This has been a dear hobby the last months, and I'd like to thank you all for this experience. I've learned a lot from more experienced players than me, and also from others, in several ways. I will not mention any names.

<benjinathan> Ice malarky, ah, thanks. I agree with you that the time control benefited us more than GM Arno. It was not "unfair", but I think he underestimated the time it took us to put together all the engine and centaur analyses. We made more analyses in one day than he could have done in a week, and put them together by help of the forum system. So GM Nickel, if you read this, I think you never really had a chance with the black pieces!

I wrote up a brief (very brief) report about the game on my chess club's blog here: http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp...

I already thanked GM Nickel on his page.

To save space I'll try to mention everybody just once.

The MVP is clearly <Thorsson> like the subtle 28.h3 29.Kh2 showed - two great moves! <Tomlinsky> was the first one to come up with 18.Qd2 and the <monad trap> after 19.Bb6 will not be forgotten (his website was also nice). <Honza Cervenka> did a good job as usual.

Many thanks to those ones who put up the forum system and <twinlark> organizing it (with strong analyst <Domdaniel> helping out for a while). There were many others like <Open Defence>, <YouRang>, <jepflast>, <themadhair>, <Nightranger>, <stevens>, <OhioChessFan>, <Eyal>, etc.

<RandomVisitor> dedicated his brutally strong computers with the latest Rybka versions to the game and his forum. <Artar1> analysed a lot and also created the <Leviathan>.

There were many analysts working hard to secure our victory: <Boomie>, <Noctiferus>, <isemeria>, <KnightLunatic>, <kwgurge>, <Wassily>, <Willem Wallekes>, <Tabanus>, <GufeldStudent> and others!

<chesstoplay> brought the scholarship for strong analysts to live and <Dionyseus> won after <Thorsson> declined.

This wouldn't be complete without mentioning the inimitable <RookFile> who had great influence in the beginning (like the 10.a4-manoeuver).

Hopefully, I didn't forget anyone. But I also want to thank all the other contributers who supported the World during this struggle and to those who voted for good moves and demonstrated their love for this game! This success wouldn't have been possible without them and their willingness to change their votes when better alternatives were available.

The only losers are those ones who tried to sabotage the challenge and to make mischief. They insulted the members of The World, posted fake analysis to cause confusion and they even had their supporters. But they failed miserably and are a disgrace to the team, <chessgames.com> and GM Arno Nickel!

But this shouldn't take away attention from this great moment in the history of chess: The World beats a Grandmaster for the first time! The game itself is a true beauty and it's always a pleasure to look at it!