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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 [[#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=
