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MCCT 1978,
the World's First Microcomputer Chess Tournament took place from March 3-5, 1978, during the Second West Coast Computer Faire, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California. At the ACM 1977, David Levy made the suggestion to organize a Microcomputer Chess Tournament to Douglas Penrod, editor of the Computer Chess Newsletter [2] . Therefor, the Second West Coast Computer Faire hosted the event, announced January 1978 in the Silicon Gulch Gazette, a free publication associated with the Faire, edited by Jim Warren [3] [4] . Larry Wagner, at that time affiliated with Atari, served as tournament director. The winning program, called Sargon, was a 16 Kbyte Z-80 assembler program written by a husband and wife team, Kathe and Dan Spracklen [5] [6] .

Final Standing

[7]

# Program R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 P Class
1 Sargon 9_1 4_1 5_1 2_1 8_1 5 A - 1
2 Commodore ChessMate 8_½ 3_1 9_½ 1_0 5_1 3 B - 1
3 Boris 5_½ 2_0 bye½ 9_1 4_1 3 B - 1
4 Chess Challenger 6_1 1_0 8_1 7_1 3_0 3 B - 1
5 8080 Chess 3_½ 10_1 1_0 8_1 2_0 A - 2
6 SD Chess 4_0 9_0 11_1 7_1 2 C - 1
7 Tenberg Basic Chess 11_1 10_1 4_0 6_0 2 C - 1
8 Steve Stuart Chess 10_1 2_½ 4_0 5_0 1_0 B - 2
9 CompuChess 1_0 6_1 2_½ 3_0 B - 2
10 Compucolor Chess 8_0 5_0 7_0 11_1 1 A - 3
11 Mark Watson Chess 7_0 6_0 10_0 0 C - 2
  • Class A Microcomputers with 8K or more of memory
  • Class B Microcomputers with less than 8K of memory
  • Class C Programs running in Basic

SD Chess

SD-Chess.JPG

Ira Baxter's SD Chess [8]

Publications

External Links

References

  1. Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 3, February 10, 1978, pg. 17
  2. Computer Chess Tournaments in David Levy, Monroe Newborn (1982, 1983). All About Chess and Computers. Springer, amazon, 2nd edition
  3. Jim Warren (1978). Microcomputer Chess Tournament Announcement. Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 2, January 24, 1978, pg. 4
  4. Silicon Gulch Gazette from bitsavers.org
  5. The Second West Coast Computer Faire | Modern Mechanix
  6. Gardner Hendrie (2005). Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen. pdf and Video from The Computer History Museum
  7. Larry Wagner (1978). Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament. Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9
  8. Chris Morgan (1978). The Second West Coast Computer Faire. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7, hosted by Modern Mechanix, Photo 4: Ira Baxter’s chess playing system display, which competed in the Microcomputer Chess Tournament at the Faire

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