ACM 1984
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The ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) took place from October 7-9, 1984 at the Imperial Ballroom of the Hilton San Francisco and Tower Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Contents
Final Standing
# | Program | CC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | P | SOS | SoDOS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Cray Blitz | US | 3w1 | 4b1 | 2w1 | 6b1 | 4 | 11 | 11 |
2 | Bebe | US | 12b1 | 10w1 | 1b0 | 8w1 | 3 | 8½ | 4½ |
3 | Fidelity X | US | 1b0 | 11w1 | 9b1 | 10w1 | 3 | 8½ | 4½ |
4 | CHAOS | US | 11b1 | 1w0 | 13b1 | 7w1 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
5 | Belle | US | 7b½ | 6w0 | 12b1 | 13w1 | 2½ | 6 | 3 |
6 | Nuchess | US | 8w½ | 5b1 | 7w½ | 1w0 | 2 | 10½ | 4½ |
7 | Phoenix | CA | 5w½ | 9w1 | 6b½ | 4b0 | 2 | 9½ | 4¼ |
8 | Novag X | US | 6b½ | 12w1 | 10b½ | 2b0 | 2 | 7½ | 2¾ |
9 | Intelligent Chess Software | GB | 13b1 | 7b0 | 3w0 | 11w1 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
10 | Schach 2.7 | DE | 14w1 | 2b0 | 8w½ | 3b0 | 1½ | 8 | 1 |
11 | Ostrich | CA | 4w0 | 3b0 | 14w1 | 9b0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
12 | Awit | CA | 2w0 | 8b0 | 5w0 | 14b1 | 1 | 7½ | 0 |
13 | Merlin | AT | 9w0 | 14b1 | 4w0 | 5b0 | 1 | 7½ | 0 |
14 | Xenarbor | US | 10b0 | 13w0 | 11b0 | 12w0 | 0 | 4½ | 0 |
Participants
Program | CC | Team | Hardware | Language |
---|---|---|---|---|
Awit | CA | Tony Marsland | Amdahl 5860/2 | Algol W |
Bebe | US | Tony Scherzer | Bit slice chess hardware | Assembly |
Belle | US | Ken Thompson, Joe Condon | PDP-11/23 + special hardware | C |
CHAOS | US | Mike Alexander, Fred Swartz, Jack O’Keefe, Victor Berman |
Amdahl 5860 | Fortran |
Cray Blitz | US | Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower, Harry Nelson |
Cray X-MP4 | Fortran, CAL |
Fidelity X | US | Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Boris Baczynskyj |
6502 system | Assembly |
Intelligent Chess Software | GB | Mark Taylor, Richard Lang, David Levy, Kevin O’Connell |
6502 Apple IIe | Assembly |
Merlin | AT | Hermann Kaindl, Marcus Wagner, Helmut Horacek |
CDC Cyber 176 | Pascal |
Novag X | US | David Kittinger, Scott McDonald | 6502 system | Assembly |
Nuchess | US | David Slate, William Blanchard | Cray-1 | Fortran |
Ostrich | CA | Monroe Newborn | 8-DG multiprocessing = 1 x Eclipse, 6 x Nova 4, 1 x Nova 3 |
Assembly |
Phoenix | CA | Jonathan Schaeffer | VAX 11/780 | C |
Schach 2.7 | DE | Matthias Engelbach | Burroughs 7800 | Algol |
Xenarbor | US | Donald Miller | IBM 3081 [4] | Fortran |
Photos & Games
Linda and Tony Scherzer, Bob Henry and David Kittinger, Bebe vs. Novag X [5]
[Event "15th ACM 1984"] [Site "San Francisco USA"] [Date "1984.10.09"] [Round "4"] [White "Bebe"] [Black "Novag X"] [Result "1-0"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 d6 7.Ng5 d5 8.exd5 Nd4 9.d6 Nxb3 10.dxc7 Qxc7 11.axb3 h6 12.Nf3 e4 13.Re1 Be7 14.Nc3 exf3 15.Nxb5 Qc5 16.Qxf3 Qxb5 17.Qxa8 Qb7 18.Qxb7 Bxb7 19.d4 Kd7 20.c4 Bb4 21.Re2 Rd8 22.d5 Nxd5 23.cxd5 Bxd5 24.Rxa6 Bxb3 25.Re4 Bc5 26.Be3 Kc7 27.Ra1 Bd5 28.Bf4+ Kc6 29.Rea4 Be6 30.Be5 Rd2 31.Bxg7 Bxf2+ 32.Kh1 Bd5 33.Bc3 Rc2 34.Ra6+ Kc7 35.R6a5 Kc6 36.Ra6+ Kc7 37.R6a5 Kc6 38.Ra8 Bb6 39.Rg8 f5 40.Rg6+ Kb5 41.Rd1 Be4 42.Bd2 Rxb2 43.Bxh6 f4 44.Rg5+ Kc6 45.Rc1+ Kd6 46.Bg7 Rf2 47.Rd1+ Kc6 48.Be5 Be3 49.Rg4 Bc2 50.Ra1 Kd5 51.Bb8 f3 52.gxf3 Rxf3 53.Ra5+ Ke6 54.h4 Bf5 55.Rga4 Kf7 56.Kg2 Rf2+ 57.Kg3 Rf1 58.Bf4 Bf2+ 59.Kg2 Bd3 60.Rd5 Be2 61.Rd7+ Kg6 62.h5+ Kxh5 63.Rd2 Bb6 64.Rxe2 Rg1+ 65.Kh2 Rb1 66.Rg2 Rb5 67.Ra6 Rf5 68.Kg3 Rf6 1-0
See also
Tournament Director
Publications
- The Fifteenth ACM Computer Chess Championship, San Francisco California, October 7-9, 1984, pdf from The Computer History Museum
- Peggy Watt (1984). Mainframes checkmate Micros. InfoWorld, November 5, 1984, pp. 18, google books
- Tony Marsland (1984). ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC). ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4
- Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn (1985). ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 28, No. 7, reprinted in The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985, pdf from The Computer History Museum
- David Kittinger (1985). 15th North American Computer Chess Championship. 1985 Computer Chess Digest Supplement
- Boris Baczynskyj (1985). The 15th ACM NACCC Anatomized. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3
External Links
- ACM 1984 CSVN site
- North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
- ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
References
- ↑ Hilton San Francisco & Towers, Downtown San Francisco, Photo by Eric in SF, February 09, 2008, Wikimedia Commons, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
- ↑ ACM 1984 CSVN site
- ↑ The Fifteenth ACM Computer Chess Championship, San Francisco California, October 7-9, 1984, pdf from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn (1985). ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 28, No. 7, reprinted in The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985, pdf from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Peggy Watt (1984). Mainframes checkmate Micros. InfoWorld, November 5, 1984, pp. 18, google books