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[[FILE:HyattHoustonTX.JPG|border|right|thumb| Hyatt Regency <ref>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HyattHoustonTX.JPG Hyatt Regency Houston] designed by [[Arts#Portman|John Portman]], Photo by [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WhisperToMe WhisperToMe], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Houston Hyatt Regency Houston from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
The [[ACM|ACM's]] '''Seventh North American Computer Chess Championship''' (NACCC) was held on October 19 to 21, [[Timeline#1976|1976]] at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Houston Hyatt Regency Hotel] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%2C_Texas Houston], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas Texas], USA <ref>[http://portalparts.acm.org/1050000/1045264/fm/frontmatter.pdf SIGART Newsletter No. 58, June 1976 - 7th U.S. Computer Chess Championship] (pdf)</ref> .
=Final Standing=
<ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php/historie/computer-computer/89-acm-1976 ACM 1976] [[CSVN]] site</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Program
! CC
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! P
! SOS
! SoDOS
! G
|-
! 1
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 6b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 5w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 3b1
| style="text-align:center;" | [[ACM 1976#ChessCHAOS76|2w1]]
! 4
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 2
| style="text-align:left;" | [[CHAOS]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 8w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 7b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 5w1
| style="text-align:center;" | [[ACM 1976#ChessCHAOS76|1b0]]
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 3
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Black Knight]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 9w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 10b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 1w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 7b1
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 4
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Blitz|Blitz 4]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 5b0
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
| style="text-align:center;" | 9w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 6w1
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|-
! 5
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Duchess]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 4w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 1b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 2b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 11w1
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 6
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Awit|Wita]]
! CA
| style="text-align:center;" | 1w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 9b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 8w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 4b0
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 7
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chute|Chute 1.2]]
! CA
| style="text-align:center;" | 11b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 2w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 10b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 3w0
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 8
| style="text-align:left;" | [[L'Excentrique]]
! CA
| style="text-align:center;" | 2b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 11w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 6b0
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Chesstar#LExChesstar|10w1]]
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 9
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Etaoin Shrdlu]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 3b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 6w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 4b0
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
! 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|-
! 10
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chesstar]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
| style="text-align:center;" | 3w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 7w0
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Chesstar#LExChesstar|8b0]]
! 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|-
! 11
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Xenarbor|Xenarbor 4]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 7w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 8b0
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
| style="text-align:center;" | 5b0
! 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
* SOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_system Sum of Opponent Scores]
* SoDOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadtl_score Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores]
=Participants=
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! CC
! Authors
! Organization
! Hardware
|-
| [[Black Knight]]
! US
| [[Fred Prouse]], [[Kenn Sogge]],<br/>[[Gary Maltzen]], [[Lonny Lebahn]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC Sperry Univac]
| [[UNIVAC 1100]]
|-
| [[Blitz|Blitz 4]]
! US
| [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Albert Gower]]
| [[University of Southern Mississippi]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series#32-bit_systems XDS Sigma 9]
|-
| [[CHAOS]]
! US
| [[Mike Alexander]], [[Victor Berman]], [[Ira Ruben]],<br/>[[Fred Swartz]], [[William Toikka]], [[Joe Winograd]]
| [[University of Michigan]]
| [[UNIVAC 1100|UNIVAC 1108]]
|-
| [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]]
! US
| [[David Slate]], [[Larry Atkin]]
| [[Northwestern University]]
| [[CDC Cyber|CDC Cyber 175]]
|-
| [[Chesstar]]
! US
| [[Lincoln Shannon]]
|
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 Honeywell x16]
|-
| [[Chute|Chute 1.2]]
! CA
| [[Michael Valenti]], [[Zvonko Vranesic]]
| [[University of Toronto]]
| [[AMDAHL 470|Amdahl]]
|-
| [[Duchess]]
! US
| [[Eric Jensen]], [[Tom Truscott]], [[Bruce Wright]]
| [[Duke University]]
| [[IBM 370]]
|-
| [[Etaoin Shrdlu]]
! US
| [[Garth Courtois Jr.]]
| [[Michigan State University]]
| [[Nova#1200|Nova 1200]]
|-
| [[L'Excentrique]]
! CA
| [[Claude Jarry]]
| [[McGill University]]
| [[AMDAHL 470|AMDAHL 470V/7]]
|-
| [[Awit|Wita]]
! CA
| [[Tony Marsland]]
| [[University of Alberta]]
| [[AMDAHL 470|Amdahl]]
|-
| [[Xenarbor|Xenarbor 4]]
! US
| [[Donald Miller]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Corporation Control Data]
| [[IBM 370|IBM 370/158]]
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
<span id="ChessCHAOS76"></span>
=Selected Games=
Round 4, [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]] - [[CHAOS]] <ref>[http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm Important games - The North American Championship] hosted by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]]</ref>
<pre>
[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
</pre>
=Tournament Director=
* [[David Levy]]
=Reports=
* [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1711384/ Chess Becomes Mechanized], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Daily_News Hays Daily News], October 31, 1976, pp. 12
* [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123462110/ Computer experts seek unit to win at chess], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Chronicle_(Illinois) The Daily Chronicle] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeKalb,_Illinois De Kalb, Illinois], November 1, 1976, pp. 22
* [[David Levy]] ('''1977'''). ''1976 US Computer Chess Championship''. Computer Science Press, Woodland Hills, CA
=External Links=
* [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php/historie/computer-computer/89-acm-1976 ACM 1976] [[CSVN]] site
{{ACM Include}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|Up one level]]'''
'''[[ACM 1975|< Prev]] [[ACM 1977|Next >]]'''
[[FILE:HyattHoustonTX.JPG|border|right|thumb| Hyatt Regency <ref>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HyattHoustonTX.JPG Hyatt Regency Houston] designed by [[Arts#Portman|John Portman]], Photo by [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WhisperToMe WhisperToMe], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Houston Hyatt Regency Houston from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
The [[ACM|ACM's]] '''Seventh North American Computer Chess Championship''' (NACCC) was held on October 19 to 21, [[Timeline#1976|1976]] at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Houston Hyatt Regency Hotel] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%2C_Texas Houston], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas Texas], USA <ref>[http://portalparts.acm.org/1050000/1045264/fm/frontmatter.pdf SIGART Newsletter No. 58, June 1976 - 7th U.S. Computer Chess Championship] (pdf)</ref> .
=Final Standing=
<ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php/historie/computer-computer/89-acm-1976 ACM 1976] [[CSVN]] site</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Program
! CC
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! P
! SOS
! SoDOS
! G
|-
! 1
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 6b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 5w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 3b1
| style="text-align:center;" | [[ACM 1976#ChessCHAOS76|2w1]]
! 4
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 2
| style="text-align:left;" | [[CHAOS]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 8w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 7b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 5w1
| style="text-align:center;" | [[ACM 1976#ChessCHAOS76|1b0]]
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 3
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Black Knight]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 9w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 10b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 1w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 7b1
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 4
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Blitz|Blitz 4]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 5b0
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
| style="text-align:center;" | 9w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 6w1
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|-
! 5
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Duchess]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 4w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 1b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 2b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 11w1
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 6
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Awit|Wita]]
! CA
| style="text-align:center;" | 1w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 9b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 8w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 4b0
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 7
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chute|Chute 1.2]]
! CA
| style="text-align:center;" | 11b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 2w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 10b1
| style="text-align:center;" | 3w0
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 8
| style="text-align:left;" | [[L'Excentrique]]
! CA
| style="text-align:center;" | 2b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 11w1
| style="text-align:center;" | 6b0
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Chesstar#LExChesstar|10w1]]
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:right;" | 4
|-
! 9
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Etaoin Shrdlu]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 3b0
| style="text-align:center;" | 6w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 4b0
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
! 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|-
! 10
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chesstar]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
| style="text-align:center;" | 3w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 7w0
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Chesstar#LExChesstar|8b0]]
! 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|-
! 11
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Xenarbor|Xenarbor 4]]
! US
| style="text-align:center;" | 7w0
| style="text-align:center;" | 8b0
| style="text-align:center;" | '''''bye1'''''
| style="text-align:center;" | 5b0
! 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
* SOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_system Sum of Opponent Scores]
* SoDOS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadtl_score Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores]
=Participants=
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! CC
! Authors
! Organization
! Hardware
|-
| [[Black Knight]]
! US
| [[Fred Prouse]], [[Kenn Sogge]],<br/>[[Gary Maltzen]], [[Lonny Lebahn]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC Sperry Univac]
| [[UNIVAC 1100]]
|-
| [[Blitz|Blitz 4]]
! US
| [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Albert Gower]]
| [[University of Southern Mississippi]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series#32-bit_systems XDS Sigma 9]
|-
| [[CHAOS]]
! US
| [[Mike Alexander]], [[Victor Berman]], [[Ira Ruben]],<br/>[[Fred Swartz]], [[William Toikka]], [[Joe Winograd]]
| [[University of Michigan]]
| [[UNIVAC 1100|UNIVAC 1108]]
|-
| [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]]
! US
| [[David Slate]], [[Larry Atkin]]
| [[Northwestern University]]
| [[CDC Cyber|CDC Cyber 175]]
|-
| [[Chesstar]]
! US
| [[Lincoln Shannon]]
|
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 Honeywell x16]
|-
| [[Chute|Chute 1.2]]
! CA
| [[Michael Valenti]], [[Zvonko Vranesic]]
| [[University of Toronto]]
| [[AMDAHL 470|Amdahl]]
|-
| [[Duchess]]
! US
| [[Eric Jensen]], [[Tom Truscott]], [[Bruce Wright]]
| [[Duke University]]
| [[IBM 370]]
|-
| [[Etaoin Shrdlu]]
! US
| [[Garth Courtois Jr.]]
| [[Michigan State University]]
| [[Nova#1200|Nova 1200]]
|-
| [[L'Excentrique]]
! CA
| [[Claude Jarry]]
| [[McGill University]]
| [[AMDAHL 470|AMDAHL 470V/7]]
|-
| [[Awit|Wita]]
! CA
| [[Tony Marsland]]
| [[University of Alberta]]
| [[AMDAHL 470|Amdahl]]
|-
| [[Xenarbor|Xenarbor 4]]
! US
| [[Donald Miller]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Corporation Control Data]
| [[IBM 370|IBM 370/158]]
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
<span id="ChessCHAOS76"></span>
=Selected Games=
Round 4, [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]] - [[CHAOS]] <ref>[http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm Important games - The North American Championship] hosted by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]]</ref>
<pre>
[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
</pre>
=Tournament Director=
* [[David Levy]]
=Reports=
* [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1711384/ Chess Becomes Mechanized], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Daily_News Hays Daily News], October 31, 1976, pp. 12
* [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123462110/ Computer experts seek unit to win at chess], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Chronicle_(Illinois) The Daily Chronicle] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeKalb,_Illinois De Kalb, Illinois], November 1, 1976, pp. 22
* [[David Levy]] ('''1977'''). ''1976 US Computer Chess Championship''. Computer Science Press, Woodland Hills, CA
=External Links=
* [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php/historie/computer-computer/89-acm-1976 ACM 1976] [[CSVN]] site
{{ACM Include}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|Up one level]]'''
