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from July 13 to 19, 2018, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_International_Fairs Stockholm International Fairs] Conventio Convention Center <ref>[http://www.stockholmsmassan.se/ Inspiration och kunskap, affärsmöjligheter och nya vänner. Stockholmsmässan är Norden största mötesplats med ett 70-tal branschledande mässor och hundratals nationella och internationella kongresser, konferenser och evenemang varje år]</ref>,[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm Stockholm], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden Sweden], in conjunction with the [[WCSC 2018]] alongside with the [[Conferences#IJCAI2018|IJCAI]] and [[Conferences#ECAI|ECAI]] conferences. =Final Standing= 24th World Computer Chess Championship 2018, Stockholm, SE <ref>[http://icga.org/pairing/wccc2018/ World Computer Chess Championship 2018 Rankings Pairings]</ref>{| class="wikitable"|-! # ! Program ! CC ! R1 ! R2 ! R3 ! R4 ! R5 ! R6 ! R7 ! P<span style="font-size: 80%; vertical-align: sub;">7</span> ! Play-Off |-! 1. | style="text-align:left;" | [[Komodo]] ! US | style="text-align:center;" | 7b1 | style="text-align:center;" | 6w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 5b1 | style="text-align:center;" | 8w1 | style="text-align:center;" | 2b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 3w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 4b½ ! 5 | 2b1 2w½ |-! 2. | style="text-align:left;" | [[GridGinkgo]] ! DE | style="text-align:center;" | 8w1 | style="text-align:center;" | 3b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 7w1 | style="text-align:center;" | 5b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 1w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 4w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 6b1 ! 5 | 1w0 1b½ |-! 3. | style="text-align:left;" | [[Jonny]] ! DE | style="text-align:center;" | 5b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 2w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 4b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 6w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 8b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 1b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 7w1 ! 4 |-! 4. | style="text-align:left;" | [[Chiron]] ! IT | style="text-align:center;" | 6w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 8b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 3w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 7b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 5w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 2b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 1w½ ! 3½ |-! 5. | style="text-align:left;" | [[Booot]] ! UA | style="text-align:center;" | 3w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 7b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 1w0 | style="text-align:center;" | 2w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 4b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 6w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 8b1 ! 3½ |-! 6. | style="text-align:left;" | [[Shredder]] ! DE | style="text-align:center;" | 4b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 1b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 8w1 | style="text-align:center;" | 3b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 7w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 5b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 2w0 ! 3½ |-! 7. | style="text-align:left;" | [[Leela Chess Zero]] ! BE/CH++ | style="text-align:center;" | 1w0 | style="text-align:center;" | 5w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 2b0 | style="text-align:center;" | 4w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 6b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 8w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 3b0 ! 2 |-! 8. | style="text-align:left;" | [[The Baron]] ! NL | style="text-align:center;" | 2b0 | style="text-align:center;" | 4w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 6b0 | style="text-align:center;" | 1b0 | style="text-align:center;" | 3w½ | style="text-align:center;" | 7b½ | style="text-align:center;" | 5w0 ! 1½ |}* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes] =Participants= 24th World Computer Chess Championship 2018, Stockholm, SE <ref>[https://icga.org/?page_id=2469 WCCC 2018 | ICGA]</ref>{| class="wikitable"|-! Program ! CC ! Authors! Operators! Hardware|-| style="text-align:left;" | [[Booot]] ! UA | [[Alex Morozov]]|| 2x16 core [[Intel]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon Xeon] @ 1.8 GHz|-| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chiron]] ! IT | [[Ubaldo Andrea Farina]] || 2x16 core [[AMD]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyc#Server EPYC 7551] @ 2.667 GHz|-| style="text-align:left;" | [[GridGinkgo]] ! DE<br/>US| [[Kai Himstedt]], [[Frank Schneider]]<br/>[[Robert Hyatt]]| [[Wolfgang Zugrav]] (book)<br/>[[Timo Haupt]]| 40x16 core Intel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors#Xeon_E5-26xx_v4_(dual-processor) Xeon E5-2630 v3] @ 2.4 GHz|-| style="text-align:left;" | [[Jonny]] ! DE | [[Johannes Zwanzger]] || 108x24 core AMD [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opteron Opteron] @ 2.8 GHz|-| style="text-align:left;" | [[Komodo]] ! US | [[Don Dailey]], [[Larry Kaufman]]<br/>[[Mark Lefler]] | [[Erdogan Günes]] (book) | 4x15 core Intel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#E7-x8xx-series_%22Westmere-EX%22 Xeon E7-8890 v2.2] @ 2.8 GHz<br/>58 cores used|-| style="text-align:left;" | [[Leela Chess Zero]] ! BE<br/>CH++ | [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]],<br/>[[Alexander Lyashuk]] et al. <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68094&start=91 Re: TCEC season 13, 2 NN engines will be participating, Leela and Deus X] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], August 03, 2018</ref>| Cyril Guyot (round 1+2)<br/>TCECfan (round 3-7) <ref>[https://blog.lczero.org//2018/07/17/WCCC/ WCCC Update, Day 2 · Leela Chess Zero]</ref>| 8 x [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta_(microarchitecture) Tesla V100] (round 1+2)<br/>2 x [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_10_series GTX 1080 Ti] (round 3-7)|-| style="text-align:left;" | [[Shredder]] ! DE | [[Stefan Meyer-Kahlen]] || 36 Intel Xeon @ 3GHz |-| style="text-align:left;" | [[The Baron]] ! NL | [[Richard Pijl]] || 2x14 core Intel Xeon @ 3.1GHz|}* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes] =Photos===Blitz==[[FILE:WCCC2018BlitzGridGinkgoShredder.jpg|none|border|text-bottom]] Blitz attracts many spectators, mostly participants from the AI conferences - [[David Levy]] happy<br/>[[Kai Himstedt]], [[Frank Schneider]], [[Wolfgang Zugrav]] and [[Timo Haupt]] of [[GridGinkgo]] and [[Stefan Meyer-Kahlen|SMK]] of [[Shredder]] <ref>Photo by [[Gerd Isenberg]], July 13, 2018</ref>==af Chapman==[[FILE:AfChapmanProgrammers2018.jpg|none|border|text-bottom]] Some chess programmers sightseeing Stockholm, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Af_Chapman_(ship) af Chapman] in the background<br/>[[Johannes Zwanzger]], [[Richard Pijl]], [[Stefan Meyer-Kahlen]] and [[Ubaldo Andrea Farina]] <ref>Photo by [[Gerd Isenberg]], July 18, 2018</ref> =Publications=* [[Jan Krabbenbos]], [[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''2018'''). ''WCCC 2018: The 24th World Computer Chess Championship''. [https://icga.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WCCC2018.pdf pdf] * [[Matjaž Gams]] ('''2018'''). ''IJCAI 2018 - Chinese Dominance Established''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/informaticaSI/informaticaSI42.html Informatica (Slovenia), Vol. 42], No. 3 » [[Conferences#IJCAI2018|IJCAI 2018]]* [[Jan Krabbenbos]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Guy Haworth]] ('''2018'''). ''WCCC 2018: The 24th World Computer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#40_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3]]* [[Jan Krabbenbos]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Guy Haworth]] ('''2018'''). ''WSCC 2018: The World Speed Computer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#40_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3]]* [[Frank Schneider]] ('''2018'''). ''ICGA chess in Stockholm: A player perspective''. [[ICGA Journal#40_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3]] =Forum Posts=* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/S-rhiPLnbHg/XY9-Z1LWCAAJ Who entered Leela into WCCC? Bad idea!!] by [[Chris Whittington]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], June 23, 2018* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67949 how will Leela fare at the WCCC?] by dannyb, [[CCC]], July 10, 2018* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/EgEslxR04wg/6zY7sLiQAwAJ Lc0 will participate at the WCCC? Wow!] by Martin Renneke, [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], July 10, 2018* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67972 World Speed Chess Championship, WCSC and WCCC] by [[Mark Lefler]], [[CCC]], July 13, 2018