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The Third Livingston ¹ Chess960 Computer World Championship was held within the scope of the Chess Classic Mainz, Germany, August 15 - 17, 2007, organized by Hans-Walter Schmitt and his Chess Tigers ². Due to financial constraints the tournament was no longer an open tournament and four programs were invited, 2005 and 2006 champions Spike and Shredder, two times vice champion Jonny, and current Number One in the SSDF rating list ³ and WCCC 2007 champion Rybka. Hans Secelle served as arbiter, and Eric van Reem as Tournament director.

Contents

Final Standing
Rolling the Dice
Reports
Forum Posts
External Links
References

Final Standing

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Preliminary

#	Program	CC	Authors	Sh	Ry	Sp	Jo	P	G
1.	Deep Shredder	DE	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen	-	½½	1½	1½	4	6
2.	Rybka 2.3	US	Vasik Rajlich	½½	-	01	11	4	6
3.	Spike 1.3 MP	DE	Volker Böhm, Ralf Schäfer	0½	10	-	½1	3	6
4.	Jonny Mainz	DE	Johannes Zwanzger	0½	00	½0	-	1	6

CC Country Codes

Final

	Final	1	2	3	4	P
1	Rybka 2.3	1	1	½	-	2½
2	Deep Shredder	0	0	½	-	½

Place 3

	Place 3	1	2	3	4	P
3	Spike 1.3 MP	1	½	1	0	2½
4	Jonny Mainz	0	½	0	1	1½

Rolling the Dice

with Arbiter Hans Secelle ⁵


Viktorija Čmilytė		Hans-Walter Schmitt, Levon Aronian

Reports

Hans Secelle and Eric van Reem (2007). Golden Summer for RYBKA. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3

Forum Posts

Chess960 in Mainz by Tord Romstad, CCC, May 04, 2007
Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship 2007 by Harvey Williamson, CCC, July 01, 2007
Chess960 PGN for Mainz 2007 (LONG!) by Mike Scheidl, CCC, August 22, 2007

External Links

References

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Livingston, Europe's Number 1 Test & Measurement Hire and Computer Rental Company ↩︎
Chess Tigers (German)↩︎
SSDF Rating List 2007-04-21 by Thoralf Karlsson, CCC, April 21, 2007↩︎
Results (pdf)↩︎
Photos by Eric van Reem from Rybka is Chess960 computer chess champion ↩︎