Chess Classic Spike is the first Chess960 computer world champion!
12.08.2005 - The German program Spike by Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer won the first Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship. After the first day the local heroes from Mainz and Wiesbaden scored four points, and today they could add another 1,5 points which was enough to win the first price. Another German program, Jonny, programmed by the strong chessplayer Johannes Zwanzger landed on the second place, the Norwegian program Glaurung by Tord Romsted came in third.