthy. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2
  20. ↑ Wann wird ein Computer den Weltmeister schlagen?, Schachcomputer.info - Wiki (German)

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