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4. Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship
30 July-1 August 2008
Rapid Chess
20min / game + 5s / move
Course of events
Mi., 07/30: First set of rounds - 6 rounds
Do., 07/31: Second set of rounds - 6 rounds
Fr., 08/1: Big and small final - 4 matches + poss. Tie-break (5min /game + 5s / move)
Start time of rounds
Each: 11:00 h, 12:30 h, 14:00 h
Finale additionally: 15:30 h, Tie-break: 17:00 h
Participants:
Rybka 3 960 64-bit MP
3052 Elo
Chess 960 Computer World Champion 2007
World Computer Champion Amsterdam 2007
IPCCC 2006-winner
#1 of SSDF-World ranking
Programmer: Vasic Rajlich
Rybka Homepage
Deep Shredder 11.06 Mainz
2970 Elo
Chess960 Computer World Champion 2006
Chess960 Computer World Champion Reykjavik 2005
Programmer: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Deep Shredder Homepage
Deep Sjeng 3.0 e2
2947 Elo
Programmer: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Deep Sjeng Homepage
Naum 3.1
2956 Elo
Programmer: Alexsander Naumov
Naum Homepage
Chess960 positions used each round:
| Runde | Position | Dice rolled by |
a1 | b1 | c1 | d1 | e1 | f1 | g1 | h1 |
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a8 | b8 | c8 | d8 | e8 | f8 | g8 | h8 |
| First round |
| 1 | 672 | Hans-Walter Schmitt | B | B | Q | R | K | N | N | R |
2 | 169 | GM Klaus Bischoff | N | R | N | B | B | K | Q | R |
| 3 | 105 | GM Vlastimil Hort | Q | N | R | B | B | N | K | R |
| 4 | 179 | GM Krishnan Sasikiran | B | N | R | N | K | R | Q | B |
| 5 | 442 | Stefan Meyer-Kahlen | R | N | N | Q | B | B | K | R |
| 6 | 37 | GM Viswanathan Anand | N | N | B | B | Q | R | K | R |
| Second round |
| 7 | 749 | GM Sergei Movsesian | R | K | N | B | N | Q | B | R |
| 8 | 326 | GM Arkadij Naiditsch | N | R | B | Q | K | B | R | N |
| 9 | 682 | WGM Bianca Muhren | Q | R | K | N | B | B | N | R |
| 10 | 578 | GM Dennis De Vreugt | B | Q | R | N | K | B | R | N |
| 11 | 897 | GM Hikaru Nakamura | B | R | K | B | Q | R | N | N |
| 12 | 426 | GM Judit Polgar | R | N | Q | N | B | B | K | R |
| Final |
| 1 | 186 | OB Jens Beutel | N | R | N | K | B | B | R | Q |
| 2 | 704 | GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov | B | B | R | K | Q | N | N | R |
| 3 | 47 | | N | N | Q | R | K | R | B | B |
| 4 | 614 | | R | N | B | Q | K | B | R | N |
Result:
Rybka defends her title an remains Computer-World Champion in Rapid Chess960. Deep Shredder finished second in front of
Deep Sjeng (rank 3) and Naum (rank 4).
Detailed results
Games (.pgn)
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