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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
 * 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
 * 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
 * [[FILE:bejDeepBlue.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-0-85729-340-4]]
 * 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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