La Regence First Tournaments

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The First official appearance of La Regence was in London on September 10, 11 and 12, 1981 in a microcomputer tournament in 5 rounds (30 moves/hour). Twelve participants. La Regence with its Cyrus program won with 5 out of 5: Advance 2.0, second with 4 pts, Philidor Experimental, third with 3 pts, and Super System V, ninth with 2 pts.
Second performance infinitely less convincing at the end of November 1981 in Stockholm. Conditions were different: 7 rounds (40 moves/2 hours). La Regence /Cyrus finished last with a single point. It was defeated by Challenger Champion, Mephisto II, Super System V, Conchess/Princhess (Ulf Rathman), the Scholar. It won only one game against Rook 4.0.
Third and last public tournament was in September 1982 in London, La Regence/Cyrus, got the second place in 7 rounds, 30 moves per hour.

Unfortunately, these tournaments signed the fate of La Regence, but happily not the one of the Cyrus program and more importantly of its programmer, Richard Lang. The following year, 1982, Jaffet, a collaborator of Frederic Ries (France Double R owner and manufacturer of La Regence), founded its own company (CLJ), and made L'Empereur, a beautiful chess computer with the Cyrus program of Richard Lang.