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Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, CUHK [1]

The Eighth World Computer Chess Championship took place from May 25-30, 1995, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong - China.

Fritz on a 90 MHz P5 won the title after a play-off versus Star Socrates, after already winning again Deep Blue Prototype in round five.

Final Standing

8th World Computer Chess Championship 1995, Shatin [2] [3]

# Program CC R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Total SOS SoDOS Play-off
1 Fritz NL 11b0 16w1 19b1 14w1 3b1 4 12 2b1
2 Star Socrates US 3b0 14w1 23b1 9w1 8b1 4 12½ 9 1w0
3 Deep Blue Prototype US 2w1 8b1 12w1 6b½ 1w0 16½ 11
4 Frenchess FR 6w½ 7b0 17b1 12w1 14b1 12½ 8
5 Junior IL 8b0 15w½ 24b1 18w1 11b1 10½
6 WChess US 4b½ 10w1 11w½ 3w½ 7b½ 3 15½
7 Chess Genius GB 10b½ 4w1 9b½ 11w½ 6w½ 3 15
8 HiTech US 5w1 3w0 16b1 15b1 2w0 3 15
9 Rebel NL 13w1 11b½ 7w½ 2b0 15w1 3 14
10 Zugzwang DE 7w½ 6b0 22b½ 16w1 17w1 3 11½
11 Schach 3.0 DE 1w1 9w½ 6b½ 7b½ 5w0 16½
12 Cheiron DE 22b1 24w1 3b0 4b0 13w½ 12
13 Virtua Chess FR 9b0 17w1 14b0 23w1 12b½ 10½
14 DarkThought DE 18w1 2b0 13w1 1b0 4w0 2 16
15 SOS DE 19b1 5b½ 18w½ 8w0 9b0 2 13½
16 Ferret US 20w1 1b0 8w0 10b0 21w1 2 13½
17 Zeus 3.0 ES 21w1 13b0 4w0 19w1 10b0 2 12½
18 Pandix HU 14b0 21w1 15b½ 5b0 20w½ 2 11
19 Phoenix CA 15w0 20b1 1w0 17b0 23w1 2 11 3
20 Ulysses DE 16b0 19w0 21b½ 24w1 18b½ 2
21 Nightmare DE 17b0 18b0 20w½ 22w1 16b0
22 Gandalf DK 12w0 23b½ 10w½ 21b0 24w½ 9
23 LChess NL 24b½ 22w½ 2w0 13b0 19b0 1 11
24 Woodpusher GB 23w½ 12b0 5w0 20b0 22b½ 1 10½

Participants

8th World Computer Chess Championship 1995, Shatin [4]

Program CC Authors Hardware
Cheiron DE Ulf Lorenz Pentium 90 MHz
Chess Genius GB Richard Lang Pentium 90 MHz
DarkThought DE Ernst A. Heinz, Peter Gillgasch, Markus Gille DEC Alpha
Deep Blue Prototype US Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane IBM RS/6000 and 14 chess engine processors
Ferret US Bruce Moreland Pentium 90 MHz
Frenchess FR Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill,
Jean-Luc Seret, Michel Gondran
Cray T3D 128 DEC Alpha 21064 [5]
Fritz NL Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist, Cock de Gorter Pentium 90 MHz
Gandalf DK Steen Suurballe Pentium 90 MHz
HiTech US Hans Berliner, Chris McConnell Sun-4, special purpose hardware
Junior IL Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky Pentium 90 MHz
LChess NL Lex Loep Pentium 90 MHz
Nightmare DE Reinhold Gellner, Gaby von Rekowski Pentium 90 MHz
Pandix HU Gyula Horváth, Zsuzsa Horváth, Csaba Szûts Pentium 90 MHz
Phoenix CA Jonathan Schaeffer HP 9000/720
Rebel NL Ed Schröder Pentium 90 MHz
Schach 3.0 DE Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair Pentium 90 MHz
SOS DE Rudolf Huber Pentium 90 MHz
Star Socrates US Don Dailey, Chris Joerg, Bradley Kuszmaul,
Charles Leiserson, Robert Blumofe, Matteo Frigo,
Larry Kaufman, Keith H. Randall, Rolf Riesen, Yuli Zhou
1824 node (2 x i860) Intel Paragon,
Sandia National Laboratories
Ulysses DE Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann SPARCstation 10 60MHz
Virtua Chess FR Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill Pentium 90 MHz
WChess US David Kittinger, James Parker [6] Pentium 120 MHz
Woodpusher GB John Hamlen Pentium 90 MHz
Zeus 3.0 ES Gerardo Castaño Recio Pentium 90 MHz
Zugzwang DE Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz GC-Powerplus, 96 x PowerPC 601

Photos & Games

Deep Blue Prototype - Fritz 0-1

[7]

[Event "WCCC 1995"]
[Site "Chinese University HKG"]
[Date "1995.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Deep Blue Prototype"]
[Black "Fritz"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5
9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.Bd3 Be6 12.Qh5 f4 13.O-O Rg8 14.Kh1 Rg6 15.Qd1 Rc8
16.c4 Qh4 17.g3 Qh3 18.Qd2 f3 19.Rg1 Rh6 20.Qxh6 Qxh6 21.cxb5 Bxd5 22.exd5
Nb4 23.Bf5 Rc5 24.bxa6 Nxa6 25.Nc2 Qd2 26.Ne1 Rxd5 27.Nxf3 Qxf2 28.Be4 Ra5
29.Rg2 Qe3 30.Re1 Qh6 31.Bc6+ Kd8 32.a3 f5 33.Rc2 Rc5 34.Rxc5 Nxc5 35.Rf1
Be7 36.a4 f4 37.gxf4 Qxf4 38.Rg1 Nxa4 39.b4 Qxb4 0-1

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [1]

Star Socrates - Fritz 0-1

WCCC1995Playoff.jpg

Playoff, Star Socrates - Fritz, Chris Joerg (?), Don Dailey, Frans Morsch, and Mathias Feist @ 26... Nd5 [8] [9]

[Event "WCCC 1995"]
[Site "Chinesse University HKG"]
[Date "1995.05.30"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Star Socrates"]
[Black "Fritz"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Bc5 5.Nxe5 Nxe5 6.d4 a6 7.Ba4 Nxe4 8.Qe2 Be7
9.Qxe4 Ng6 10.f4 O-O 11.Bb3 Bf6 12.Nc3 c6 13.Qd3 d5 14.Be3 b6 15.f5 Ne7 16.Rf3
c5 17.dxc5 d4 18.Rd1 Bb7 19.Bxd4 Bxf3 20.gxf3 Bxd4+ 21.Qxd4 Qxd4+ 22.Rxd4 bxc5
23.Rf4 Rac8 24.Bc4 Rc6 25.Ne4 Rd8 26.Kf2 Nd5 27.Rg4 Kf8 28.Rh4 Nf6 29.Ke3 h6
30.b3 Rd1 31.a3 Ra1 32.a4 Rd1 33.Bd3 Ke7 34.Ke2 Rg1 35.Rh3 Nd5 36.Rg3 Rh1 37.Rxg7
Rxh2+ 38.Kf1 Kf8 39.Rg3 Rh5 40.Kf2 Nb4 41.f6 Nd5 42.Rg1 Nxf6 43.Rd1 Re5 44.Nd2
Nd5 45.Nc4 Rg5 46.Be4 Nc3 47.Bxc6 Nxd1+ 48.Ke1 Nc3 49.f4 Rh5 50.Kd2 Nd5 51.Bb7
Ke7 52.Kc1 Nxf4 53.Bxa6 Rh2 54.Ne3 Ne2+ 55.Kb2 Nd4 56.Bc4 Nc6 57.Bb5 Na5 58.Nc4
Nxc4+ 59.Bxc4 f5 60.a5 Kd6 61.Kc3 h5 62.a6 Kc7 63.Be6 Rf2 64.a7 Kb7 65.Kd3 h4
66.a8=Q+ Kxa8 67.Ke3 Rxc2 68.Bxf5 Rc3+ 69.Kf2 Rxb3 70.Be4+ Ka7 71.Bd5 Rb2+
72.Kg1 h3 73.Be6 h2+ 74.Kh1 Ka6 75.Bd5 0-1

Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [2]

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