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[ Brucknerhaus, Danube, Alps with Großer Priel [1] The Third World Computer Chess Championship took place from September 25 to 29, 1980, at Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria, under the auspices of the ICCA. The championship was held as part of Linz’s annual Bruckner Festival and was presented as one of the special events in the Ars Electronica activities, which included seminars on electronic and the arts, computer music, and a microcomputer chess exhibition [2] .The tournament organizers were David Levy, Ben Mittman and Monroe Newborn. Special guests were Claude Shannon, the developer of the information theory, and Friðrik Ólafsson, President of FIDE. Commentary was done in German and English by German Grandmaster Helmut Pfleger.
It was a four round Swiss tournament, with both Belle and CHAOS finishing with 3½. The championship was decided by the most exciting game of the tournament, a playoff between Shannon’s Type A versus Type B strategy in presence of its innovator, which was won by Belle, the type A brute force program with about 1000 times more nodes per second.
Participants
3rd World Computer Chess Championship 1980, Linz AT [5]
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Photos
Special guest Claude Shannon just before round 4 starts, David Levy left [7]
Photos & Games
Round 4
Claude Shannon, Tom Truscott and Ken Thompson [8], Duchess - Belle [9]
Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [1]
Playoff
Belle vs CHAOS, Thompson, Friedel, Berman, Swartz, Donskoy [10] [11]
Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [2]
Book Issues
It was remarkable that in the round three game of CHAOS versus Nuchess [12] , almost the same book-line occurred as six years before at WCCC 1974 in the game of CHAOS versus Chess, both programs with David Slate involved. In 1974 CHAOS already played 16 NxP!! - a move which has been acclaimed as the finest ever made by a computer of that time, as mentioned by Alex Bell [13] .
Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [3]
The 1974 game [14] :
Game and short analyze on Lichess.org : [4]
Quotes
From Michael Hauben’s netbook Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet [15] : Truscott and Wright continued to participate in the Chess Tournaments and in 1980 they competed in the 3rd world Computer Chess Championship held in Linz, Austria. Thompson and Joe Condon, who was a researcher at Bell Labs, were also in the competition. Truscott notes that Thompson and Condon “had completed their hardware chess machine and snagged first place. Duchess came in third. And Claude Shannon was in attendance, and even handed out the trophies at the awards ceremony. Afterwards we all went over to a TV studio to watch a West German TV special on computer chess and the championship. Claude Shannon and his wife were very engaging people. Someone took a photo of all of us, I have a copy buried somewhere”.
Chess pioneers in Sacher Hotel Vienna, Austria 1980: Ben Mittman, Monty Newborn,
Tony Marsland, Dave Slate, David Levy, Claude Shannon, Ken Thompson, Betty Shannon, Tom Truscott [16]
See also
Publications
- Ben Mittman (1980). 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, Special Issue
- David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1980). 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3
- David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1980). 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, No. 11 [17]
- Kevin O’Connell (1980). More Championships. Personal Computer World, December 1980 [18]
- Editor (1980). World-Championship Tournament. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 71
- David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1981). Belle Wins Championship. Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 105
- David Levy, Monroe Newborn (1982). All About Chess and Computers. 2nd edition, Springer, Postscript 1978-80 and Belle
External Links
- 3rd World Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament Database
- 3. Computer-Schachweltmeisterschaft (German), Ars Electronica 1980
- Die Teilnehmer an der 3. Computerschach-Weltmeisterschaft (German), Ars Electronica 1980, pdf
- Dritte Weltmeisterschaft der Schachcomputer in Linz:: Analogfunktion unterstützt “brutale Gewalt”, Computerwoche, October 24, 1980 (German)
- Sargon immer noch Marktführer:: Mikros noch ohne Großmeister-Format, Computerwoche, November 28, 1980 (German) » Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5, Chess Challenger
- Report in Spanish
- Klaus Schulze - Ars Electronica 1980 - Linzer Stahlsymphonie, September 08, 1980, YouTube Video [19]
References
- ↑ Brucknerhaus mit Alpenblick, photo by Axel Marquard, April 25, 2012
- ↑ 3. Computer-Schachweltmeisterschaft (German), Ars Electronica 1980
- ↑ 3rd World Computer Chess Championship - Linz 1980 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ World Computer Chess Championship - 3rd WCCC - 1980 Linz by Mark Weeks
- ↑ David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1980). 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, No. 11, Reprint in The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship, pdf from The Computer History Museum, pdf from Danny Kopec
- ↑ Sargon immer noch Marktführer:: Mikros noch ohne Großmeister-Format, Computerwoche, November 28, 1980 (German)
- ↑ Claude Shannon during the 3rd World Computer Chess Championship that was staged in the course of the Ars Electronica Festival 1980, credit: LIVA – Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Ars Electronica - Codes & Clowns (2010/2011) – Flickr
- ↑ archive.computerhistory.org - /resources/still-image - Mittman-Benjamin
- ↑ Linz 1980, Chess, Round 4, Game 9 from the ICGA Tournament Database
- ↑ Photo by Monroe Newborn from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Militärischer Wert Der Spiegel 24/1982, pdf (German)
- ↑ Linz 1980 - Chess - Round 3 - Game 9 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ Alex Bell (1978). MASTER at IFIPS. from Atlas Computer Laboratory, hosted by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), excerpt from A. G. Bell (1978). The Machine Plays Chess. Pergamon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0080212227, from amazon
- ↑ Stockholm 1974 - Chess - Round 2 - Game 6 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ Chapter 10 - On the early days of Usenet: The Roots of the cooperative Online Culture a draft chapter from Michael Hauben, Ronda Hauben (1997). Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9
- ↑ Chess pioneers in Sacher Hotel Vienna, Austria, Gift of Benjamin Mittman, The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Reprint in The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship, pdf from The Computer History Museum, pdf from Danny Kopec
- ↑ Publication Archive from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
- ↑ Unofficial Klaus Schulze discography - Linzer Stahlsinfonie