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Hyatt Regency [1]

The ACM's Seventh North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held on October 19 to 21, 1976 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Houston, Texas, USA [2] .

Final Standing

[3]

# Program CC 1 2 3 4 P SOS SoDOS G
1 Chess 4.5 US 6b1 5w1 3b1 2w1 4 10 10 4
2 CHAOS US 8w1 7b1 5w1 1b0 3 10 6 4
3 Black Knight US 9w1 10b1 1w0 7b1 3 8 4 4
4 Blitz 4 US 5b0 bye1 9w1 6w1 3 5 3 3
5 Duchess US 4w1 1b0 2b0 11w1 2 11 4 4
6 Wita CA 1w0 9b1 8w1 4b0 2 10 3 4
7 Chute 1.2 CA 11b1 2w0 10b1 3w0 2 8 2 4
8 L'Excentrique CA 2b0 11w1 6b0 10w1 2 7 2 4
9 ETAOIN SHRDLU US 3b0 6w0 4b0 bye1 1 8 0 3
10 Chesstar US bye1 3w0 7w0 8b0 1 7 0 3
11 Xenarbor 4 US 7w0 8b0 bye1 5b0 1 6 0 3

Participants

Name CC Authors Organization Hardware
Black Knight US Fred Prouse, Kenn Sogge,
Gary Maltzen, Lonny Lebahn
Sperry Univac UNIVAC 1100
Blitz 4 US Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower University of Southern Mississippi XDS Sigma 9
CHAOS US Mike Alexander, Victor Berman, Ira Ruben,
Fred Swartz, William Toikka, Joe Winograd
University of Michigan UNIVAC 1108
Chess 4.5 US David Slate, Larry Atkin Northwestern University CDC Cyber 175
Chesstar US Lincoln Shannon Honeywell x16
Chute 1.2 CA Michael Valenti, Zvonko Vranesic University of Toronto Amdahl
Duchess US Eric Jensen, Tom Truscott, Bruce Wright Duke University IBM 370
ETAOIN SHRDLU US Garth Courtois Jr. Michigan State University Nova 1200
L'Excentrique CA Claude Jarry McGill University AMDAHL 470V/7
Wita CA Tony Marsland University of Alberta Amdahl
Xenarbor 4 US Donald Miller Control Data IBM 370/158

Selected Games

Round 4, Chess 4.5 - CHAOS [4]

[Event "ACM 1976"]
[Site "Houston TX"]
[Date "1976.10.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chess 4.5"]
[Black "CHAOS"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Nxd5 cxd5 
9.Bd3 g6 10.O-O Bg7 11.Qe2 Bb7 12.b3 Qe7 13.a4 Qb4 14.Ba3 Qc3 15.f4 f6 16.Bd6 f5 
17.a5 Kf7 18.Qf2 Bf8 19.Bxf8 Rhxf8 20.Qh4 Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Kg7 22.b4 Qxb4 23.Rab1 Qxa5 
24.Rxb7 Qa4 25.Bb5 1-0

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