Author Archives: Jan Krabbenbos

Komodo completed the triple this year by also winning the World Computer Chess Championship 2018 after a play-off with GridGinkgo. GridGinkgo became second after it lost the play-off with 1½-½. Because Jonny won from Leela Chess Zero, it became third. … Continue reading →

The seventh and last round has started. Everybody is in the playing hall. All information can be found on https://icga.org/?page_id=2469. Live page: http://view.livechesscloud.com/7c104c94-c119-441e-a444-b0f22a1880d0. Live PGN files at http://www.icga.org/live/games/pgn. Photos from the event in Stockholm: Photos

The fifth round has started. Everybody is in the playing hall. All information can be found on https://icga.org/?page_id=2469. Live page: http://view.livechesscloud.com/7c104c94-c119-441e-a444-b0f22a1880d0. Live PGN files at http://www.icga.org/live/games/pgn. Photos from the event in Stockholm: Photos  

Round 3 has started. Unfortunately Leela Chess Zero will not be playing at this moment, due to unforeseen problems. They are looking for another operator to finish the tournament. If anybody is available to operate, please contact both the Leela … Continue reading →

The latest versions of the PGN files of all played games of the Speed Chess and the WCSC are now updated: Speed Chess: blitz2018.pgn WCSC: WCSC2018.pgn The files are zipped pgn files.

Live games (new link!): http://view.livechesscloud.com/7c104c94-c119-441e-a444-b0f22a1880d0. Click on the top to select round and game. Live pgn files: http://www.icga.org/live/round-1/games.pgn. Change the round number for the following rounds. WCCC page: https://icga.org/?page_id=2469 Information will be added during the first round, which starts at 09:00.

Komodo has won the World Chess Software Championship 2018 after the play-offs. Congratulations to the Komodo team. During round 9 it was not at all clear who would be joining Booot. It could have been Jonny, it could have been … Continue reading →

Round 6 starts at 09:00. Round 7 11:30 Round 8 14:00 Round 9 16:15 (a little earlier because of the soccer final) Play-offs 18:30 (Boost – Komodo) The live games of the World Computer Software Championship can be followed on: … Continue reading →

With a large number of points more than the runners-up, Komodo has won the World Championship Speed Chess 2018. Congratulations to the Komodo Team. For all results and games, see https://icga.org/?page_id=2475.