First GI Computer Chess Tournament

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Dortmund Old Town Hall

The First GI Computer Chess Tournament took place from October 17-20, 1975 in Dortmund Old Town Hall. It was the very first German computer chess tournament, and was hosted by Gesellschaft für Informatik (abbreviated as "GI" and translated as "German Informatics Society") , organized by Reinhard Zumkeller from the University of Dortmund. Eight programs played a three rounds swiss system. The award ceremony took place at Dortmunder Actien Brauerei .

Final Standing

#	Name	CC	1	2	3	P	SOS	Playoff
1	Tell	CH	6b1	3w1	2b½	2½	5½	2w1
2	Daja	DE	7b1	4b1	1w½	2½	5	1b0
3	Schach MV 5,6	DE	5w1	1b0	6w1	2	5
4	Orwell III	DE	8b1	2w0	5w½	1½	4
5	Fischer/Schneider	DE	3b0	8w1	4b½	1½	3½
6	Samiel	DE	1w0	7w1	3b0	1	5½
7	Proscha	DE	2w0	6b0	8w1	1	3½
8	Charlie	DE	4w0	5b0	7b0	0	4

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores

Participants

Name	CC	Authors	Hardware
Charlie	DE	Andreas Keil	Siemens 4004
Daja	DE	Siegfried Jahn, Ludwig Zagler	TR 440
Fischer/Schneider	DE	Kurt Fischer, Hans-Jochen Schneider	IBM 370/158
Orwell III	DE	Thomas Nitsche	UNIVAC 1106/2
Proscha	DE	Hagen Huwig, et al.	IBM 370/158
Samiel	DE	Eberhard Klein, M. Krüger	IBM 370/168
Schach MV 5,6	DE	Helmut Richter	PDP-10
Tell	CH	Johann Joss	HP 2115 (8 K)

• CC Country Codes

Playoff

A tie-break match between Tell and Daja, both with two and a half points, and drawing each other just before in round three, finally decided the tournament in favor to Johann Joss' program.

[Event "First GI Computer Chess Tournament"]
[Site "Dortmund"]
[Date " 1975.10.10"]
[Round "Playoff"]
[White "Tell"]
[Black "Daja"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bc5 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 Ng4 7.Bg5 Nf6 8.Bxf6 gxf6
9.Nd5 Nd4  10.Nxd4 Bxd4 11.Qg4 Kh8 12.c3 d6 13.Qf3 c6 14.Nxf6 Bc5 15.b4 b5 16.bxc5
bxc4 17.dxc4 dxc5 18.Rfd1 Qe7 19.Nh5 Be6 20.Qe2 f5 21.exf5 Rxf5 22.Ng3 Rg5 23.Ne4
Rg4 24.Rab1 Rf8  25.Nd6 Qg5 26.f3 Rgf4 27.Ne4 Qe7 28.Rb2 Kg7 29.Rbb1 Kg6 30.Rd6 Rc8
31.Qe3 Kg7 32.Qxc5 Bxc4 33.Rb2 Kh8 34.g3 Rg8 35.Kf2 Rxe4 36.fxe4 Bd3 37.Ke3 Rg6
38.Rxc6 Qxc5 39.Rxc5 Bf1 40.Rf2 Bh3 41.Rxe5 Be6 42.Ra5 Rg7 43.Rf8 Bg8 44.c4 Rd7
45.Rg5 Rg7 46.Rgf5 Rd7 47.Rc8 Rd6 48.Rf7 a6 49.e5 Rd1 50.Rb8 Rc1 51.Kd3 Re1 52.Re7
Rc1 53.e6 Re1 54.c5 Re5 55.c6 Rc5 56.c7 Rc6 57.c8R Rxc8 58.Rxc8 h6 59.Ree8 Kg7
60.Rxg8 Kf6 61.Rc6 h5 62.Rxa6 h4 63.gxh4 Ke7 64.h5 Kf6 65.h6 Ke5 66.e7 Kf4 67.e8Q
Kf5 68.Qe4# 1-0

Tournament Director

• David Levy

Publications

• Reinhard Zumkeller (1975). Erstes GI Computer-Schach-Turnier, Dortmund 1975, Bulletin, including a paper by Konrad Zuse
• Helmut Richter (1976). The first German computer chess championship at Dortmund. SIGART newsletter, Vol. 56, No. 2
• Monroe Newborn (1979). Recent Progress in Computer Chess. Advances in Computers, Vol. 18, pp. 59-117. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. Reprinted (1988) in Computer Games I (ed. David Levy), pp. 226-324, Springer
• Karsten Bauermeister (1995). Aufbruchstimmung in Deutschland. Computerschach und Spiele Heft 6, 1995 (German)

External Links

• Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
• Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
• Computerschach: Mini besiegt Maxi, October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)

References

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