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The '''Sixth World Computer Chess Championship''' took place from May 28 to 31, [[Timeline#1989|1989]], in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Conference_Centre Edmonton Convention Centre], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton Edmonton], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta Alberta], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada Canada]. It was held in conjunction with ''Congress '89'' <ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/prospect-for-the-90s-cips-congress-89-proceedings-edmonton-alberta-may-29-june-2-1989/oclc/21039544 Prospect for the 90's : CIPS Congress '89 : proceedings : Edmonton, Alberta, May 29-June 2, 1989]</ref> of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Information_Processing_Society Canadian Information Processing Society] (CIPS), and was sponsored by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Government_Telephones Alberta Government Telephones] (AGT) <ref>[[Garth Courtois Jr.]] ('''1989'''). ''The Sixth World Computer-Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#12_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]]</ref>.
[[Tony Marsland|Tony Marsland's]] hard work in obtaining funds and recruiting attendees was apparent in the impressive chess expertise available to comment on the event - he further organized the [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|New Directions in Game-Tree Search]] two-day workshop during the tournament. 24 teams from 9 nations participated. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Chess_Championship Canadian Chess Champion] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Spraggett Kevin Spraggett] was present commentating on the games along with [[David Levy]], [[Michael Valvo|Mike Valvo]], [[Danny Kopec]], [[Julio Kaplan]] and [[David Slate]]. A large crowd of about 300 were on site during most of the games <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/3d30a29100dc3fd2/afdb2d7f712f1be2 World Computer Chess Championship (the human side)] by [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], June 04, 1989</ref> . [[Deep Thought]] won with a perfect score, winning all five games - runner up was [[BeBeBebe]].
=Final Standing=
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* SOS: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_system Sum of Opponent Scores]
* SoDOS: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadtl_score Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores]
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=Photos=
==Session 1==
The first session was disclosed by [[John McCarthy]] mentioning the often cited metaphor of computer chess as the [[Artificial Intelligence#McCarthy|Drosophila]] of [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] research, and attributed it to [[Alexander Kronrod]] <ref>[[James Gillogly]] ('''1989'''). ''New Directions in Game-Tree Search - First Workshop Session''. [[ICGA Journal#12_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]]</ref> :
* [[Hans Berliner]] ('''1989'''). ''What is still needed in Game Tree Search''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Robert Levinson]] ('''1989'''). ''A Self-Learning, Pattern-Oriented Chess Program''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[James Gillogly]] ('''1989'''). ''Transposition Table Collisions''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Harry Nelson]] ('''1989'''). ''Some Observations about Hash Tables in Cray Blitz''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Ingo Althöfer]] ('''1989'''). ''A Summary of some Results in Theoretical Game Tree Search and the Dreihirn-Experiment''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Anders Kierulf]], [[Keh-Hsun Chen|Ken Chen]], [[Jürg Nievergelt]] ('''1989'''). ''Smart Game Board and Go Explorer: A Case Study in Software and Knowledge Engineering''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Kiyoshi Shirayanagi]] ('''1989'''). ''A New Approach to Programming Go - Knowledge Representation and its Refinement in Go Programs''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Lynn Sutherland]] ('''1989'''). ''Load Balancing Search Problems on General-Purpose Multi-Computers''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Ed Northam]], [[David Podber]], [[Yehya Fouda]] ('''1989'''). ''The Role of Connectivity in Chess''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]], [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_24_C.pdf pdf]* [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1989'''). ''A Theorem Proving Program that Looks Like a Chess Program''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1989'''). ''Perspectives on Falling from Grace''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/publications/ai_publications/grace.pdf pdf]
==Session 2==
The second day began with opening remarks by [[Claude Shannon]], who recalled that in the 40s relays rather than transistors were the state of the art. He still feft that games were an excellent test bed for understanding intelligence, and predicted that within the next 25 years computers would outplay the best humans at chess <ref>[[Murray Campbell]] ('''1989'''). ''New Directions in Game-Tree Search - Second Workshop Session''. [[ICGA Journal#12_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]]</ref> :
* [[Donald Michie]] ('''1989'''). ''Automating the Discovery of Structure in Time-Varying Data''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Bob Herschberg]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Patrick Schoo]] ('''1989'''). ''Verifying and Codifying Strategies in a Chess Endgame''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[David Levy]] ('''1989'''). ''Evaluation Functions from Chess Endgame Databases''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Hermann Kaindl]], [[Marcus Wagner]], [[Helmut Horacek]] ('''1989'''). ''Comparing Various Pruning Algorithms on Very Strongly Ordered Game Trees''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Ed Felten]] ('''1989'''). ''Playing Against an Imperfect Opponent''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Peter Jansen]] ('''1989'''). ''Problematic Positions and Speculative Play.'' [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]* [[Tony Marsland]] ('''1989'''). ''The Bratko-Kopec Test Revisited''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]]
=Congress '89=
'''[[World Computer Chess Championship|Up one Level]]'''
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