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The '''Seventh World Computer Chess Championship''' took place from November 23-27, [[Timeline#1992|1992]], at [[Technical University of Madrid|Universidad Politécnica de Madrid]] (UPM), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid Madrid], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain]. The original [[El Ajedrecista]] by [[Leonardo Torres y Quevedo]] was an exhibit in the tournament hall <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1992'''). ''The 7th World Computer-Chess Championship. Report on the Tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#15_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4]]</ref> .
The Seventh World Computer Chess Championship was a triumph for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_computing RISC] architecture - [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]] won the title with the [[TASC]] [[ChessmachineChessMachine]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChessMachine ChessMachine from Wikipedia]</ref> , with a program called [[Gideon]], a port of his [[Rebel]] program for an [[ARM2]] RISC Processor, plugged as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISA_bus ISA card] into an [[IBM PC]]. Runner up [[Zugzwang (Program)|Zugzwang]] played with a grid of 1024 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmos Inmos] T800 [[Transputer]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=54 Zugzwang's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> . With [[Kasparov Sparc]], under the patronage of [[Saitek]], [[Kathe Spracklen|Kathe]] and [[Dan Spracklen]] played their last tournament, after losing the finish against the [[Chessmachine]]ChessMachine. [[Hans Berliner|Berliner's]] [[HiTech]] used [[B*]].
=Final Standing=
|-
! 11
| style="text-align:left;" | [[HiarcsHIARCS]]
! GB
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b½
| style="text-align:center;" | ½
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
* SOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_system Sum of Opponent Scores]
* SoDOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadtl_score Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores]
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,000
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[HiarcsHIARCS]]
! GB
| [[Mark Uniacke]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 250,000
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
=Photos & Games=
=Workshop=
The last day of the tournament saw the workshop under the title ''The Impact of Computer Chess on AI Research'' moderated by [[Tony Marsland]] with following contributions <ref>[[Tony Marsland]] ('''1992'''). ''Chess and AI: Workshop Report.'' [[ICGA Journal#15_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4]]</ref> , revised versions published in 1993:
* [[Richard Greenblatt]] ('''1992'''). ''Wedgitude''. [[ICGA Journal#15_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4]] » [[WCCC 1992#Workshop|WCCC 1992 Workshop]] <ref>[[Richard Greenblatt]]: "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wedgitude Wedgitude] is not an accepted English word. It is a bit of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29 hacker] jargon, coined, I believe, by the famous hacker [[Bill Gosper]]. We say a system is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wedge wedged] if there exists a binding, a clashing deep within its bowels, that prevents progress you would otherwise expect. Wedgitude, then, by a well-known English transformation, is the state of being wedged".</ref>
* [[Shawn Benn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1993'''). ''The Bratko-Kopec Test Recalibrated.'' [[ICGA Journal#16_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3]], [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_11_C.pdf pdf] <ref>Revised version of the paper ''Comparison and Testing of Six Commercial Computer Chess Programs'', presented at the workshop by [[Tony Marsland]]</ref>
* [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Norman Treloar]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Rob Lake]] ('''1993'''). ''[http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1040 Man Versus Machine for the World Checkers Championship]''. [http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/magazine.php AI Magazine], Vol. 14, No. 2 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Tinsley#Vs._Chinook Marion Tinsley vs. Chinook - Wikipedia]</ref>
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