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[singlepic id=3765 w=320 h=240 float=left]A US computer software program by Anthony Cozzie and Erdogan Günes which won the WCCC 2005 with the magic score of 10½/11 ahead of the well-known Software programs Deep Junior and Shredder. Zappa set several records in this tournament: its score of 10.5 and margin of victory of two points are the largest ever in a World Computer Chess Championship, and its winning percentage of 95% is the highest ever in a World Championship of more than five rounds. Besides this result, in 2005, Zappa beat IGM Elhvest 3-1 and won the Dutch Computer Open Championship. In 2006, Zappa finished the WCC in fourth position and won the Villa Martelli Open 2006 (cat 7) by 10½/13. In 2007 in Mexico, Zappa beat Rybka 5.5-4.5

I’ve got no regrets about the games themselves, as frankly I’ve never been narcissistic about my play. Alexander Grischuk
2014
Who was the greatest chess player? If chess is an art, Alekhine. If chess is a science, Capablanca. If chess is a struggle, Lasker. Saviely Tartakower
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. Hans Ree
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.” Marcel Duchamp
If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible. Magnus Carlsen
2016

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