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Sheraton Boston Hotel

The ACM's Third North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held from August 13 to 15, 1972 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel , Boston, Massachusetts .

Final Standing

#	Program	1	2	3	P	SOS	SoDOS	Playoff
1	Chess 3.6	4w1	3b1	2w1	3	6	6
2	Tech	5b1	6w1	1b0	2	5	2	4b0, 3w1	3
3	Coko III	7b1	1w0	6b1	2	4½	1½	2b0, 4w0	4
4	Ostrich	1b0	7w1	5b1	2	4½	1½	2w1,3b1	2
5	Schach	2w0	8b1	4w0	1	4½	½
6	USC CP	8w1	2b0	3w0	1	4½	½
7	MSU CP	3w0	4b0	8w½	½	4½	¼
8	Leverett CP	6b0	5w0	7b½	½	2½	¼

• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
• SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

Participants

Program	Team	Hardware	Language
Chess 3.6	Larry Atkin, Keith Gorlen, David Slate	CDC 6400	Fortran IV, COMPASS
Coko III	Dennis Cooper, Ed Kozdrowicki	UNIVAC 1108	Fortran
Leverett CP	Bruce W. Leverett	PDP-10
MSU CP	Mike Rackley, George Moore	UNIVAC 1106
Ostrich	George Arnold, Monroe Newborn	Nova 800	Assembly
Schach	Rolf C. Smith, Franklin D. Ceruti	IBM 360/65	Fortran IV
Tech	Jim Gillogly	PDP-10	BLISS
USC CP	Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson, Charles Kalme	IBM 370/155

Tournament Director

• David Levy

Panel Discussion

On the morning of the last day of the tournament the authors of the programs met for a panel discussion . Professor Mittman served as moderator. Other members of the panel were David Levy, Jim Gillogly, Al Zobrist, George Arnold, Franklin Ceruti, David Slate, Ed Kozdrowicki, and Monty Newborn. The panel arrived a few conclusions:

1. a need for including algorithms controlling long-range strategy was emphasized
2. there was interest in the USC approach
3. self-learning was confirmed as being a long way off. Arthur Samuel was in the audience and participated actively in the discussion.

Publications

• Computers Compete in Sheraton Chess Match by Peter Koretsky, The Harvard Crimson, August 22, 1972
• Woodrow W. Bledsoe (1972). Computer Chess Championship in Boston. ACM SIGART Bulletin, No. 34
• Schach-Computer: Bitteres Ende, Der Spiegel 36/1972, September 1972, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German)
• Monroe Newborn (1975). Computer Chess. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.

Chapter VII. The Third United States Computer Chess Championship

• Editor, Ben Mittman (1978). Echoes from the past. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 84

External Links

• ACM 1972 CSVN site
• North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
• ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall

References

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