Tournaments and Matches

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=World Championships=
 * World Computer Chess Championship
 * World Chess Software Championship
 * World Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship
 * ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship

=Major Computer Chess Tournaments=
 * ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championship
 * ACM North American Computer Chess Championship
 * Australasian National Computer Chess Championship
 * Computer Chess Championship of CIS Countries
 * CSVN Programmers Tournament
 * Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship
 * European Computer Chess Championship
 * French Computer Chess Championship
 * French Programmers Tournament
 * Hungarian Chessprogram Open
 * International CSVN Tournament
 * International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship
 * Italian Computer Chess Championship
 * Polish Computer Chess Championship
 * Spanish Computer Chess Championship
 * The Chess Programmers Tournament
 * Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship
 * United States Open Computer Chess Championship

= Online Computer Chess Tournaments=
 * ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championship
 * ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship
 * CCT Tournaments
 * CSVN Open Internet Tournament
 * International Gsei Web Tournaments
 * Online Engine Blitz Tourneys

= Microcomputer Chess Tournaments=
 * American Microcomputer Chess Tournaments
 * European Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * Various Microcomputer Chess Tournaments
 * World Microcomputer Chess Championship

=Various Tournaments=
 * First GI Computer Chess Tournament Dortmund 1975
 * Jerusalem CC Tournament 1978
 * International Computer Chess Tournament 1984 in Baarn, The Netherlands
 * Canadian Computer Chess Invitational Championship 1984
 * First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988
 * First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament 2001

=Private Tournaments=
 * Keck's Tournaments
 * TCEC

=Computer-Computer Matches=
 * Stanford-ITEP Match
 * Shredder versus Hydra 2004
 * Deep Fritz versus Deep Junior 2007
 * Zappa versus Rybka 2007

=Man Computer Tournaments=
 * Aegon Tournaments
 * Harvard Cup
 * Aubervilliers Rapid Open
 * Netherlands-vs-Computers-1989
 * ANU Carbon-Silicon Tournaments 1994
 * Human vs. Computer Match in Finland, 1996
 * Man vs Machine Team Championship (2004 and 2005)

= Man Computer Matches=
 * Carl Wagner versus Robert Q, 1967 (1 - 0)
 * Levy versus Chess 4.7 1978 (3½ - 1½)
 * Levy versus Cray Blitz 1984 (4 - 0)
 * Kasparov Simul vs 32 Micros Hamburg 1985
 * Kasparov versus Deep Thought 1989 (2 - 0)
 * Levy versus Deep Thought 1989 (0 - 4)
 * Bent Larsen vs Deep Blue, Copenhagen 1993 (2½ - 2½)
 * Judit Polgar vs Deep Blue 1993 (½ - 1½)
 * Kasparov versus Chess Genius, 25 min, 1994 (½ - 1½)
 * Kasparov versus Deep Blue, Philadelphia 1996 (4 - 2)
 * David Bronstein vs MChess Pro, 1996 (1½ - ½)
 * Kasparov versus Deep Blue, New York 1997 (2½ - 3½)
 * HIARCS 6.0 defeated I.M. Deen Hergott 4-2 in 1997
 * Rebel vs Yusupov, Ischia 1997 (10½ - 6½)
 * Rebel vs Anand, Italy 1998 (5-3)
 * Rebel Monthly GM challenge (Various opponents) 1999-2000
 * GM John van der Wiel vs REBEL 2001 (2½ - 3½)
 * GM Loek van Wely vs REBEL, Maastricht February 2002 (2 - 2)
 * Christiansen vs Chessmaster 9000 September 2002 (1½ - 2½)
 * Kramnik vs Deep Fritz, Bahrain, October 2002 (4 - 4)
 * Bareev versus HIARCS 2003 (2 - 2)
 * Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003 (3 - 3)
 * Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003 (2-2)
 * Peter Heine Nielsen - ChessBrain, January 2004 (½ - ½)
 * Adams vs Hydra, London June 2005 (½ - 5½)
 * Kramnik versus Deep Fritz, Bonn December 2006 (2 - 4)
 * Rybka odds matches vs grandmasters 2007-2008
 * GM+Rybka vs. Stockfish 2014
 * Komodo handicap matches 2015-2016, various opponents, adjusted handicaps
 * Komodo vs Nakamura, four-game odds match 2016 (2½ - 1½)
 * Analyses on Youtube

=Computer Games Tournaments=
 * Computer Olympiad
 * TAAI
 * TCGA

=See also=
 * Engine Rating Lists
 * Match Statistics
 * Tournament Manager

=Publications=
 * Ben Mittman (1977). A Brief History of Computer Chess Tournaments: 1970-1975. Chess Skill in Man and Machine
 * Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. [Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, amazon
 * bejDeepBlue.jpg

=Forum Posts=
 * XBoard and epd tournament by Vlad Stamate, CCC, January 31, 2010 » Chess Engine Communication Protocol, Engine Testing
 * To MODERATORS: Please STOP moving genuine tournaments! by Dr. Torsten Schoop, CCC, May 23, 2016
 * sprt tourney manager by Richard Delorme, CCC, January 24, 2017 » Amoeba Tournament Manager, SPRT
 * What is a Match? by Henk van den Belt, CCC, September 01, 2017

=External Links=

Tournaments

 * ICGA Tournaments
 * Important games hosted by Ed Schröder
 * Chess tournament from Wikipedia
 * Human-computer chess matches from Wikipedia

Swiss System

 * Swiss-system tournament from Wikipedia
 * Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments from Wikipedia
 * Buchholz system from Wikipedia (SOS)
 * Neustadtl score from Wikipedia (SODos)
 * Sonneborn-Berger score (non-Neustadtl) from Wikipedia

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