International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship

The International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament for computer chess programs. It is organised yearly by the University of Paderborn. The first edition was played in 1991, the fifth edition is 1995 was also the 13th edition of the World Microcomputer Chess Championship.

Champions

#	Year	Program	Champion
1	1991	Zugzwang	Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Heiner Matthias
2	1992	Zugzwang	Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Heiner Matthias
3	1993	Bobby	Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer
4	1994	Schach 3.0	Matthias Engelbach, Thomas Kreitmair
5	1995	MChess Pro 5.0	Martin Hirsch
6	1997	Zugzwang	Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz, Heiner Matthias
7	1998	Nimzo98	Christian Donninger
8	1999	P.ConNerS	Ulf Lorenz
9	2000	Shredder	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
10	2001	Shredder	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
11	2002	Shredder	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
12	2003	Fritz	Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist
13	2004	Hydra	Christian Donninger, Alex Kure, Ulf Lorenz
14	2005	Hydra	Christian Donninger, Alex Kure, Ulf Lorenz
15	2005	Rybka	Vasik Rajlich
16	2006	Rybka	Vasik Rajlich
17	2007	HIARCS	Mark Uniacke

References

Complete results and crosstables the CSVN:
Reports from Chessbase: 2002, 2003 and 2004
Results from TWIC: 2003, 2006
Program info from the ICGA:
Official homepage

Chess

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