In the first round all three of the favourites were only able to draw, Shredder against the American freeware program Crafty, Fritz against Deep Sjeng and Junior against the German program Jonny. In round two Shredder beat the German ParSOS and Junior the British program Woodpusher, while Fritz, after an enterprising game, only got a disappointing draw with black against IsiChess. Here are the results in full.
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Standings:
1 Diep 2.0
2-4 Shredder, Junior, Jonny 1.5
5-11 Fritz, IsiChess, ParSOS, Falcon, Crafty, Deep Sjeng, Movei 1.0
12 Woodpusher 1997 0.5
13-14 The Crazy Bishop, FIBChess
The games are being transmitted live on the Playchess.com server, with audio and visual commentary by GM Boris Alterman.
The Gonda Brain Research Center where the World Championship is being
held
The playing area, with GM Boris Alterman in front of the projection screen
The commentary by Alterman is transmitted live on Playchess.com
On the Playchess server computer expert Boris Alterman is able to move
pieces, draw arrows or highlight squares to explain the games to computer chess
enthusiasts all over the world.
Junior team Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky playing against Jonny of J. Zwanzger
The Bar-Ilan University Vice President for Research, Mina Teicher, visits
the event and making a move for Crafty (against Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, operating
Shredder)
John Hamlen (left) participating with Woodpusher after seven years of retirement
from computer chess competitions, against Gerd Isenberg and IsiChess
Deep Sjeng, operated by Avi Shatz, against Frans Morsch with Fritz
Shay Bushinsky, Nathan Netanyahu, and David Levy at the opening ceremony
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