BELCT 2001

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Emanuel Lasker

The First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament (BELCT) took place at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, from September 29 until October 3, 2001. The Tournament was the idea of the "Berlin Computer Chess Friends", Ingo Bauer, Peter Berger, Thorsten Czub, Stefan Knappe, Heiner Marxen and Volker Pittlik, and was devoted to Emanuel Lasker, supported by the Emanuel Lasker Society . The hardware was kindly provided by AMD Germany. As a kind of opening ceremony, professor Raúl Rojas from the Free University and host of the tournament, hold an exclusive lecture for all participants about Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül, including some chess routines written in it. The First BELCT was played with ten participants, seven round swiss, time-control 90 minutes per side and game.

Final Standing

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total	SOS	SoDOS
1	Gambit Tiger	FR	6w1	4b1	2w1	3b0	5w½	7w1	8b½	5	28	20
2	Rebel	NL	3b½	10w1	1b0	7w1	4b1	6w½	9b1	5	23	13¾
3	Yace	DE	2w½	7b½	5b½	1w1	8b1	9w1	4b0	4½	26	15¼
4	Zarkov	US	8b1	1w0	7b½	9w1	2w0	10b1	3w1	4½	22	10½
5	Patzer	DE	7w½	9b½	4w½	5b½	1b½	8w1	10w1	4½	21	12
6	Bringer	DE	1b0	8w½	10b1	5w½	9b1	2b½	7w½	4	22	9½
7	Quark	DE	5b½	3w½	4w½	2b0	10w1	1b0	6b½	3	28	9¼
8	IsiChess	DE	4w0	6b½	9w½	10b1	3w0	5b0	1w½	2½	24½	5¾
9	Neurologic	DE	10b½	5w½	8b½	4b0	6w0	3b0	2w0	1½	25½	3¾
10	Lokalmatador	DE	9w½	2b0	6w0	8w0	7b0	4w0	5b0	½	25	¾

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
• SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

Participants

Engine	Author	Origin	Operator	AMD Hardware
Bringer	Gerrit Reubold	Germany	Peter Berger	Athlon 1333 256 MB
Gambit Tiger	Christophe Théron	Guadeloupe	Heiner Marxen	Athlon 1400 256 MB
IsiChess	Gerd Isenberg	Germany		Athlon 1400 512 MB
Lokalmatador	Stefan Knappe	Germany		Athlon 1400 256 MB
Neurologic	Jochen Peussner	Germany		Athlon 1333 256 MB
Patzer	Roland Pfister	Germany		Athlon 1400 256 MB
Quark	Thomas Mayer	Germany		Athlon 1400 256 MB
Rebel	Ed Schröder	The Netherlands	Thorsten Czub	Athlon 1200 384 MB
Yace	Dieter Bürßner	Germany	Ingo Bauer	2xAthlon 1200 512MB
Zarkov	John Stanback	United States	Thorsten Czub	Athlon 1400 256 MB

• CC Country Codes

Photos

Participants

Gerd Isenberg, Thomas Mayer, Heiner Marxen, Jochen Peussner, Roland Pfister, Thorsten Czub,
Stefan Knappe, Ingo Bauer and Peter Berger

Mayer-Marx-Engels

Mayer, Marx & Engels, Marx-Engels Forum, in the background the Palace of the Republic

Dem Deutschen Volke

Gerd, Roland, Peter, Heiner, Thorsten and Ingo in diffuse national pride in front of the Reichstag building

Over the board

Heiner & Roland near to the draw between Patzer & Tiger

Gerd & Jochen just before the match IsiChess - Neurologic

Tournament Organizers

• Ingo Bauer
• Peter Berger
• Thorsten Czub
• Stefan Knappe
• Heiner Marxen
• Volker Pittlik

Tournament Host

• Raúl Rojas, Free University of Berlin

Forum Posts

• BELCT2001 - Computerschachturnier in Berlin - bist DU dabei by Peter Berger, Winboard Forum, September 23, 2001
• Berlin (after Thorsten) by WYx, Winboard Forum, October 03, 2001

External Links

• Schachcomputerwelt - Thorsten Czub's magazine covers the 1. BELCT (German)
• First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament 2001 by Ed Schröder
• 1st Berlin Emanuel-Lasker Computer Chess Tournament by Volker Richey

References

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