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The Twelfth World Computer Chess Championship took place from July 4 to 12, 2004, in the Gonda Brain Research Center of the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, in conjunction with the 9th Computer Olympiad and the Computer and Games 2004 conference. After 11 rounds, Deep Junior was the sole winner with 9 points, followed by runner-up Shredder with 8½ and Diep with 7½.

=Final Standing= 12th World Computer Chess Championship 2004, Ramat-Gan ISR.
 * CC Country Codes
 * SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
 * SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

=Participants= 12th World Computer Chess Championship 2004, Ramat-Gan ISR
 * CC Country Codes

=Photos & Games= Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Mina Teicher pushing Crafty's king pawn Round 1: Crafty - Shredder [Event "WCCC 2004"] [Site "Ramat-Gan, Israel"] [Date "2004.07.04"] [Round "1"] [White "Crafty"] [Black "Shredder"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bxd7+ Qxd7 5. c4 Nc6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Qg4 9. Qxg4 Nxg4 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Bf4 Rb8 12. h3 g5 13. Bxg5 Rg8 14. hxg4 Rxg5 15. O-O-O Rxg4 16. g3 h6 17. Rd3 Bg7 18. b3 Kd7 19. Kd2 Rg8 20. c5 Bxc3+ 21. Kxc3 Rxe4 22. cxd6 exd6 23. Rf3 Rg7 24. Rxh6 Re5 25. Rff6 Rc5+ 26. Kb2 Rd5 27. Rf4 Ke7 28. Re4+ Kd7 29. Rf6 Rh7 30. Kc3 Rc5+ 31. Kd3 Rd5+ 32. Ke3 Ra5 33. Rd4 Re5+ 34. Kf3 Re6 35. Rf5 Kc8 36. Ra5 Kb8 37. Rb4+ Ka8 38. Rg5 Rf6+ 39. Kg2 Rh8 40. Re4 Rb8 41. Re7 a6 42. Rd7 Rb7 43. Rg8+ Rb8 44. Rxb8+ Kxb8 45. g4 d5 46. Kg3 Kc8 47. Ra7 d4 48. Rxa6 Rd6 49. Ra8+ Kd7 50. Rh8 c5 51. f3 Re6 52. Rh2 Kc6 53. Rh8 Re2 54. a4 d3 55. Rd8 d2 56. g5 Kc7 57. Rd3 Kc6 58. Rd8 Kc7 59. Rd3 Kb6 60. Rd7 Kc6 61. Rd8 1/2-1/2 Game and short analyze on Lichess.org :

=Photos= Group Photo, Back row from left: Gerd Isenberg, Johannes Zwanzger, Rémi Coulom, Eros Riccio, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Shay Bushinsky, Front row: Vincent Diepeveen, Rudolf Huber, Alejandro González Romero, John Hamlen, Frans Morsch, and Jaap van den Herik

Jaap van den Herik, Moshe Kaveh, Shay Bushinsky, Vincent Diepeveen, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Boris Alterman, Amir Ban, Nathan Netanyahu

=Tournament Director=
 * Jaap van den Herik

=See also=
 * 9th Computer Olympiad
 * CG 2004

=Publications=
 * Johannes Zwanzger (2004). The 12th Computer-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3
 * Amir Ban (2004). Deep Junior Confirms its Strength. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3
 * Omid David (2004). The 12th World Computer-Chess Championship, BNVKI, Belgium-Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 84--85, August 2004, pdf
 * Eric Hallsworth (2004). Computer World Championships 2004. Selective Search 113, pp. 29, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
 * Eric Hallsworth (2004). WCCC 2004 Report & Games. Selective Search 114, pp. 7, 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 7: 2004: Deep Junior Edges Out Shredder to Take 12th WCCC, page 97.

=Forum Posts=
 * List of participants for WCCC by Uri Blass, CCC, May 13, 2004
 * Deep Junior won the WCCC by Enrique Irazoqui, CCC, July 12, 2004
 * Junior thoughts by Amir Ban, CCC, July 12, 2004
 * WCCC04 acknowledgements by Gerd Isenberg, CCC, July 16, 2004
 * Position from Ramat-Gan by Rémi Coulom, CCC, July 16, 2004
 * Pretty move by Diep by Dann Corbit, CCC, May 11, 2009 » WCCC 2004, Fritz - Diep

=External Links= = Jerusalem Excursion= On Saturday July 10, 2004 was a guided excursion to Jerusalem :
 * Ramat-Gan 2004 (ICGA Tournaments) from the ICGA Tournament Database
 * 12th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
 * Computer Games events at Ban-Ilan University (ICGA Images)
 * Computer clash in Israel from ChessBase news, June 29, 2004
 * WCCC 02: Dutch program Diep in the lead, ChessBase news, July 05, 2004
 * WCCC 03: Junior leads, Fritz loses, ChessBase news, July 07, 2004
 * WCCC 04: Junior still in the lead, ChessBase news, July 08, 2004
 * WCCC 07: Junior leads ahead of Shredder and Fritz, ChessBase news, July 09, 2004
 * WCCC 08-9: Shredder catches up with Junior, ChessBase news, July 11, 2004
 * WCCC 08-11: Junior is computer world champion, ChessBase news, July 13, 2004
 * Shredder Computer Schach Download - Computerschach Weltmeisterschaft in Tel Aviv by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, (German), translated by Google
 * Diep derde op het WK 2004! by Vincent Diepeveen, Schaakclub Oud Zuylen Utrecht (Dutch)
 * Corriere della Sera - Israele, sfida all'ultima scacchiera: tra computer (Italian)
 * Mount of Olives from Wikipedia
 * Gethsemane from Wikipedia
 * Church of All Nations from Wikipedia
 * Church of Maria Magdalene from Wikipedia
 * Old City (Jerusalem) from Wikipedia
 * Via Dolorosa from Wikipedia
 * Church of the Holy Sepulchre from Wikipedia
 * Temple Mount from Wikipedia
 * Al-Aqsa Mosque from Wikipedia
 * Dome of the Rock from Wikipedia
 * Western Wall from Wikipedia
 * [[FILE:JerusalemICGAExcursion2004.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/icga/news/Olympiad/Olympiad2004/pictures/101_0112.html]]

=References=

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