MCCT 1978

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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. 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. 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.

=Final Standing=
 * 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= Ira Baxter's SD Chess

=Publications=
 * Jim Warren (1978). Microcomputer Chess Tournament Announcement. Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 2, January 24, 1978, pp. 4
 * Larry Wagner (1978). Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament. Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9
 * Douglas Penrod (1978). Micro chess tourney. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 112
 * Chris Morgan (1978). The Second West Coast Computer Faire. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7
 * Larry Wagner (1978). San Jose Micro Tournament. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 87
 * Editor (1978). Some San Jose Color. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 82 » Compucolor Chess, Steve Stuart Chess
 * Editor (1978). Chessboard fray at Jose Color. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp. 84 » 8080 Chess, Sargon
 * Kathe Spracklen (1979). The Playing of Sargon. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 70 » Sargon
 * Gardner Hendrie (2005). Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen. pdf and Video from The Computer History Museum
 * Rob van Son (2011). De Assyrische krijgsman die vaak won! (Dutch) pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis

=External Links=
 * The Second West Coast Computer Faire | Modern Mechanix

=References=

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