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Hyatt Regency

The ACM's Seventh North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held on October 19 to 21, 1976 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Houston, Texas, USA .

Final Standing

#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	P	SOS	SoDOS	G
1	Chess 4.5	US	6b1	5w1	3b1	2w1	4	10	10	4
2	CHAOS	US	8w1	7b1	5w1	1b0	3	10	6	4
3	Black Knight	US	9w1	10b1	1w0	7b1	3	8	4	4
4	Blitz 4	US	5b0	bye1	9w1	6w1	3	5	3	3
5	Duchess	US	4w1	1b0	2b0	11w1	2	11	4	4
6	Wita	CA	1w0	9b1	8w1	4b0	2	10	3	4
7	Chute 1.2	CA	11b1	2w0	10b1	3w0	2	8	2	4
8	L'Excentrique	CA	2b0	11w1	6b0	10w1	2	7	2	4
9	ETAOIN SHRDLU	US	3b0	6w0	4b0	bye1	1	8	0	3
10	Chesstar	US	bye1	3w0	7w0	8b0	1	7	0	3
11	Xenarbor 4	US	7w0	8b0	bye1	5b0	1	6	0	3

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
• SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

Participants

Name	CC	Authors	Organization	Hardware
Black Knight	US	Fred Prouse, Kenn Sogge, Gary Maltzen, Lonny Lebahn	Sperry Univac	UNIVAC 1100
Blitz 4	US	Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower	University of Southern Mississippi	XDS Sigma 9
CHAOS	US	Mike Alexander, Victor Berman, Ira Ruben, Fred Swartz, William Toikka, Joe Winograd	University of Michigan	UNIVAC 1108
Chess 4.5	US	David Slate, Larry Atkin	Northwestern University	CDC Cyber 175
Chesstar	US	Lincoln Shannon		Honeywell x16
Chute 1.2	CA	Michael Valenti, Zvonko Vranesic	University of Toronto	Amdahl
Duchess	US	Eric Jensen, Tom Truscott, Bruce Wright	Duke University	IBM 370
ETAOIN SHRDLU	US	Garth Courtois Jr.	Michigan State University	Nova 1200
L'Excentrique	CA	Claude Jarry	McGill University	AMDAHL 470V/7
Wita	CA	Tony Marsland	University of Alberta	Amdahl
Xenarbor 4	US	Donald Miller	Control Data	IBM 370/158

• CC Country Codes

Selected Games

Round 4, Chess 4.5 - CHAOS

[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

Tournament Director

• David Levy

Reports

• Chess Becomes Mechanized, Hays Daily News, October 31, 1976, pp. 12
• Computer experts seek unit to win at chess, The Daily Chronicle from De Kalb, Illinois, November 1, 1976, pp. 22
• David Levy (1977). 1976 US Computer Chess Championship. Computer Science Press, Woodland Hills, CA

External Links

• ACM 1976 CSVN site
• North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
• ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall

References

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