ACM North American Computer Chess Championship
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted the first major chess tournament for computers, the 1st ACM United States Computer Chess Championship, in September 1970 in New York. The event was organized by Monroe Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University [3]. The ACM chess events, in 1975 renamed the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, and in 1991 the ACM International Computer Chess Championship, were canceled in 1995 as Deep Blue was preparing for the first match against world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
Editions
| Edition | Event | Origin | Participants | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | ACM 1970 | New York | 6 | Chess 3.0 |
| 2nd | ACM 1971 | Chicago | 8 | Chess 3.5 |
| 3rd | ACM 1972 | Boston | 8 | Chess 3.6 |
| 4th | ACM 1973 | Atlanta | 12 | Chess 4.0 |
| 5th | ACM 1974 | San Diego | 12 | Ribbit |
| 6th | ACM 1975 | Minneapolis | 12 | Chess 4.4 |
| 7th | ACM 1976 | Houston | 11 | Chess 4.5 |
| 8th | ACM 1977 | Seattle | 12 | Chess 4.6 |
| 9th | ACM 1978 | Washington, D.C | 12 | Belle |
| 10th | ACM 1979 | Detroit | 12 | Chess 4.9 |
| 11th | ACM 1980 | Nashville | 10 | Belle |
| 12th | ACM 1981 | Los Angeles | 16 | Belle |
| 13th | ACM 1982 | Dallas | 14 | Belle |
| 14th | ACM 1983 (WCCC 1983) |
New York | 22 | Cray Blitz |
| 15th | ACM 1984 | San Francisco | 14 | Cray Blitz |
| 16th | ACM 1985 | Denver | 10 | HiTech |
| 17th | ACM 1986 | Dallas | 16 | Belle |
| 18th | ACM 1987 | Dallas | 13 | ChipTest |
| 19th | ACM 1988 | Orlando | 12 | Deep Thought |
| 20th | ACM 1989 | Reno | 10 | Deep Thought, HiTech |
| 21st | ACM 1990 | New York | 9 | Deep Thought |
| 22nd | ACM 1991 | Albuquerque | 12 | Deep Thought II |
| 23rd | ACM 1993 | Indianapolis | 12 | Socrates II |
| 24th | ACM 1994 | Cape May | 10 | Deep Thought II |
See also
Publications
- Jonathan Schaeffer (2019). Special Issue on Computer Chess Tournaments: The 50-Year Experiment. Call for Papers, ICGA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4
- Jonathan Schaeffer (2020). Fifty years of computer chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3
- Jonathan Schaeffer (2020). The 1970 United States computer chess championship: The start of the longest-running experiment in computer science history. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3
Forum Posts
- Some history by Bert Seifriz, CCC, March, 07, 1999
External Links
- North American Computer Chess Championship from Wikipedia
- North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
- ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
