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[[ACM|ACM's]] '''23rd North American Computer Chess Championship''' (NACCC) was held February 14-17, [[Timeline#1993|1993]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Indianapolis Hyatt Regency Indianapolis], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis%2C_Indiana Indianapolis], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana Indiana], USA. Throughout the tournament, [[Robert Levinson]] demonstrated his learning program [[Morph]] <ref>[[Robert Levinson]], [[John Amenta]] ('''1993'''). ''MORPH, An Experience-Based Adaptive Chess System''. [[ICGA Journal#16_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1]], reprinted in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cc6e9 The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1993_23rd_ACM_ICCC/1993%20ICCC.062303066.sm.pdf pdf]</ref>. [[Tony Marsland]] served as moderator of a panel discussion entitled "Computer Chess: What Remains?".

=Final Standing=
<ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php/historie/computer-computer/105-acm-1993 ACM 1993] [[CSVN]] site</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Name
! CC
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! 5
! P
! SOS
! SoDOS
|-
! 1
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Titan|Socrates II]] <ref>[[Larry Kaufman]] ('''1993'''). ''PC Software''. [[Computer Chess Reports]], Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9</ref>
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 12b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 6w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 10w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 7b1
! 4½
| style="text-align:center;" | 10½
| style="text-align:center;" | 8¾
|-
! 2
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Cray Blitz]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 9w1
| style="text-align:right;" | [[ACM 1993#MChessCrayBlitz|10b1]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 1w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 6b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 3b½
! 3½
| style="text-align:center;" | 14½
| style="text-align:center;" | 9½
|-
! 3
| style="text-align:left;" | [[StarTech|*Tech]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 5w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 10b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 11b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2w½
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 12½
| style="text-align:center;" | 7¼
|-
! 4
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Hitech|B*Hitech]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 11w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 3b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 5w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 6w1
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
| style="text-align:center;" | 6¼
|-
! 5
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Zarkov]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 3b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 11w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 7w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 10b1
! 3
| style="text-align:center;" | 11½
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
|-
! 6
| style="text-align:left;" | [[ChessMachine]] [[Gideon|Schroder]]
! NL
| style="text-align:right;" | 7w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b0
! 2½
| style="text-align:center;" | 16
| style="text-align:center;" | 6¾
|-
! 7
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Kallisto]]
! NL
| style="text-align:right;" | 6b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 12w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 9b½
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1w0
! 2½
| style="text-align:center;" | 12½
| style="text-align:center;" | 4¼
|-
! 8
| style="text-align:left;" | [[BP]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 10w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 9b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 6b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 4w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 12w1
! 2½
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
|-
! 9
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Now]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 2b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 7w½
| style="text-align:right;" | 12b1
| style="text-align:right;" | 11w1
! 2½
| style="text-align:center;" | 9½
| style="text-align:center;" | 2¼
|-
! 10
| style="text-align:left;" | [[MChess|M-Chess Pro]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 8b1
| style="text-align:right;" | [[ACM 1993#MChessCrayBlitz|2w0]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 3w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5w0
! 2
| style="text-align:center;" | 16½
| style="text-align:center;" | 5½
|-
! 11
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Bebe]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 4b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 12w1
| style="text-align:right;" | 3w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 9b0
! 1
| style="text-align:center;" | 11½
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
|-
! 12
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Innovation]]
! US
| style="text-align:right;" | 1w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 7b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 11b0
| style="text-align:right;" | 9w0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8b0
! 0
| style="text-align:center;" | 13
| style="text-align:center;" | 0
|}
* [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=
<ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cc6e9 The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1993_23rd_ACM_ICCC/1993%20ICCC.062303066.sm.pdf pdf]</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Program
! CC
! Team
! Hardware
! Language
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Bebe]]
! US
| [[Tony Scherzer]], [[Linda Scherzer]]
| SYS-10 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_slicing bit slice] hardware
| [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[BP]]
! US
| [[Robert Cullum]]
| [[x86|486/50]] [[IBM PC|PC]]
| [[C]], [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Hitech|B*Hitech]]
! US
| [[Hans Berliner]], [[Chris McConnell]],<br/>[[Carl Ebeling]]
| [[Sun#4|Sun-4]]<br/>special purpose hardware
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode Microcode], [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[ChessMachine]] [[Gideon|Schroder]]
! NL
| [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]], [[Jan Louwman]]
| [[IBM PC|Laptop]] with [[ARM2]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture ISA card]
| [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Cray Blitz]]
! US
| [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Albert Gower]],<br/>[[Harry Nelson]]
| [[Cray X-MP|Cray Y-MP-8]]
| [[Fortran]], [[C]], [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Innovation]]
! US
| [[Jeff Mallett]]
| [[Macintosh|Macintosh Quadra]] [[68040]]
| [[C]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Kallisto]]
! NL
| [[Bart Weststrate]], [[Franz van de Eng]]
| [[x86|486/50]] [[IBM PC|PC]]
| [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[MChess|M-Chess Pro]]
! US
| [[Marty Hirsch]]
| [[x86|486]] [[IBM PC|PC]]
| [[C]], [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Now]]
! US
| [[Mark Lefler]]
| [[x86|486]] [[IBM PC|PC]]
| [[Pascal]], [[Assembly]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Titan|Socrates II]]
! US
| [[Don Dailey]], [[Larry Kaufman]], <br/>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/c/o c/o] [[Julio Kaplan]]
| [[x86|486]] [[IBM PC|PC]]
| [[C]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[StarTech|*Tech]]
! US
| [[Bradley Kuszmaul]], [[Charles Leiserson]], <br/>[[Ryan Rifkin]]
| [[Connection Machine|Connection Machine CM-5]]
| [[C]]
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Zarkov]]
! US
| [[John Stanback]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_9000 HP 9000/835]
| [[C]]
|}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 CC Country Codes]
<span id="MChessCrayBlitz"></span>
=Selected Games=
Round 2, [[MChess|M-Chess Pro]] - [[Cray Blitz]] <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/56dc61ef0c7ef237 ACM 1993 23rd CCC game set] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], February 20, 1993</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52078 Computer evolution, a little game collection] by [[Vincent Lejeune]], [[CCC]], April 21, 2014</ref> <ref> The [[ACM 1993#MChessCrayBlitz|M-Chess Pro vs. Cray Blitz game]] was used by [[Robert Hyatt]] for 24 test positions to determine the [[Parallel Search|speedup]] of [[Dynamic Tree Splitting]], see [http://www.craftychess.com/hyatt/search.html The DTS high-performance parallel tree search algorithm] by [[Robert Hyatt]]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "ACM 1993"]
[Site "Indianapolis, IN USA"]
[Date "1993.02.14"]
[Round "2"]
[White "M-Chess Pro"]
[Black "Cray Blitz"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Bc4 gxf3 7.O-O d5 8.exd5 Bg4
9.Qd2 Na5 10.Bb5+ c6 11.Qxf4 Nf6 12.Re1+ Kd7 13.dxc6+ bxc6 14.Ne4 Nxe4 15.Qxg4+
Kc7 16.Rxe4 cxb5 17.Qxf3 Qd7 18.Rf4 Be7 19.Rxf7 Raf8 20.Bf4+ Kb6 21.Be5 Rhg8
22.c3 Nc6 23.Re1 Qe8 24.Rxf8 Qxf8 25.Qd5 Rg5 26.a4 bxa4 27.c4 Nxe5 28.Rxe5 Rxe5
29.Qxe5 Qd8 30.c5+ Kb5 31.Qe2+ Kb4 32.Qd3 Bf6 33.Qc3+ Kb5 34.Qd3+ Kc6 35.Qf3+
Kd7 36.Qe4 Qe7 37.Qb7+ Ke8 38.Qa8+ Qd8 39.Qc6+ Kf7 40.Qb7+ Kf8 41.d5 Qe7 42.Qb8+
Kf7 43.Kf1 Bxb2 44.g4 Bc3 45.Kf2 Qxc5+ 46.Kf1 Qc4+ 47.Kf2 Qd4+ 48.Kf3 Qd1+
49.Ke3 Bd2+ 50.Kf2 Qe1+ 51.Kg2 Qe2+ 0-1
</pre>

=Tournament Director=
* [[Michael Valvo|Mike Valvo]]
* [[Danny Kopec]] (Assistant)

=Publications=
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cc6e9 The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1993_23rd_ACM_ICCC/1993%20ICCC.062303066.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Michael Valvo]] ('''1993'''). ''The 23rd ACM International Computer-Chess Championship.'' [[ICGA Journal#16_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1]]
* [[Danny Kopec]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Michael Valvo]] ('''1994'''). ''The 23rd ACM NACCC in Indianapolis'', in [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cceea The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1994_24th_ICCC/1994%20ICCC.062303013.sm.pdf pdf]
* [[Larry Kaufman]] ('''1993'''). ''ACM International Computer Chess Championship''. [[Computer Chess Reports]], Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 2-4
* [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''1994'''). ''[https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=EJurXJ4AAAAJ&cstart=40&citation_for_view=EJurXJ4AAAAJ:TQgYirikUcIC The Principle of Pressure in Chess]''. TAINN 1994

=Forum Posts=
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/45699b80a93fde41 1993 ACM International Computer Chess Championship (with corrections)] by [[Bradley Kuszmaul]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], February 19, 1993
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/6750c53c4444707d ACM 1993 Computer Tournament] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], February 20, 1993
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/56dc61ef0c7ef237 ACM 1993 23rd CCC game set] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], February 20, 1993
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52078 Computer evolution, a little game collection] by [[Vincent Lejeune]], [[CCC]], April 21, 2014 <ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1004311 Computer evolution] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]</ref>

=External Links=
* [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php/historie/computer-computer/105-acm-1993 ACM 1993] [[CSVN]] site
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=References=
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