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Campus Kenari [1]

The Fourteenth World Microcomputer Chess Championship took place from October 8 to 15, 1996, Campus Kenari [2] [3] , Gunadarma University, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Final Standing

14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1996, Jakarta INA [4] [5]

# Program CC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total SOS SoDOS G
1 Shredder DE 3b½ 15w1 12w1 9b1 6b1 7w1 4w1 2b0 5b½ 10w1 8b1 9 73 57¼ 11
2 Ferret US 15b½ 3w1 11b½ 19w1 5b1 6w½ 8b1 1w1 4b½ 7w½ 9b1 72½ 56¾ 11
3 Nimzo-3 AT 1w½ 2b0 15b½ 14w1 19b½ 20w1 7b1 5w0 16b1 4w1 6b1 71½ 46¼ 11
4 Crafty US 5b0 8w1 14b1 11w1 18b1 12w1 1b0 6w1 2w½ 3b0 7b½ 7 75 44 11
5 Gunda-1 ID 4w1 10b1 6w0 17b1 2w0 9b½ 19w1 3b1 1w½ 8b0 13w1 7 73½ 44½ 11
6 Virtual Chess FR 14b1 7w1 5b1 18b1 1w0 2b½ 10w1 4b0 8w½ 9b½ 3w0 75½ 41½ 11
7 DarkThought DE 16w1 6b0 10w1 25b1 9w1 1b0 3w0 12b½ 20w1 2b½ 4w½ 71 37¼ 11
8 Fritz NL 10w0 4b0 16w1 27b1 20w1 11b1 2w0 9b1 6b½ 5w1 1w0 67½ 33¾ 11
9 Zeus 3.1 ES 13b1 23w1 19b1 1w0 7b0 5w½ 18b1 8w0 11b1 6w½ 2w0 6 71 33¾ 11
10 Gandalf DK 8b1 5w0 7b0 15w1 13b1 18w1 6b0 11w0 12w1 1b0 23b1 6 69 34 11
11 Comet DE 22w1 12b½ 2w½ 4b0 17w1 8w0 14b1 10b1 9w0 13b0 19w1 6 67 34¼ 11
12 Eugen ES bye 11w½ 1b0 13w½ 25b1 4b0 17w1 7w½ 10b0 20b1 16w½ 6 60½ 26½ 10
13 Francesca GB 9w0 22b1 20w½ 12b½ 10w0 14w½ 21b½ 25b1 23w1 11w1 5b0 6 60 30 11
14 Centaur RU 6w0 16b1 4w0 3b0 27w1 13b½ 11w0 26b½ bye 22w1 21b1 6 53 21 10
15 Schach 3.0 DE 2w½ 1b0 3w½ 10b0 21b½ 27w1 22w½ 20b0 26w1 24b1 17w½ 60½ 25 11
16 IsiChess DE 7b0 14w0 8b0 bye 22w1 21w½ 23b1 19b1 3w0 17b½ 12b½ 57 22¼ 10
17 InterChess DE 19b0 bye 26w1 5w0 11b0 25w1 12b0 21w½ 24b1 16w½ 15b½ 52½ 20½ 10
18 Woodpusher GB 24w1 26b1 21b1 6w0 4w0 10b0 9w0 22b½ 19w0 27b1 bye 49½ 16¾ 10
19 BreakThrough DE 17w1 25b1 9w0 2b0 3w½ 24b1 5b0 16w0 18b1 21w½ 11b0 5 65 25¾ 11
20 Heureka DE 23b0 27w1 13b½ 21w1 8b0 3b0 24w1 15w1 7b0 12w0 25b½ 5 57 21 11
21 Pandix HU 26w½ 24b1 18w0 20b0 15w½ 16b½ 13w½ 17b½ 25w1 19b½ 14w0 5 56½ 24¼ 11
22 Diogenes DE 11b0 13w0 24b½ 23w½ 16b0 bye 15b½ 18w½ 27w1 14b0 26w½ 48½ 13 10
23 Patzer DE 20w1 9b0 25w0 22b½ 24w0 26b1 16w0 27b1 13b0 bye 10w0 46½ 12¼ 10
24 The Turk IS 18b0 21w0 22w½ 26b1 23b1 19w0 20b0 bye 17w0 15w0 27b1 45½ 11¾ 10
25 Nightmare D DE 27b1 19w0 23b1 7w0 12w0 17b0 bye 13w0 21b0 26b½ 20w½ 4 48½ 10 10
26 XXXX DE 21b½ 18w0 17b0 24w0 bye 23w0 27b1 14w½ 15b0 25w½ 22b½ 4 46 10¾ 10
27 Ananse CH 25w0 20b0 bye 8w0 14b0 15b0 26w0 23w0 22b0 18w0 24w0 1 50 0 10

Participants

14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1996, Jakarta INA [6]

Program CC Authors Operators Processor MHz
Ananse CH Walter Bannerman Pentium 133
BreakThrough DE Werner Koch Pentium 133
Centaur RU Victor Vikhrev, Alexey Manjakhin Pentium 133
Comet DE Ulrich Türke Wolfgang Hettler [7] Pentium 133
Crafty US Robert Hyatt Tom Crain [8] [9] Pentium Pro 200
DarkThought DE Ernst A. Heinz, Markus Gille, Peter Gillgasch DEC Alpha 433
Diogenes DE Jörg Burwitz Karsten Bauermeister Pentium 133
Eugen ES Eugenio Castillo Jiménez Pentium 133
Ferret US Bruce Moreland Pentium Pro 200
Francesca GB Tom King Pentium 133
Fritz NL Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist Pentium 200
Gandalf DK Steen Suurballe, Dan Wulff Pentium 133
Gunda-1 ID Suryadi Harmanto [10] Dede Liu, Andi Suhendra Pentium Pro 200
Heureka DE Gerold Fischer Pentium 133
InterChess DE Michael Borgstädt [11] [12] [13] Wolfgang Traudes Pentium 133
IsiChess DE Gerd Isenberg Pentium 133
Nightmare D DE Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski Pentium 166
Nimzo-3 AT Chrilly Donninger Helmut Weigel Pentium Pro 224
Pandix HU Gyula Horváth Devry Iskandar Pentium 133
Patzer DE Roland Pfister Pentium 133
Schach 3.0 DE Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair Monika Mayer Pentium 133
Shredder DE Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Pentium Pro 200
The Turk IS Yngvi Björnsson, Andreas Junghanns Pentium 133
Virtual Chess FR Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill Pascal Tang Pentium 166
Woodpusher GB John Hamlen Pentium 133
XXXX DE Martin Zentner Pentium 133
Zeus 3.1 ES Gerardo Castaño Recio Pentium 133

Photos

Wmccc1996opening.jpg

Group Photo, Back row from left: Tom King, Gerold Fischer, Steen Suurballe, Jaap van den Herik
Wolfgang Traudes, Wardiman Djojonegoro, Gerd Isenberg, E. S. Margianti, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen,
Roland Pfister, Monika Mayer, Martin Zentner, Front row: Markus Gille, Werner Koch, Helmut Weigel,
Reinhold Gellner, John Hamlen, Pascal Tang, Gerardo Castaño Recio [14]

Photos & Games

Round 10

Jakarta96InterIsi.jpg

InterChess - IsiChess [15], Gerd Isenberg and Wolfgang Traudes

[Event "WMCCC 1996"]
[Site "Jakarta, Indonesia"]
[Date "1996.10.??"]
[Round "10"]
[White "InterChess"]
[Black "IsiChess 2.5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.Nf3 c5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5 4.O-O Nc6 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 e6 7.c4 Bc5 8.Nxc6 bxc6
9.Qc2 Be7 10.Rd1 O-O 11.e4 Bb7 12.Nc3 Qc8 13.Qb3 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.Bxe4 f5
16.Bg2 e5 17.Re1 Bf6 18.Be3 Ba6 19.Rad1 e4 20.Bc5 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Qxd8 22.Qa4 Bb7
23.Rd1 Qc7 24.Bd4 Bxd4 25.Rxd4 Bc8 26.Qa3 Be6 27.b3 c5 28.Rd1 Bf7 29.Qc1 Re8
30.Bh3 g6 31.Qd2 Qb6 32.Qe3 a5 33.g4 fxg4 34.Bxg4 a4 35.Re1 axb3 36.axb3 h6
37.Bd1 g5 38.Bc2 Bg6 39.h4 Qe6 40.Bd1 Qe5 41.hxg5 hxg5 42.Bf3 Kf7 43.Bg2 Kf6
44.f3 Bh5 45.fxe4 Ke7 46.Rf1 Bg4 47.Qf2 Be6 48.Rd1 Ra8 49.Bf1 Rh8 50.Rd3 Rh4
51.Re3 Bd7 52.Bg2 Qh2+ 53.Kf1 Qe5 54.Qe1 Rf4+ 55.Kg1 Bc6 56.Qd2 Rg4 57.Qd1 Rh4
58.Qe2 Qh2+ 59.Kf1 Rf4+ 60.Rf3 Bxe4 61.Rxf4 Qxf4+ 62.Kg1 Qc1+ 63.Kh2 Qf4+
64.Kg1 Qc1+ 65.Kh2 1/2-1/2

Round 11

Wmccc1996jak39.jpg

Patzer - Gandalf [16], Steen Suurballe and Roland Pfister [17],

[Event "WMCCC 1996"]
[Site "Jakarta, Indonesia"]
[Date "1996.10.??"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Patzer"]
[Black "Gandalf X"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 d5 5.e3 c5 6.dxc5 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 h6 8.Bxf6 Qxf6
9.Qd4 e5 10.Qxd5 O-O 11.Qd6 Be6 12.Qc7 Na6 13.Qxb7 Nxc5 14.Qb4 e4 15.Rc1 Qg5
16.Nh3 Bxh3 17.gxh3 a5 18.Qb1 Rfc8 19.Rd1 a4 20.Rd4 Rab8 21.Qc1 Rb6 22.Rd5 Qg6
23.Kd2 Qf6 24.Be2 Rcb8 25.Rxc5 Rb2+ 26.Kd1 Qxf2 27.Re1 Rb1 28.Rc8+ Kh7 29.Rxb8
Rxc1+ 30.Kxc1 Qxe1+ 31.Bd1 Qxe3+ 32.Kb2 a3+ 33.Kb3 Qc1 34.Rd8 Qb2+ 35.Ka4 Qxa2
36.Bb3 Qb2 37.Re8 a2 38.Bxa2 Qxa2+ 39.Kb5 f5 40.h4 f4 41.Kb4 0-1

Prologue

The 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Jakarta [18] was a disputed championship [19] . Due to Indonesia's actions in East Timor [20] and elsewhere, reigning World Microcomputer Champion Marty Hirsch with MChess didn't felt comfortable to come to Jakarta to defend his title [21] .

The de facto ban of the Junior team [22] [23] [24] was another main issue, which caused potential participants evince solidarity with the Junior team - to boycott the championship or withdrawal after already registered. For the one or the other honorable reason Richard Lang, Ed Schröder, Chris Whittington, Vincent Diepeveen, Walter Ravenek [25] and others did not participate with their programs. Other programmers voted for not mixing political issues with sports or were more or less conform with the ICCA point of view.

The field of participants was dominated by 12 German entries, but only one Dutch, which was the program Fritz of the German ChessBase company, by Frans Morsch from The Netherlands and Mathias Feist from Germany. This matter of fact may be caused by Appeal to authority and Netherlands former relations to Indonesia and pronounced sensibility about the Suharto regime and symptoms of Antisemitism associated by the de facto ban of the Junior team due to their nationality [26] . The ICCA felt obligated to fulfill the contract they made with the main sponsor and host, and claimed financial suicide to turn it down [27] .

On the Ground

Jakarta Ball Room in former Dai-Ichi [28]

The tournament circumstances were kind of tremendous: The subsidized accommodation in the class hotel Dai-Ichi (now Aston Atrium [29] ) - where also the opening ceremony with Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture, Wardiman Djojonegoro [30] and Rector of the Gunadarma University, Prof. E. S. Margianti [31] , took place - was quite luxurious. All participants received Batik shirts as gift and had personal hosts from the university, not to mention the sponsored flights for a (limited) number of participants, the excursion to Bogor, the excellent food between rounds, and closing dinner and whatever else. A minor drawback was the organized bus transfer between the hotel and playing hall. While the buildings, specially the playing hall was well air-conditioned, the bus was not and sauna like. With the consequence that most participants catches a cold from the second day. During the tournament there was a huge local press and TV-coverage. For security, police or military staff was aboard at the entrance of the tournament hall in the modern and comfortable university building where the tournament took place. The price award ceremony was accomplished by ICCA President Tony Marsland, Rector Prof. E. S. Margianti, and Minister of Public Housing, Akbar Tanjung.

Experience is a Hard Teacher

Gunda-1 and Crafty

A point of criticism and a negative precedence was the concession of the ICCA to let the host's program Gunda-1 of the Gunadarma University participate. It was a clone of Crafty, which also participated as well [32] [33]. On the players meeting it was agreed, that Crafty had to play Gunda-1 in the first round as proposed by the TD - to avoid possible later issues if it turned out, both programs may fight for the title. Also, no other program should play both. Gunda-1 won that game against Crafty and finally both programs finished 4th (Crafty) and 5th. Crafty had a strong tournament and won some nice games with 4. Bc4 instead of 4. Ba4 in the Ruy Lopez [34], which apparently threw most opponents out of book.

Operators

Other issues were related to unexperienced operators, not member of the programmers team, which caused Tournament Director Jaap van den Herik to do a lot of hard work and decisions almost each round. Another problem was the missing ability to produce valid PGN by various programs. The most time consuming case was the Heureka versus Schach 3.0 game in round 8, where around move 40 one got aware the external and internal board position in Schach 3.0 was divergent due to an operator error a few moves before (unfortunately the chess boards had no coordinates). On the other side, due to an en passant capture, Heureka was not able to take back the moves or even to start from any arbitrary position, but had to reenter the whole game - which was a bit error-prone due to interface issues and had to be done at least twice until the game could continue.

Amateurs vs. Professionals

The distinction between professionals and amateurs was justified to encourage hobbyists in participation and to reflect the commercial value of the title for the professional programmers likely associated with companies. However, after the "golden age" of dedicated chess computers the distinction became more difficult and the rule applied by the ICCA was a kind of ambivalent due to the definition of a relative income of 25 per cent from computer chess.

Engines like Nimzo and IsiChess were already commercial. Their authors affirmed their relative and absolute low income from selling their programs, which was generously accepted by the ICCA officials. Other possibly semi professional authors, who observed a below 25 per cent income, were considered full professionals by the ICCA. That was true for Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill with Virtual Chess [35] , and Chris Whittington with Chess System Tal and associated with Oxford Softworks, who developed and traded not only chess programs but other strategic games as well.


Quotes from Experience is a Hard Teacher by ICCA President Tony Marsland [36] :

In the past, applicants specified their program's category, competing for the Manufacturer's Title, the Professional Title or the Amateur Title. Now with sponsorship money and the provision of travel grants to some participants, times are changing. Naturally, the professionals had not been eligible for support (although it was after all their fees that were partly providing the grants), nor could the ICCA give financial incentives to professionals, since this might be construed as an endorsement of their product!
These conditions have led to an increasing number of participants requesting entry into the competition as amateurs. But the question of who is an amateur and who is a professional has no clear answer. For some amateurs there is unanimous agreement. Similarly, there is virtual unanimity that companies engaged in writing chess programs for sale should have their entries regarded as professional, even for a new program not yet marketed. However, there are many circumstances lying in a grey area between. For example: amateurs who offered a previous program for sale, but obtained little income from it. Or a programmer who works for a company making commercial chess software, but makes a living developing accounting packages. People are likely to have differing opinions about these cases. In the end the decision lies with the group charged with assessing the qualifications of the applicants. As with similar situations elsewhere the decision of the reviewers must be final and must be accepted with good grace. Basically the applicant makes the case and the reviewers give a judgement. 

Shredder's First Title

The tournament was an 11 round accelerated swiss system [37] , the first three rounds were paired from two disjoint groups. The 14th WMCCC was the first victory of Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder, with half a point ahead of Bruce Moreland's Ferret. Shredder lost against the unbeaten Ferret in round 8, but Ferret made too many draws and got unlucky second place finisher. Ferret's win of the Blitz Title was a slight compensation though. Virtual Chess as sixth, won the title of the Professional World Microcomputer Chess Champion after a playoff against Fritz, since the leading five programs were all (still) amateurs.

Publications

Forum Posts

External Links

References

  1. UG Knowledge Based Portal - Lokasi Universitas Gunadarma
  2. Universitas Gunadarma - About - Google+
  3. Visitasi Akreditasi S3 Ekonomi | Rumah Pena
  4. 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
  5. 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Oct. 1996, Jakarta INA, CSVN site
  6. Ratih Dewanti (1996). Report on the 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
  7. Wolfgang Hettler holt Silber beim BSV-Blitz, May 28, 2011 (German)
  8. Amazon.com: Schlechter's chess games by Tom Crain
  9. Re: Is Crafty development hardware-oriented? by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, February 17, 1999
  10. Gunadarma University Expert Team, being Haryanto, M. Shofwan A, Avinanta Tarigan, Adang Suhendra, Adrian, Tubagus Maulana, and Windiaprana, led by Suryadi Harmanto
  11. along with Grabusic, see Ratih Dewanti (1996). Report on the 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
  12. Thorsten about Jakarta 2 by Dirk Frickenschmidt, rgcc, October 10, 1996
  13. Re: WMCCC by Bruce Moreland, CCC, September 25, 1997
  14. Image clipped from opening ceremony group photo by B. Sumarwoto SE, in Tony Marsland (1996). Experience is a Hard Teacher. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 267
  15. Jakarta 1996 - Chess - Round 10 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)
  16. Jakarta 1996 - Chess - Round 11 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
  17. Steen Suurballe Homepage
  18. 1996 World Microcomputer Chess Championship by Tony Marsland, rgcc, May 22, 1996
  19. World Micro Championship - Jakarta by Chris Whittington, rgcc, September 1, 1996
  20. East Timor: Acceptable Slaughters by Joe Nunes
  21. WMCCC Jakarta by Chris Whittington, rgcc, August 7, 1996, see post 22 by Peter Schreiner
  22. WORLD MICROCOMPUTER CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 1996 by Tony Marsland, rgcc, September 12, 1996
  23. Jakarta Jokes (not funny at all) by Don Fong, rgcc, September 15, 1996
  24. WMCCC Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 8, 1996, see post 40 by Amir Ban, Junior will not be playing in the WMCCC
  25. Don and Jakarta by Ed Schröder, rgcc, September 12, 1996, see post 5 by Walter Ravenek, September 17, 1996
  26. The Board of the ICCA (1996). The Junior Chess Program and the 1996 World Microcomputer Chess Championship in Jakarta. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
  27. ICCA Press Release: 14th WMCCC Jakarta by Bruce Moreland, rgcc, September 15, 1996
  28. Aston Atrium Jakarta Hotel
  29. Aston Atrium Jakarta Hotel
  30. Prof. Dr. Ing. Wardiman Djojonegoro
  31. Academy news — Visit of Gunadarma University delegation
  32. WMCCC Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 8, 1996
  33. Re: FIDE Ethics Commission ruling on ICGA/Rybka complaint by Robert Hyatt, CCC, May 04, 2015
  34. Re: The Crafty variation of the Ruy Lopez by Robert Hyatt, CCC, August 12, 2000
  35. WMCCC standings after round 10 by Hornets, rgcc, October 12, 1996, see post 16 by Marc-François Baudot, October 15, 1996
  36. Tony Marsland (1996). Experience is a Hard Teacher. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
  37. WMCCC / Jakarta information by Robert Hyatt, rgcc, October 10, 1996
  38. Comments on ICCAJ v.19 n.4 by Steven Edwards, rgcc, January 12, 1997

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