[blind-chess] Chess Article #42 World Computer Chess Championship

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:57:02 -1000 (HST)

Chess Article #42
World Computer Chess Championship
From: http://www.playe4.com/index.html

The World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is purposed to
determine the world chess champion among computer chess engines.
The World Computer Chess Championship is held every year since the
1970s, commonly together with the Computer Olympiad where computer
programs in games such as bridge, backgammon and go compete against
each other, both organized by the International Computer Games
Association (ICGA).

The next World Computer Chess Championship is expected to take
place in Beijing, China from September 29 to October 1, 2008. The
reigning computer chess champion is the American chess program
Rybka, which won the 2007-2009 events, recently held in Pamplona,
Spain. In 2007, Rybka, developed by two Interantional Masters Vasik
Rajlich and Larry Kaufman, finished at number one with 10 wins (out
of 11 games), besting former World Computer Chess Champions
including Shredder and Zappa.

World Computer Chess Championship History

The first computer chess tournament took place in 1970 in New York
City. Using cutting edge technology for its time, the event became
an annual tradition that led to the first World Computer Chess
Championship in Stockholm, Sweden in 1974. The first WCCC consisted
of 4 games, all of them won by the innovative Kaissa. Developed in
the Soviet Union and named after the goddess of chess, Kaissa was
the first chess program to include a 10,000-moves opening book and
an advanced algorithm designed to prune moves.

In time, the World Chess Championships grew bigger, participated by
more countries and their operation demanded more money; the
contesting computer programs became stronger, and the victory of
the chess computer Deep Blue over Garry Kasparov in 1997, drew
further attention to the World Computer Chess Championship, waiting
for the next chess computer to subdue a human chess grandmaster.
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