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WMCC London diary
From August 21-25, 20000 the World Micro Computer-Chess Championship (WMCC) is held in London, England.
Rebel company will be present with 2 entries: Chess-Tiger 12.9 and Rebel-Century 3.0 (beta) will play the strongest field ever and both will go for the title.
One of our beta testers has played 20 manual tournament against the strongest chess engines currently available Rebel having the slower hardware most of the time. Rebel Century 3.0 (beta) did not lose one single game although the drawing rate was quite high. Nevertheless a fantastic starting point.
We do not claim a victory in London as we don't know the progress of others plus the fact that history has proven that one need to have at least a 70% score in the preparation period to have a 90% chance on the title (source: Jan Louwman).
We also are informed another (non Rebel) engine has an even higher preparation percentage than Rebel Century 3.0 (beta) so one thing for sure this is going to be an exciting tournament.
Our second secret wapon is Chess-Tiger 12.9. Last year Christophe surprised the whole world by entering the Swedish Computer List at the no.1 place coming from nowhere. The new Tiger computes a lot deeper than the commercial version and this 12.9 version has the potential to crush them all.
But will it happen.......?
On this page you can follow the progess of Rebel and Chess Tiger during the tournament. Your annotator will be Jeroen Noomen.
The tournament schedule:
Round 1: 11am-4pm Monday
Round 2: 4pm-9pm Monday
Round 3: 10am-3pm Tuesday
Round 4: 4pm-9pm Tuesday
Round 5: 10am-3pm Wednesday
Round 6: 10am-3pm Thursday
Round 7: 4pm-9pm Thursday
Round 8: 9am-2pm Friday
Round 9: 2pm-7pm Friday
Time control: 60 moves in 2 hours followed by the rest of the game in 30 minutes.
The following titles will be awarded:
[a] Absolute World Microcomputer Champion 2000 - for the overall winner.
[b] Either (if the overall winner is a professional or semi-professional) World Microcomputer Amateur Chess Champion 2000 - for the highest placed amateur program Or (if the overall winner is an amateur) World Microcomputer Professional Chess Champion 2000 - for the highest-placed professional or semi-professional program.
Results round 1 (Day 1): Results round 2 (Day 1): Shredder - Diep 1 : 0 Chess Tiger - Shredder 0 : 1 Insomniac - Fritz 0 : 1 Fritz - Nimzo 1 : 0 Junior - SOS ½ : ½ Rebel - Crafty 1 : 0 Francesca - Rebel 0 : 1 Diep - Junior 0 : 1 Nimzo - ZChess 1 : 0 SOS - Insomniac ½ : ½ Pacque Expert - Chess Tiger 0 : 1 XiniX - Francesca 0 : 1 Crafty - XiniX 1 : 0 ZChess - Pacque Expert 1 : 0 Results round 3 (Day 2): Results round 4 (Day 2): Shredder - Fritz ½ : ½ Fritz - Junior ½ : ½ Junior - Rebel 1 : 0 Rebel - Shredder ½ : ½ Nimzo - SOS 1 : 0 Crafty - Nimzo 0 : 1 Francesca - Chess Tiger ½ : ½ Chess Tiger - Insomniac 1 : 0 Crafty - ZChess 1 : 0 SOS - Francesca 1 : 0 Insomniac - XiniX 1 : 0 Diep - ZChess 0 : 1 Pacque Expert - Diep 0 : 1 XiniX - Pacque Expert 1 : 0 Results round 5 (Day 3): Shredder - Junior ½ : ½ Rebel - Fritz ½ : ½ Nimzo - Chess Tiger ½ : ½ Francesca - Crafty ½ : ½ ZChess - XiniX 1 : 0 Pacque Expert - SOS 0 : 1 Insomniac - Diep ½ : ½ Results round 6 (Day 4): Results round 7 (Day 4): Fritz - Chess Tiger ½ : ½ Shredder - SOS 1 : 0 Nimzo - Shredder ½ : ½ Junior - Nimzo 0 : 1 Junior - ZChess ½ : ½ ZChess - Fritz 0 : 1 SOS - Rebel 1 : 0 Chess Tiger - Diep 1 : 0 Crafty - Insomniac 0 : 1 Insomniac - Francesca 1 : 0 Francesca - Pacque Expert 1 : 0 XiniX - Rebel 0 : 1 Diep - XiniX 1 : 0 Pacque Expert - Crafty 0 : 1 Results round 8 (Day 5): Results round 9 (Day 5): Fritz - SOS ½ : ½ Shredder - ZChess 1 : 0 Rebel - Nimzo 1 : 0 Crafty - Fritz 0 : 1 Insomniac - Shredder 0 : 1 Chess Tiger - Junior ½ : ½ XiniX - Chess Tiger 0 : 1 Nimzo - Insomniac 0 : 1 Pacque Expert - Junior 0 : 1 Rebel - Pacque Expert 1 : 0 ZChess - Francesca 1 : 0 SOS - XiniX 1 : 0 Diep - Crafty 1 : 0 Francesca - Diep ½ : ½
Final standings after 9 rounds:
Rank Points Program Country Name Hardware 1 7 Shredder GER Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Athlon 1000 Mhz 2 6½ Fritz NL Frans Morsch Pentium III 1000 Mhz 3 6 Chess Tiger French Christophe Theron Pentium III 800 Mhz 3 6 Rebel NL Ed Schroeder Pentium III 800 Mhz 5 5½ Junior Israel Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky Pentium III 700 Mhz 5 5½ SOS GER Rudolf Huber Pentium III 667 Mhz 7 5 Nimzo Austria Chrilly Donninger Pentium III 1 GHz 7 5 Insomniac USA James Robertson Pentium III 933 MHz 9 4½ ZChess French Franck ZiBi Athlon 800 Mhz 10 4 Diep NL Vincent Diepeveen Pentium III 800 Mhz 11 3½ Crafty USA Robert Hyatt Alpha 21264, 500 MHz 11 3½ Francesca UK Tom King Celeron 600 Mhz 13 1 XiniX NL Tony Werten Celeron 500 MHz 14 0 Pasque Expert French Bruno Bras Celeron 333 MHz
All games of WMCC 2000! Download wmcc2000.pgn.
Report from WMCC London 2000 - Day 1 by Jeroen Noomen.
Report from WMCC London 2000 - Day 2 by Jeroen Noomen.
Report from WMCC London 2000 - Day 3 by Jeroen Noomen.
Report from WMCC London 2000 - Day 4 by Jeroen Noomen.
Report from WMCC London 2000 - Day 5 by Jeroen Noomen.
Programmers Gallery pictures of the WMCC 2000.