Original sentence: At the Computer Gothic Chess® World Championship of 2004, which represented a great challenge for chess variant programmers, ChessV finished in third place after 14 rounds despite a few weak points (especially in the handling all possible endgame scenarios such as recognizing unforced draws)
Edited sentence: At the Computer Gothic Chess® World Championship of 2004, which indeed represented a great challenge for chess variant programmers, ChessV finished, despite a few weak points (especially in the handling all possible endgame scenarios such as recognizing unforced draws), with a remarkable third place after 14 rounds