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Maastricht University

The Tenth World Computer Chess Championship took place from July 5 - 11, 2002, at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the 7th Computer Olympiad.

The WCCC as well the Olympiad were held in the former residence of the Gouvernor of Limburg in the historic center of Maastricht, Bouillonstraat 1-3, which now belongs to the Maastricht University. Comments during the games as well as after round press conferences were given by the Dutch Journalist and International Master Hans Böhm .The 10th WCCC was a tough duel between Junior and Shredder. Junior lost vs. Shredder in round four and had a great game against Donninger's Brutus in round six, while Shredder lost no game but had three draws. Both programs therefor had 7½ points after nine rounds - two 15 minutes blitz playoff games were agreed to decide the tournament. Shredder lost the first one with White and missed the opportunity to transpose into a winning pawn endgame in playoff game two . Junior finally was the lucky but deserved winner.

Final Standing

10th World Computer Chess Championship 2002, Maastricht NL

#	Program	CC	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	P	SOS	SoDOS	Playoff
1	Junior	IL	8b½	11w1	5b1	2w0	9w1	3b1	4w1	6b1	12w1	7½	48	38¼	2b1 2w½
2	Shredder	DE	7w1	9b1	3w½	1b1	4w½	12b1	8w1	5b½	10w1	7½	47½	38½	1w0 1b½
3	Brutus	AT	10b1	12w1	2b½	4w½	6b1	1w0	7b1	13w1	5b1	7	48	33¾
4	Quest	NL	16w1	14b1	6w½	3b½	2b½	5w½	1b0	7w1	9b1	6	48	28¼
5	Diep	NL	18w1	6b½	1w0	7b½	11w1	4b½	9b1	2w½	3w0	5	46½	20½
6	Warp	NZ	15w1	5w½	4b½	14b1	3w0	7b0	12w1	1w0	13b1	5	45½	21
7	IsiChess	DE	2b0	8w½	13b1	5w½	17b1	6w1	3w0	4b0	11w½	4½	45½	18
8	Ikarus	DE	1w½	7b½	15w1	9b½	12w½	13b½	2b0	10w0	17b1	4½	42	17¾
9	ParSOS	DE	13w1	2w0	17b1	8w½	1b0	11b1	5w0	18b1	4w0	4½	41	12¾
10	Chinito	EU	3w0	15b0	16w1	11b0	18w1	14b½	17w1	8b1	2b0	4½	36	11½
11	Goliath	DE	12b0	1b0	18w1	10w1	5b0	9w0	16b1	17w1	7b½	4½	35	11¾
12	Sjeng	BE	11w1	3b0	14w½	15b1	8b½	2w0	6b0	16w1	1b0	4	46½	15¼
13	XiniX	NL	9b0	16b½	7w0	18b1	14w1	8w½	15b1	3b0	6w0	4	36	11¼
14	Insomniac	US	17b1	4w0	12b½	6w0	13b0	10w½	18b1	15w½	16b½	4	32	9½
15	SpiderChess	NL	6b0	10w1	8b0	12w0	16w½	17b½	13w0	14b½	18w1	3½	31	9
16	PostModernist	GB	4b0	13w½	10b0	17w½	15b½	18w1	11w0	12b0	14w½	3	32½	6¾
17	NoonianChess	US	14w0	18b1	9w0	16b½	7w0	15w½	10b0	11b0	8w0	2	33	3¼
18	Sharky	US	5b0	17w0	11b0	13w0	10b0	16b0	14w0	9w0	15b0	0	35	0

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores (excluding playoff)
• SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores (excluding playoff)

Participants

10th World Computer Chess Championship 2002, Maastricht NL

Program	CC	Authors and Operators	Hardware
Brutus	AT	Chrilly Donninger, Alex Kure	AMD Xilinx Virtix FPGA, 1GHz
Chinito	EU	Eugenio Castillo Jiménez, Pascal Tang	Intel Pentium4 1.7 GHz
Diep	NL	Vincent Diepeveen, Arturo Ochoa	Teras 60x 500 MHz
Goliath	DE	Michael Borgstädt, Erdogan Günes	AMD Athlon XP 1500
Ikarus	DE	Muntsin Kolss, Munjong Kolss	AMD Athlon 2000+
Insomniac	US	James Robertson, Josef Zwinger	AMD Athlon XP 2100
IsiChess	DE	Gerd Isenberg	AMD 2.1 GHz
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky, Boris Alterman	Intel 2xPentium_4 2.2 GHz
NoonianChess	US	Charles Roberson	Intel P4 2 GHz
ParSOS	DE	Rudolf Huber	Intel 2xPentium3 1 GHz
PostModernist	GB	Andrew Williams	Intel P4 1.7 GHz
Quest	NL	Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist, Alex Kure	AMD 2xAthlon 2000+
Sharky	US	John Kominek	Intel P3 500 MHz
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi	AMD 2xAthlon 2100
Sjeng	BE	Gian-Carlo Pascutto	AMD Athlon XP 1800
SpiderChess	NL	Martin Giepmans	AMD Athlon XP 2000
Warp	NZ	Peter McKenzie	Intel Pentium4 1.7 GHz
XiniX	NL	Tony Werten	AMD Athlon 2000+

• CC Country Codes

Photos

Tournament halll

Ikarus - Sjeng, Muntsin Kolss, Gian-Carlo Pascutto and Elke Van Vlierberghe

Boris Alterman, Alex Kure, Shay Bushinsky, Amir Ban, Tony Marsland and Jaap van den Herik

Special Events

Alterman Simul

As a special event, Grandmaster and Junior's opening book author Boris Alterman had the courage to play a simultaneous exhibition against 11 of the computer participants - he won from Insomniac, drew from Brutus, Goliath, NoonianChess and Shredder, and lost against Diep, Ikarus, IsiChess, ParSOS, Sjeng and one other program .

Nalimov Lecture

Eugene Nalimov, winner of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award and Guest of Honor at the 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, gave a well attended lecture about his endgame tablebases .

Tournament Director

• Jaap van den Herik

See also

• 7th Computer Olympiad
• WMCCC 2001

Publications

• Jaap van den Herik, Johanna Hellemons (2002). The Seventh Computer Olympiad. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 » 7th Computer Olympiad
• James Robertson (2002). The 10th World Computer-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3
• Eric Hallsworth (2002). The 2002 World Champs. Selective Search 102, pp. 16, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, amazon

Chapter 3: 2002: Shredder Bows to Deep Junior at the 10th WCCC, page 47

Forum Posts

• WCCC 2002: Round 2 - WARP vs. DIEP (my analysis) by Eduard Nemeth, CCC, July 07, 2002
• WCCC Round 3: Quest vs Warp [maybe draw?] by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, July 07, 2002
• WCCC 2002: Congratulation to TEAM-JUNIOR ! by Eduard Nemeth, CCC, July 11, 2002
• Warp - Diep, WCCC by Peter McKenzie, CCC, December 02, 2002

External Links

• 10th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
• Welcome to a Computer-Games Minded Maastricht, ChessBase News, June 28, 2002 (ICGA Press Release)
• The 7th Computer Olympiad (Maastricht, July 2002)
• 10th World Computer Chess Championship, Maastricht 2002 by Volker Richey
• World Computer Chess Championship : 10th WCCC : 2002 Maastricht by Mark Weeks
• Vormärz by Chrilly Donninger, Old CSVN site (German)
• Junior is wereldkampioen! Old CSVN site (Dutch)

References

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