The US program Rybka won the 16th World Computer Chess Championship that was held from September 28th to October 5th 2008 in Beijing Golden Century Golf Club, Fangshan, Beijing, China, a full point ahead of its nearest rival, the British program Hiarcs. Rybka drew with Junior from Israel & Cluster Toga from Germany with the remaining wins. Third, a point behind, was the Israeli program Junior, followed by Cluster Toga and then Shredder. The hardware used in the event ranged from a 40-core system to a Nokia cell phone.
Computer Chess World Champion Vasik Rajlich, creator of Rybka
The Winner
Prices for Rybka
Multi-processor version: Deep Rybka 3 99.90 Euro
Single processor version: Rybka 3 49.99 Euro
Rybka 3 Book 24.99 Euro
Note that Rybka 3 includes a database of one million games, and that the purchase of the program entitles you to one year of access to the chess server Playchess.com. Rybka 3 is a UCI engine, with 32 and 64-bit versions included in the package. Rybka can be made the default engine in ChessBase 10.
| Rank | Program | Origin | Hardware | Score | Games |
| 1 | Rybka |  | Cluster, 40 cores | 8 | 9 |
| 2 | Hiarcs |  | Intel Skulltrail, 8 x 4Ghz | 7 | 9 |
| 3 | Junior |  | Intel Dunnington, 12 x 2.67Ghz | 6 | 9 |
| 4 | Cluster Toga |  | Cluster, 24 cores | 5.5 | 9 |
| 5 | Shredder |  | Intel Core 2, 8 x 3.16Ghz | 4.5 | 9 |
| 6 | Falcon |  | Intel Core 2, 2 x 2.1Ghz | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Jonny |  | Cluster, 16 cores | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | Sjeng |  | Intel Core 2, 4 x 2.8Ghz | 3.5 | 9 |
| 9 | The Baron |  | AMD Opteron 270, 4 x 2Ghz | 2.5 | 9 |
| 10 | Mobile Chess |  | Nokia 6120c | 0 | 9 |
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