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The '''Fourteenth World Computer Chess Championship''' took place from May 25 to June 1, [[Timeline#2006|2006]], in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_Lingotto Oval Lingotto], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin Turin], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy], in conjunction with the [[11th Computer Olympiad]] <ref>[http://www.yss-aya.com/photo/20060525torino/index01.html Computer Olympiad in Torino, Italy] by [[Hiroshi Yamashita]]</ref>, the [[CG 2006|5th International Conference on Computers and Games]] <ref>[http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/cg2006/ Computer and Games Conference CG2006]</ref> , and the human [[FIDE]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_Chess_Olympiad 37th Chess Olympiad]. Local organizer of the WCCC and Computer Olympiad was [[Paolo Ciancarini]] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna University of Bologna].
[[Junior]] by [[Amir Ban]] and [[Shay Bushinsky]] did it again, also breaking the [[AMD|AMD 64]] dominance with the [[Intel]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_%28microarchitecture%29 Core microarchitecture]. [[Shredder]] by [[Stefan Meyer-Kahlen]] and [[Rybka]] aka Rajlich by [[Vasik Rajlich]] a half point behind. Reigning champion [[Zappa]] played on a cluster with 512 nodes. Naturally, their fourth, and after the [[World Computer Chess Championship#RybkaDisqualification|Rybka disqualification]] in 2011, third place, did not met the expectations of [[Anthony Cozzie]] and [[:Category:Opening Book AuthorsAuthor|book author]] [[Erdogan Günes]].
=Final Standing=
=Time Underflow=
In the round 7 game, [[Crafty]] - [[IsiChess]], the latter took profit from the sportsmanship of Crafty [[:Category:Opening Book AuthorsAuthor|book author]] and operator [[Peter Berger]], and the decision of TD [[Jaap van den Herik]] to allow IsiChess author [[Gerd Isenberg]] to switch [[Pondering|ponder]] off and to push the space bar to force the move consistently displayed in the PV for about twenty minutes. Without that, IsiChess would have lost on time, but instead it even unjustly won the game from Crafty. Just after leaving the opening book while pondering, IsiChess displayed a huge average and maximum thinking time caused by a bug in [[Time Management|time calculation]] with a "negative" thinking time <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=16&round=7&id=5 Turin 2006 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 5 (ICGA Tournaments)]</ref>.
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[Event "WCCC 2006"]
