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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Tournaments and Matches|Tournaments]] * [[American Microcomputer Chess Tournaments]] * MCCT 1978'''
[[FILE:SanJoseCC.JPG|border|right|thumb| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_Convention_Center San Jose Convention Center] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 3, February 10, 1978, pg. 17</ref> ]]
'''MCCT 1978''',<br/>
the World's '''First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''' took place from March 3-5, [[Timeline#1978|1978]], during the Second [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Computer_Faire West Coast Computer Faire], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_Convention_Center San Jose Convention Center], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California San Jose, California]. At the [[ACM 1977]], [[David Levy]] made the suggestion to organize a Microcomputer Chess Tournament to [[Douglas Penrod]], editor of the [[ICGA Journal#ComputerChessNewsletter|Computer Chess Newsletter]] <ref>[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2_11 Computer Chess Tournaments] in [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1982, 1983'''). ''All About Chess and Computers''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Chess-Computers-Levy/dp/3540119329 amazon, 2nd edition]</ref> . 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_%28computer_specialist%29 Jim Warren] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_%28computer_specialist%29 Jim Warren] ('''1978'''). ''Microcomputer Chess Tournament Announcement''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 2, January 24, 1978, pg. 4</ref> <ref>[ftp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/computerFaire/SiliconGulchGazette/ Silicon Gulch Gazette] from [http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ bitsavers.org]</ref> . [[Larry Wagner]], at that time affiliated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation Atari], served as tournament director. The winning program, called [[Sargon]], was a 16 Kbyte [[Z80|Z-80]] [[Assembly|assembler]] program written by a husband and wife team, [[Kathe Spracklen|Kathe]] and [[Dan Spracklen]] <ref>[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/ The Second West Coast Computer Faire | Modern Mechanix]</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/trustee/gardner-hendrie Gardner Hendrie] ('''2005'''). ''Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen''. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/spracklen.oral_history_transcript.2005.102630821.pdf pdf] and [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/index.php?iid=orl-43343fb422232 Video] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> .
=Final Standing=
<ref>[[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Program
! R1
! R2
! R3
! R4
! R5
! R6
! P
! Class
|-
! 1
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Sargon]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_1
! 5
| style="text-align:right;" | A - 1
|-
! 2
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Commodore ChessMate]]
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_1
! 3
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 1
|-
! 3
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Boris]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_½
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_0
| style="text-align:right;" | bye½
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_1
! 3
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 1
|-
! 4
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chess Challenger]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_0
! 3
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 1
|-
! 5
| style="text-align:left;" | [[8080 Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_0
! 2½
| style="text-align:right;" | A - 2
|-
! 6
| style="text-align:left;" | [[SD Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 11_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_1
! 2
| style="text-align:right;" | C - 1
|-
! 7
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Tenberg Basic Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 11_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_0
! 2
| style="text-align:right;" | C - 1
|-
! 8
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Steve Stuart Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_½
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
! 1½
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 2
|-
! 9
| style="text-align:left;" | [[CompuChess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
! 1½
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 2
|-
! 10
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Compucolor Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 11_1
! 1
| style="text-align:right;" | A - 3
|-
! 11
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Mark Watson Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_0
! 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 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=
[[FILE:SD-Chess.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal]]
[[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter's]] [[SD Chess]] <ref>[http://www.amazon.com/The-BYTE-Book-Computer-Music/dp/0070430977 Chris Morgan] ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]], hosted by [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ Modern Mechanix], Photo 4: [[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter’s]] [[SD Chess|chess playing system]] display, which competed in the Microcomputer Chess Tournament at the Faire</ref>
=Publications=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_%28computer_specialist%29 Jim Warren] ('''1978'''). ''Microcomputer Chess Tournament Announcement''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 2, January 24, 1978, pp. 4
* [[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9
* [[Douglas Penrod]] ('''1978'''). ''Micro chess tourney''. [[Personal Computing#2_5|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5]], pp. 112
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-BYTE-Book-Computer-Music/dp/0070430977 Chris Morgan] ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]]
* [[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''San Jose Micro Tournament''. [[Personal Computing#2_8|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8]], pp. 87
* Editor ('''1978'''). ''Some San Jose Color''. [[Personal Computing#2_9|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9]], pp. 82 » [[Compucolor Chess]], [[Steve Stuart Chess]]
* Editor ('''1978'''). ''Chessboard fray at Jose Color''. [[Personal Computing#2_10|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10]], pp. 84 » [[8080 Chess]], [[Sargon]]
* [[Kathe Spracklen]] ('''1979'''). ''The Playing of Sargon''. [[Personal Computing#3_1|Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1]], pp. 70 » [[Sargon]]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/trustee/gardner-hendrie Gardner Hendrie] ('''2005'''). ''Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen''. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/spracklen.oral_history_transcript.2005.102630821.pdf pdf] and [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/index.php?iid=orl-43343fb422232 Video] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[Rob van Son]] ('''2011'''). ''De Assyrische krijgsman die vaak won!'' (Dutch) [http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/10-2011,%20Rob%20van%20Son,%20De%20Assyrische%20krijgsman%20die%20vaak%20won.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]]
=External Links=
* [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/ The Second West Coast Computer Faire | Modern Mechanix]
=References=
<references />
'''[[American Microcomputer Chess Tournaments|Up one level]]'''
[[FILE:SanJoseCC.JPG|border|right|thumb| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_Convention_Center San Jose Convention Center] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 3, February 10, 1978, pg. 17</ref> ]]
'''MCCT 1978''',<br/>
the World's '''First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''' took place from March 3-5, [[Timeline#1978|1978]], during the Second [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Computer_Faire West Coast Computer Faire], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_Convention_Center San Jose Convention Center], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California San Jose, California]. At the [[ACM 1977]], [[David Levy]] made the suggestion to organize a Microcomputer Chess Tournament to [[Douglas Penrod]], editor of the [[ICGA Journal#ComputerChessNewsletter|Computer Chess Newsletter]] <ref>[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2_11 Computer Chess Tournaments] in [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1982, 1983'''). ''All About Chess and Computers''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], [http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Chess-Computers-Levy/dp/3540119329 amazon, 2nd edition]</ref> . 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_%28computer_specialist%29 Jim Warren] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_%28computer_specialist%29 Jim Warren] ('''1978'''). ''Microcomputer Chess Tournament Announcement''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 2, January 24, 1978, pg. 4</ref> <ref>[ftp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/computerFaire/SiliconGulchGazette/ Silicon Gulch Gazette] from [http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ bitsavers.org]</ref> . [[Larry Wagner]], at that time affiliated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation Atari], served as tournament director. The winning program, called [[Sargon]], was a 16 Kbyte [[Z80|Z-80]] [[Assembly|assembler]] program written by a husband and wife team, [[Kathe Spracklen|Kathe]] and [[Dan Spracklen]] <ref>[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/ The Second West Coast Computer Faire | Modern Mechanix]</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/trustee/gardner-hendrie Gardner Hendrie] ('''2005'''). ''Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen''. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/spracklen.oral_history_transcript.2005.102630821.pdf pdf] and [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/index.php?iid=orl-43343fb422232 Video] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> .
=Final Standing=
<ref>[[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Program
! R1
! R2
! R3
! R4
! R5
! R6
! P
! Class
|-
! 1
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Sargon]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_1
! 5
| style="text-align:right;" | A - 1
|-
! 2
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Commodore ChessMate]]
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_1
! 3
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 1
|-
! 3
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Boris]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_½
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_0
| style="text-align:right;" | bye½
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_1
! 3
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 1
|-
! 4
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chess Challenger]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_0
! 3
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 1
|-
! 5
| style="text-align:left;" | [[8080 Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_0
! 2½
| style="text-align:right;" | A - 2
|-
! 6
| style="text-align:left;" | [[SD Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 9_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 11_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_1
! 2
| style="text-align:right;" | C - 1
|-
! 7
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Tenberg Basic Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 11_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_0
! 2
| style="text-align:right;" | C - 1
|-
! 8
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Steve Stuart Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_1
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_½
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 4_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
! 1½
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 2
|-
! 9
| style="text-align:left;" | [[CompuChess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 1_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_1
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 2_½
| style="text-align:right;" | 3_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
! 1½
| style="text-align:right;" | B - 2
|-
! 10
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Compucolor Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 8_0
| style="text-align:right;" | 5_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 11_1
! 1
| style="text-align:right;" | A - 3
|-
! 11
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Mark Watson Chess]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 7_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 6_0
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" | 10_0
! 0
| style="text-align:right;" | 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=
[[FILE:SD-Chess.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal]]
[[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter's]] [[SD Chess]] <ref>[http://www.amazon.com/The-BYTE-Book-Computer-Music/dp/0070430977 Chris Morgan] ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]], hosted by [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ Modern Mechanix], Photo 4: [[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter’s]] [[SD Chess|chess playing system]] display, which competed in the Microcomputer Chess Tournament at the Faire</ref>
=Publications=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_%28computer_specialist%29 Jim Warren] ('''1978'''). ''Microcomputer Chess Tournament Announcement''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 2, January 24, 1978, pp. 4
* [[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9
* [[Douglas Penrod]] ('''1978'''). ''Micro chess tourney''. [[Personal Computing#2_5|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5]], pp. 112
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-BYTE-Book-Computer-Music/dp/0070430977 Chris Morgan] ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#307|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]]
* [[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''San Jose Micro Tournament''. [[Personal Computing#2_8|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8]], pp. 87
* Editor ('''1978'''). ''Some San Jose Color''. [[Personal Computing#2_9|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9]], pp. 82 » [[Compucolor Chess]], [[Steve Stuart Chess]]
* Editor ('''1978'''). ''Chessboard fray at Jose Color''. [[Personal Computing#2_10|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10]], pp. 84 » [[8080 Chess]], [[Sargon]]
* [[Kathe Spracklen]] ('''1979'''). ''The Playing of Sargon''. [[Personal Computing#3_1|Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1]], pp. 70 » [[Sargon]]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/trustee/gardner-hendrie Gardner Hendrie] ('''2005'''). ''Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen''. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/spracklen.oral_history_transcript.2005.102630821.pdf pdf] and [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/related_materials/oral-history/spacklen.oral_history.2005.102630821/index.php?iid=orl-43343fb422232 Video] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[Rob van Son]] ('''2011'''). ''De Assyrische krijgsman die vaak won!'' (Dutch) [http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/10-2011,%20Rob%20van%20Son,%20De%20Assyrische%20krijgsman%20die%20vaak%20won.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]]
=External Links=
* [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/ The Second West Coast Computer Faire | Modern Mechanix]
=References=
<references />
'''[[American Microcomputer Chess Tournaments|Up one level]]'''
