World Computer Chess Championship Round 1

Rybka started out the competition with a win over Deep Sjeng. At first, Deep Sjeng seemed to be holding it's own, but fell apart in the late middlegame. The scores (evaluations) were pretty even until Deep Sjeng played Bg7, with computers, it's really tough to say exactly what the losing move was, but that's where Rybka started to get on the plus side and take advantage of every inaccuracy that Deep Sjeng played.

Finally, Deep Sjeng resigned after Rybka had a Rook+Bishop+pawn vs Deep Sjeng's B+3 pawns... Evaluation had Rybka firmly ahead at that point by +5.00.



Standings after Round 1, Probably won't get Round 2 in until tomorrow.

Rank	Program	Country	Hardware	Score	Games	SOS	SoDOS
1	Jonny	DEU		1.0	1	0.0	0.00
1	Shredder	DEU		1.0	1	0.0	0.00
1	Hiarcs	GBR	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	1.0	1	0.0	0.00
1	Rybka	USA		1.0	1	0.0	0.00
	Junior	ISR	Intel Xeon W5580 @ 3.2GHz x 8	0.0	1	0.0	0.00
6	Joker	NLD	Core 2 Duo	0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	Pandix 2009	HUN		0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	Deep Sjeng	BEL		0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	Equinox	ITA	8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 2.66GHz	0.0	1	1.0	0.00
6	The Baron	NLD		0.0	1	1.0	0.00

•SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
•SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores