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The First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament 2001 is held in Berlin from 29 September till October 3. The adress of the event: Takustrasse 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.

The best chess programs of the World will play a seven round Swiss Tournament, lectures about computerchess, social events, sight seeing. Also a PDA/Pocket-PC tourmanent will be played.

On this page you can read more, results will reported.

The goal of the organizers is to make this tournament a fixed yearly event on which Rebel Company only can applaud.

  DATE         DAY        Time / Round

29.09.2001   Saturday     12am-4pm #1     Event1         Event2

30.09.2001   Sunday       10am-2pm #2     3pm-7pm #3     Event3

01.10.2001   Monday       Event4          3pm-7pm #4     Event5

02.10.2001   Tuesday      10am-2pm #5     3pm-7pm #6     Event6

03.10.2001   Wednesday    10am-2pm #7     Ceremony, Closing

Time control: 40/90 rest in 30' (4h per game)

Tournament : 7 rounds swiss-system

Other Events

Saturday

Lecture: FU Prof. Rojas about chessprogram of Konrad Zuses

Lecture: Mr. Wagner about Emanuel Lasker and chess/computerchess

Social Event: Dinner to meet each other in person.

Sunday

Simultaneous event: GM/IM vs. few chessprograms + a few VIPs +chess-youth+kiebitze.

Monday

Sight-seeing event: Potsdam forrest of castle Sanssouci or alternatively (rainy weather) sight seeing in bus through Berlin: Reichstag, Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charly, Brandenburger Gate, Alexander-Platz, Museum Island...

PDA/Pocket-PC chess-tournament I.

Tuesday

PDA/Pocket-PC chess-tournament II.

Wednesday

Ceremony for winner, Congratulations, ranking.
Winner PDA/Pocket-PC chess tournament vs. Winner PC-tournament.

Participants List

Program           Status            Country        Programmer

1.Gambit-Tiger    single            Guadeloupe     Christophe Theron

2.Rebel-Century   single            Netherlands    Ed Schröder

3.Patzer          multi-processor   Germany        Roland Pfister

4.Zarkov          single            USA            John Stanback

5.Matador         single            Germany        Stefan Knappe

6.Bringer         single            Germany        Gerrit Reubold

7.Yace            single            Germany        Dieter Buerssner

8.Quark           single            Germany        Thomas Mayer

9.Isichess        single            Germany        Gerd Isenberg

10.Neurologic     single            Germany        Jochen Peussner

Participants in the PDA/Pocket-PC-Tournament

Program           Class             Country        Programmer

1.Pocket Fritz    Pocket-PC         Germany        Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

2.Gambit-Tiger    Palm              Guadeloupe     Christophe Theron

3.Pocket Chess    Palm              USA            Scott Ludwig

4.Purple Chess    Palm              Great Britain       ?

There will be titles for each class of machine. Best Pocket-PC + the best Palm-program. The winner of each class have to fight against each other in a playoff game which program is the strongest chess program in all classes. So there will be one absolute strongest chess program and a best PC-program, a best pocket-PC-program and a best Palm-program altogether.

Results and Games

  Place  Name                       Sco      MBch Buch Ws



   1-2   Chess Tiger 14.6           5.0       20½  28   4

         REBEL (Maastricht)         5.0       17½  23   4

   3-5   YACE                       4.5       19½  26   3

         ZARKOV 4.5T                4.5       16½  22   4

         PATZER                     4.5       15½  21   2

     6   BRINGER                    4.0       16½  22   2

     7   QUARK                      3.0       22½  28   1

     8   ISICHESS                   2.5       19   24½  1

     9   NEUROLOGIC                 1.5       20   25½  0

    10   LOKAL-MATADOR              0.5       18½  25   0

Download all games in PGN format