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The Seventeenth World Computer Chess Championship took place from May 10 to 18, 2009, at Palacio del Condestable, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain, in conjunction with the 14th Computer Olympiad, also covering chess, and the Advances in Computer Games 12 conference.

After the disqualification of Rybka in June 2011, Junior, Shredder and Deep Sjeng are World Computer Chess Champions 2009

Final Standing

17th World Computer Chess Championship 2009, Pamplona, ES

#	Program	CC	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	P
-	Rybka	US	3w1	10b1	8w1	9b1	7w1	6b1	4w½	5b½	2w1	8
2 (1)	Junior	IL	10b1	9w1	6b1	5w1	3b½	8w½	7w1	4b½	1b0	6½
3 (1)	Deep Sjeng	BE	1b0	8w1	7b½	4b½	2w½	10b1	9w1	6b1	5w1	6½
4 (1)	Shredder	DE	9b1	6w½	5b½	3w½	8b1	7b1	1b½	2w½	10w1	6½
5 (4)	HIARCS	GB	8w1	7b1	4w½	2b0	10w1	9b1	6w1	1w½	3b0	6
6 (5)	Jonny	DE	7w1	4b½	2w0	10b1	9w1	1w0	5b0	3w0	8b1	4½
7 (6)	The Baron	NL	6b0	5w0	3w½	8b1	1b0	4w0	2b0	10b1	9w½	3
8 (7)	Equinox	IT	5b0	3b0	1b0	7w0	4w0	2b½	10w1	9b½	6w0	2
9 (8)	Pandix 2009	HU	4w0	2b0	10w½	1w0	6b0	5w0	3b0	8w½	7b½	1½
10 (9)	Joker	NL	2w0	1w0	9b½	6w0	5b0	3w0	8b0	7w0	4b0	½

• CC Country Codes

Participants

17th World Computer Chess Championship 2009, Pamplona, ES

Program	CC	Authors	Hardware
Deep Sjeng	BE	Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Erdogan Günes	AMD 3.2Ghz x 4
Equinox	IT	Giancarlo Delli Colli, Stefano Rocchi, Harry Schnapp	8x Intel Xeon CPU X5355 2.66GHz
HIARCS	GB	Mark Uniacke, Harvey Williamson	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8
Joker	NL	Harm Geert Muller	Intel 2.33GHz Core 2 Quad (one core)
Jonny	DE	Johannes Zwanzger
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky, Alon Greenfeld	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8
Pandix	HU	Gyula Horváth
Rybka	US	Vasik Rajlich	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Sandro Necchi	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8
The Baron	NL	Richard Pijl	AMD Opteron 270 @ 2.0Ghz x 4

• CC Country Codes

Photos & Games

Round 6, Pandix - HIARCS, David Levy, Gyula Horváth and Harvey Williamson

[Event "WCCC 2009"]
[Site "Pamplona, Spain"]
[Date "2009.05.16"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Pandix 2009"]
[Black "Hiarcs"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Be2 O-O 8.O-O dxc4
9.Bxc4 a6 10.a4 Qc7 11.Rd1 b5 12.axb5 cxb5 13.Bxb5 axb5 14.Rxa8 b4 15.e4 Bb7
16.Rxf8+ Bxf8 17.Nd2 Nb6 18.f3 bxc3 19.Qxc3 Qb8 20.Nc4 Nxc4 21.Qxc4 Ne8 22.Be3
Bd6 23.h3 Bg3 24.b4 h6 25.b5 Nd6 26.Qb3 Qe8 27.b6 f5 28.e5 f4 29.exd6 fxe3
30.Qxe3 Bxd6 31.d5 e5 32.Rb1 Qc8 33.Rc1 Qa8 34.Kh1 Qa4 35.Qe4 Qb5 36.Rb1 Qa5
37.Qd3 Qa2 38.Rd1 Qb2 39.Qe3 Qb5 40.Qf2 Qb3 41.Qf1 Kf8 42.Rb1 Qxd5 43.Rd1 Qe6
44.Qd3 Ke7 45.Qc3 Qg6 46.Qa1 Qc2 47.Rc1 Qd3 48.Qa7 Qd5 49.Qa1 Qe6 50.Qa7 Qd7
51.Kg1 Kf8 52.Kh1 e4 53.fxe4 Qe7 54.Qa2 Qxe4 55.Rf1+ Bf4 56.Qf2 g5 57.Kg1 Kf7
58.Re1 Qd5 59.Qe2 Be5 60.Kh1 Qc6 61.h4 Bf6 62.hxg5 hxg5 63.Qh5+ Kg7 64.Qh3 Qa4
65.Rc1 Be5 66.Rf1 Qc6 67.Rb1 Qd6 68.Qh5 Qf6 69.Qh3 Be4 70.Rd1 Kg6 71.Qc8 Bd5
72.Qh3 Qf4 73.Kg1 Bd4+ 74.Kh1 Bxb6 75.Qd3+ Kg7 76.Qc3+ Kf7 77.Qh3 Bc7 78.Qh7+
Ke6 79.Qh6+ Ke7 80.Qg7+ Bf7 81.Re1+ Kd7 82.Qh7 g4 83.Qh4 Kc6 84.Qh7 Bd5 85.Qg6+
Kc5 86.Qc2+ Bc4 87.Qh7 Kd4 88.Rd1+ Kc3 89.Qh4 Bd3 90.Qh5 Be5 0-1

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

See also

• 14th Computer Olympiad
• Advances in Computer Games 12

Publications

• Richard Pijl (2009). The 17th World Computer-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2
• Hans van der Zijden (2009). The Open Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 » 14th Computer Olympiad - Chess
• Eric Hallsworth (2009). The 2009 World Computer Chess Championships. Selective Search 143, pp. 21, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• Eric Hallsworth (2009). The 2009 World Computer Chess Championships. Selective Search 144, pp. 17, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
• Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, amazon

Chapter 18: 2009: Rybka Rolls Through Opposition at 17th WCCC

Forum Posts

• Rybka @ Pamplona 17th ICGA World Computer Chess Championship by Vasik Rajlich from Rybka Forum, May 17, 2009

External Links

• 17th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
• Rybka wins 17th World Computer Chess Championship, ChessBase News, May 19, 2009
• Report from the 17th World Computer Chess Championshipand the 14th Computer Olympiad in Pamplona from Rybka - for the serious chess player
• Computerschach-WM in Pamplona by Johannes Zwanzger from Schachclub Forchheim, May 19, 2009 (German)

References

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