North American Computer Chess Championship

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The special events for ACM 1970 included the first championship.

The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994. It was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery and by Monty Newborn, professor of computer science at McGill University. [1] It was one of the first computer chess tournaments. The 14th NACCC was also the World Computer Chess Championship. The event was canceled in 1995 as Deep Blue was preparing for the first match against world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and never resumed.

Event #YearLocationWinner
11970 New York City Chess 3.0
21971 Chicago Chess 3.0
31972 Boston Chess 3.0
41973 Atlanta Chess 3.5
51974 San Diego Ribbit
61975 Minneapolis Chess 4.4
71976 Houston Chess 4.5
81977 Seattle Chess 4.6
91978 Washington, D.C. Belle
101979 Detroit Chess 4.9
111980 Nashville Belle
121981 Los Angeles Belle
131982 Dallas Belle [2]
141983 New York City Cray Blitz
151984 San Francisco Cray Blitz
161985 Denver HiTech
171986 Dallas Belle
181987 Dallas ChipTest-M
191988 Orlando, Florida Deep Thought
201989 Reno, Nevada HiTech and Deep Thought
211990 New York City Deep Thought
221991 Albuquerque Deep Thought II
231993 Indianapolis Socrates II
241994 Cape May, New Jersey Deep Thought II

References

  1. Monty Newborn's homepage at McGill University
  2. Stinson, Craig (January 1982). "Chess Championship: Machines Play, People Watch". Softline. p. 6. Retrieved 13 July 2014.