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Rybka duly won the World Computer Chess Championship. Sjeng won the Rapid Computer Chess Championship ahead of strong rivals such as Rybka, Hiarcs, Shredder, and Junior. The participants were Rybka, Hiarcs, Junior, Cluster Toga, Shredder, Falcon, Jonny, Sjeng, The Baron, Mobile chess. Final Standings for Normal time and Rapid games

The cut-throat world of Computer chess is at it again. This time, its the 16th World Computer Chess Championship at Beijing. Rybka has already won the title even as the last round is yet to be played. 1 Rybka USA Cluster, 40 cores 7.5 2 Hiarcs GBR Intel Skulltrail, 8 x 4Ghz 6.0 3 Junior ISR Intel Dunnington, 12 x 2.67Ghz 5.5 4 Cluster Toga DEU Cluster, 24 cores 4.5 5 Shredder DEU Intel Core 2, 8 x 3.16Ghz 4.5 6 Sjeng BEL Intel Core 2, 4 x 2.8Ghz 3.5 7 Jonny DEU Cluster, 16 cores 3.0 8 Falcon ISR Intel Core 2, 2 x 2.1Ghz 3.0 9 The Baron NLD AMD Opteron 270, 4 x 2Ghz 2.5 10 Mobile Chess CHN Nokia 6120c 0.0

Update: Rybka has won the Benjamin Joel vs Rybka match 6-2. Benjamin was able to draw only two games and he eventually ran out of drawing ideas. Rybka's team won 6 games (including the last four with black!) and drew two games. Benjamin had whites in all the games. Human beings, arise and awake! Benjamin is a strong Grandmaster and was in the Deep Blue team that beat Kasparov. ------------------------------- Earlier ------------------------------- A fascinating battle is in progress. The Chess engine Rybka is playing Joel Benjamin. Benjamin gets white in every game in the 8 game match. He also gets another additional advantage in this man vs machine match. Even if he draws against the monster machine, it will be considered a win. So far two games have been played. A seemingly drawn position in the first game turned out to be difficult to defend. Benjamin lost. In the second game, he simplified accurately to draw it, which means he won. So, the match is tied at 1-1. The third game i...