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The Ninth World Computer Chess Championship took place from June 14 to 19, 1999, at Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany, in conjunction with the Advances in Computer Games 9 conference. The 9th WCCC was the combined 16th World Microcomputer Chess Championship for all participants playing on a microcomputer. The tournament was organized and hosted by the ICCA, the Paderborn University and the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum.

The championship was quite thrilling. After six of seven rounds reigning World Computer Champion Fritz was the sole leader with 5/6. Shredder, Ferret and Junior were following with 4½ and the last round was a real showdown, since Ferret had to play Fritz while Shredder had to play Junior respectively. Ferret and Shredder won their games and were tied for the first place. Shredder had more resistance points, so that Ferret was obligated to win the play-off ^[1] . After a thrilling game, which ended in a draw, Shredder was the lucky winner of both titles simultaneously.

Final Standing

9th World Computer Chess Championship, 1999, Paderborn GER (combined 16.WMCCC) ^[2]

#	Program	CC	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	P	SOS	SoDOS	Play-off
1	Shredder	DE	30w1	3b1	7w1	8b½	10w½	2b½	5w1	5½	29	22	½
2	Ferret	US	20b1	14w1	10b0	24w1	12b1	1w½	3w1	5½	28	21¼	½
3	Fritz	NL	27b1	1w0	26b1	13w1	5b1	10w1	2b0	5	27½	16½
4	CilkChess	US	21w1	24b1	5b0	12w½	11b1	6w½	10b1	5	26½	17¾
5	Junior	IL	15w1	6b1	4w1	10b½	3w0	8w1	1b0	4½	32½	20
6	DarkThought	DE	12b1	5w0	21b1	11w½	16b1	4b½	7w½	4½	28½	17¼
7	Rebel	NL	25b1	11w1	1b0	18w1	8b0	13w1	6b½	4½	28	15¾
8	Nimzo	AT	26b½	22w1	16b1	1w½	7w1	5b0	9w½	4½	27½	17
9	Chess Tiger	FR	10b0	13w0	29b1	22w1	14b1	19w1	8b½	4½	23½	13¼
10	HIARCS	GB	9w1	17b1	2w1	5w½	1b½	3b0	4w0	4	33½	18½
11	LambChop	NZ	18w1	7b0	15w1	6b½	4w0	24b1	16w½	4	27	13½
12	Francesca	GB	6w0	28b1	17w1	4b½	2w0	16w½	20b1	4	26½	12¼
13	Virtual Chess X	FR	24w0	9b1	19w1	3b0	26w1	7b0	18w1	4	24½	12½
14	GromitChess	DE	28w1	2b0	18w0	23b1	9w0	27w1	25b1	4	22	9
15	Eugen	ES	05b0	29w1	11b0	21w1	24b½	20w½	19b1	4	21	9¾
16	Zugzwang	DE	19w½	23b1	8w0	17b1	6w0	12b½	11b½	3½	26½	12
17	MChess	US	29b1	10w0	12b0	16w0	25b½	26w1	24w1	3½	19½	6¾
18	P.ConNerS	DE	11b0	20w1	14b1	7b0	19w0	21w1	13b0	3	25½	10
19	IsiChess	DE	16b½	26w½	13b0	25w1	18b1	9b0	15w0	3	23½	8¼
20	Diep	NL	2w0	18b0	30w½	28b1	22w1	15b½	12w0	3	22	7
21	Patzer	DE	4b0	27w1	6w0	15b0	30w1	18b0	29w1	3	20½	4
22	Mini	US	23w½	8b0	28w½	9b0	20b0	30w1	27b1	3	19½	5¼
23	Now	US	22b½	16w0	27b0	14w0	28w½	29b1	26b1	3	17	5¼
24	SOS	DE	13b1	4w0	25b1	2b0	15w½	11w0	17b0	2½	28½	8½
25	Arthur	NL	7w0	30b1	24w0	19b0	17w½	28b1	14w0	2½	20	4¼
26	Ikarus	DE	8w½	19b½	3w0	27w1	13b0	17b0	23w0	2	25	5¾
27	Centaur	RU	3w0	21b0	23w1	26b0	29w1	14b0	22w0	2	21	4
28	Ruy Lopez	ES	14b0	12w0	22b½	20w0	23b½	25w0	30b½	1½	20½	3½
29	XXXX2	DE	17w0	15b0	09w0	30b1	27b0	23w0	21b0	1	21	1
30	Neurologic	DE	1b0	25w0	20b½	29w0	21b0	22b0	28w½	1	19½	2¼

CC Country Codes
SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores (excluding playoff)
SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores (excluding playoff)

Participants

9th World Computer Chess Championship, 1999, Paderborn GER (combined 16.WMCCC) ^[3]

Program	CC	Authors	Hardware	MHz
Arthur	NL	Walter Ravenek	Macintosh G3	420
Centaur	RU	Victor Vikhrev, Alexey Manjakhin	Intel Pentium II	450
Chess Tiger	FR	Christophe Théron	AMD K6-3	600
CilkChess	US	Reid Barton, Don Beal, Don Dailey, Matteo Frigo, Charles Leiserson, Phil Lisiecki, Ryan Porter, Harald Prokop, Aske Plaat	240 x MIPS	250
DarkThought	DE	Ernst A. Heinz, Markus Gille	DEC Alpha 21264	500
Diep	NL	Vincent Diepeveen	4 x Intel Xeon, Intel Pentium II ^[4]	400 450
Eugen	ES	Eugenio Castillo Jiménez	Intel Pentium II	450
Ferret	US	Bruce Moreland	4 x Intel Xeon	450
Francesca	GB	Tom King	Intel Pentium II	450
Fritz	NL	Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist	4 x Intel Xeon	500
GromitChess	DE	Frank Schneider, Kai Skibbe	Intel Pentium II	450
HIARCS	GB	Mark Uniacke, Eric Hallsworth, Erdogan Günes	Intel Pentium III	550
Ikarus	DE	Munjong Kolss, Muntsin Kolss	Intel Pentium II	450
IsiChess	DE	Gerd Isenberg	Intel Pentium II	450
Junior	IL	Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky	4 x Intel Xeon	500
LambChop	NZ	Peter McKenzie	Intel Pentium II	450
MChess	US	Marty Hirsch, Peter Schreiner	Intel Pentium III	500
Mini	US	Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman	Intel Pentium II	400
Neurologic	DE	Jochen Peussner	Intel Pentium II	450
Nimzo	AT	Chrilly Donninger	Intel Pentium III	600
Now	US	Mark Lefler	Intel Pentium II	450
Patzer	DE	Roland Pfister	Intel Pentium II	450
P.ConNerS	DE	Ulf Lorenz, Heiner Matthias	186 x Intel Pentium II	450
Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder	AMD K6-3 ^[5]	600
Ruy Lopez	ES	Álvaro Begué, José Manuel Morán	Intel Pentium II	450
Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen	Intel Pentium III	550
SOS	DE	Rudolf Huber	Intel Pentium II	450
Virtual Chess X	FR	Marc-François Baudot, Jean-Christophe Weill	Intel Pentium II	450
XXXX2	DE	Martin Zentner	Intel Pentium II	450
Zugzwang	DE	Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Heiner Matthias	Cray T3E, 512 x DEC Alpha 21264 ^[6]	300

CC Country Codes

Photos & Games

Round 6

Round 6: Ferret - Shredder, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Bruce Moreland ^[7] ^[8]

[Event "WCCC 1999"]
[Site "Paderborn, Germany"]
[Date "1999.06.18"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Ferret"]
[Black "Shredder"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O Nge7 8. cxd4 d5
9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Ba3 Be6 11.Bb5 Bb4 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.Bxb4 Nxb4 14.Qa4 Qd6 15.Nc3
Nd3 16.d5 Nc5 17.Qxc6+ Qxc6 18.dxc6 Ke7 19.Rfe1 Nd3 20.Re3 Nb4 21.Nd4 Rhd8 22.Rd1
Kf6 23.a3 Nd5 24.Ne4+ Ke7 25.Ree1 Bg4 26.f3 Bc8 27.Nc5+ Kf6 28.Nb5 Be6 29.Na6 Rac8
30.Nbxc7 h5 31.h3 h4 32.a4 Nxc7 33.Rxd8 Rxd8 34.Nxc7 Rc8 35.Nxe6 fxe6 36.Rc1 e5
37.Kf2 Ke6 38.g3 hxg3+ 39.Kxg3 Kd6 40.Rd1+ Ke6 41.Rd7 Rxc6 42.Rxg7 Rc3 43.Rg4 Kf5
44.h4 Rc1 45.h5 Rc6 46.Rg7 Ra6 47.Rg4 Rc6 48.Rg7 Ra6 49.Rg8 Rb6 50.Kh4 Rb4+ 51.Kg3
Rb6 52.Kh4 Rb4+ 53.Rg4 Rb2 54.Kg3 Rb6 55.a5 Rd6 56.Rg7 Ra6 57.Rg8 Rd6 58.Kh4 Rd4+
59.Kg3 Rd6 60.Rb8 Kg5 61.Re8 Rd5 62.a6 Ra5 63.Re7 e4 64.Rxa7 Ra3 65.Kf2 Rxf3+
66.Ke2 Kxh5 67.Ra8 Rf7 68.Ke3 Re7 69.Rb8 Kg6 70.Rb6+ Kf5 1/2-1/2

Round 7

Round 7: HIARCS - CilkChess, Erdogan Günes, Charles Leiserson (back of head), Don Dailey ^[9] ^[10]

[Event "WCCC 1999"]
[Site "Paderborn, Germany"]
[Date "1999.06.19"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Hiarcs"]
[Black "CilkChess"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 c5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 cxd4 5.exd4 d5 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.Bg5 Be7 8.c5 O-O
9.Bb5 Bd7 10.O-O b6 11.Na4 bxc5 12.Bxf6 Bxf6 13.Nxc5 Re8 14.Rc1 Rc8 15.Ba6
Rb8 16.b3 Qa5 17.a4 Rb4 18.Nd3 Rb6 19.Bb5 Rxb5 20.axb5 Nxd4 21.Nxd4 Bxd4
22.Qc2 Bxb5 23.Rfd1 Qb6 24.Nc5 Be5 25.Qd2 Qb8 26.g3 Bf6 27.Rc2 Qa8 28.f3 a5
29.Rdc1 Be7 30.Qd4 Bg5 31.f4 Bf6 32.Qd2 d4 33.Nd3 Be7 34.Rd1 Qf3 35.Ne5 Qe4
36.Ra2 d3 37.Qg2 Qd4+ 38.Kh1 Bb4 39.Qb7 Qc5 40.Qe4 d2 41.Kg2 Qb6 42.Rc2 Rd8
43.g4 f6 44.Nc6 Qb7 45.Qxe6+ Kf8 46.Kf2 Re8 47.Qd5 Bxc6 48.Rxc6 Qa7+ 0-1

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

Parallel Experts

Talking Cilk at WCCC 1999: Vincent Diepeveen, Don Dailey and Charles Leiserson

Publications

Burkhard Monien, Rainer Feldmann, Jaap van den Herik (1999). More Information on the 9th World Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1
Mathias Feist (1999). The 9th Wold Computer-Chess Championship: Report on the tournament. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3
Don Beal (1999). The 9th World Computer-Chess Championship: the Search-Engine Features of the Programs. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3
Eric Hallsworth (1999). The 1999 World Computer Chess Championships. Selective Search 83, pp. 12, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Eric Hallsworth (1999). World Computer Champs 1999 - The Aftermath: Summaries, Comment and Games. Selective Search 84, pp. 3, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, amazon

Chapter 2: 2002: The Dawn of the Post-Deep Blue Era, page 27

Forum Posts

Paderborn WCCC: is there micro category? by Jouni Uski, CCC, May 25, 1999
Paderborn hardware? by Ed Schröder, CCC, May 25, 1999
Paderborn - Fritz 5.32 on Quad Xeon 500 w/ 2MB L2 cache by Peter Kappler, CCC, June 14, 1999
Re: Crafty in WCCC ??? by Robert Hyatt, CCC, June 17, 1999 » Crafty
SHREDDER wins the WCCCC!! by Rolf Tüschen, rgcc, June 19, 1999
WCCC 1999. Final Result by Eric Hallsworth, rgcc, June 21, 1999
WCCC and some NPS observations by Jouni Uski, CCC, June 23, 1999 » Nodes per Second
DIEP parallel in Paderborn - technical and detailed story by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, June 28, 1999
What went wrong with P.Conners and Zugzwang in WCCC? by Jouni Uski, CCC, June 29, 1999

External Links

9th World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
9th World Computer Chess Championship, Paderborn 1999 by Volker Richey
8) World Computer Chess Championships, The Week in Chess 241
Offene Computer-WM Paderborn 1999, Teil 1 by Peter Schreiner, Schachclub Leinzell, August 1999 (German)
Videos by Thorsten Czub hosted by Ed Schröder ^[11] ^[12]

Paderborn 1999 1.mp4

Paderborn 1999 2.mp4

YouTube Videos posted by Julien Marcel ^[13]

References

↑ Tournament Rules Paderborn, Germany, 14-20 June 1999 The Board of ICCA
↑ ICGA Tournament site
↑ Don Beal (1999). The 9th World Computer-Chess Championship: the Search-Engine Features of the Programs. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3
↑ DIEP parallel in Paderborn - technical and detailed story by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, June 28, 1999
↑ Paderborn hardware? by Ed Schröder, CCC, May 25, 1999
↑ Forschungszentrum Jülich schickt Cray T-3 zur Schachweltmeisterschaft, June 09, 1999, Computerwoche (German)
↑ Image captured from Paderborn 1999 1.mp4 by Thorsten Czub hosted by Ed Schröder
↑ Paderborn 1999 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)
↑ Image captured from Paderborn 1999 1.mp4 by Thorsten Czub hosted by Ed Schröder
↑ Paderborn 1999 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 12 (ICGA Tournaments)
↑ WCCC Paderborn 1999 by Ed Schröder, CCC, October 08, 2012
↑ some video from 1999 world champs by Thorsten Czub by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, August 02, 2009
↑ Re: WCCC Paderborn 1999 by Julien Marcel, CCC, October 11, 2012

Up one level

[1] Tournament Rules Paderborn, Germany, 14-20 June 1999 The Board of ICCA

[2] ICGA Tournament site

[3] Don Beal (1999). The 9th World Computer-Chess Championship: the Search-Engine Features of the Programs. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3

[4] DIEP parallel in Paderborn - technical and detailed story by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, June 28, 1999

[5] Paderborn hardware? by Ed Schröder, CCC, May 25, 1999

[6] Forschungszentrum Jülich schickt Cray T-3 zur Schachweltmeisterschaft, June 09, 1999, Computerwoche (German)

[7] Image captured from Paderborn 1999 1.mp4 by Thorsten Czub hosted by Ed Schröder

[8] Paderborn 1999 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)

[9] Image captured from Paderborn 1999 1.mp4 by Thorsten Czub hosted by Ed Schröder

[10] Paderborn 1999 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 12 (ICGA Tournaments)

[11] WCCC Paderborn 1999 by Ed Schröder, CCC, October 08, 2012

[12] some video from 1999 world champs by Thorsten Czub by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, August 02, 2009

[13] Re: WCCC Paderborn 1999 by Julien Marcel, CCC, October 11, 2012

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