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Hilton Anatole

The ACM's Seventeenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC), took place from November 2-6, 1986, Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA. Simultaneously, in the Dallas Infomart, the 6th WMCCC took place with a compatible time schedule for all those participating both events.

Final Standing

#	Name	CC	1	2	3	4	5	P	SOS
1	Belle	US	15b1	02w1	06b1	04b1	07w1	5	12½
2	Lachex	US	09w1	01b0	13w1	10b1	04w1	4	15
3	Novag	US	07w0	16b1	12w½	08b1	06w1	3½	10
4	Bebe	US	11w1	12b1	08b1	01w0	02b0	3	16
5	Phoenix	CA	08w0	09b0	15w1	13b1	10w1	3	10
6	Mephisto	GB	13w1	10b½	01w0	09w1	03b0	2½	15½
7	Chess Challenger X	US	03b1	08w0	09b½	14w1	01b0	2½	15
8	Recom	NL	05b1	07b1	04w0	03w0	11b½	2½	14½
9	Cyrus 68K	GB	02b0	05w1	07w½	06b0	14w1	2½	13½
10	Fidelity X	US	16b1	06w½	14b1	02w0	05b0	2½	11½
11	ChipTest	US	04b0	14w0	16w1	12b1	08w½	2½	9½
12	Merlin	AT	14b½	04w0	03b½	11w0	15w1	2	11
13	Vaxchess	GB	06b0	15w1	02b0	05w0	16b1	2	10½
14	Ostrich	CA	12w½	11b1	10w0	07b0	09b0	1½	12
15	Waycool	US	01w0	13b0	05b0	16w½	12b0	½	12½
16	Rex	US	10w0	03w0	11b0	15b½	13w0	½	11

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores

Participants

Program	CC	Team	Hardware	Language
Bebe	US	Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer	SYS-10 bit slice hardware	Assembly
Belle	US	Ken Thompson, Joe Condon	PDP-11/23 + special hardware	C
Chess Challenger X	US	Ron Nelson, Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Danny Kopec, Boris Baczynskyj	Z80 + 16 x 68000	C (Z80), Assembly
ChipTest	US	Thomas Anantharaman, Feng-hsiung Hsu	Sun-3 + high speed move generator	Assembly
Cyrus 68K	GB	Mark Taylor, David Levy, Kevin O’Connell	68020	Assembly
Fidelity X	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Danny Kopec	68020	Assembly
Lachex	US	Tony Warnock, Burton Wendroff	Cray X-MP 48	Fortran, Assembly
Mephisto	GB	Richard Lang	68020	Assembly
Merlin	AT	Hermann Kaindl, Marcus Wagner, Helmut Horacek	IBM 3081	Pascal
Novag	US	David Kittinger	6502	Assembly
Ostrich	CA	Monty Newborn	1 x Eclipse, 6 x Nova 4, 1 x Nova 3	Assembly
Phoenix	CA	Jonathan Schaeffer, Marius Olafsson	20 x Sun-3	C
Recom	NL	Ed Schröder	6502 gate array processor	Assembly
Rex	US	Don Dailey	Intel 80286	Pascal
Vaxchess	GB	Tony Guilfoyle, Richard Hooker	MicroVAX II	C, Assembly
Waycool	US	Ed Felten, Rod Morison, Steve Otto	nCUBE 64 Proc.	C

• CC Country Codes

Publications

• The ACM's Seventeenth North American Computer Chess Championship and The Sixth World Microcomputer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
• The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf, covers the ACM's 17th NACCC in Dallas, pp. 10
• Danny Kopec, Monty Newborn (1986). Belle and Mephisto Dallas Capture Computer Chess Title at the FJCC. reprinted in The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
• Garth E. Courtois Jr. (1986). ACM's seventeenth North American Computer-Chess Championship (NACCC). Dallas, Texas, November 2-6, 1986, ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4 pp. 206-213
• Larry Kaufman (1988). ACM 1986 North American Computer-Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports 1987-88 pp. 8

See also

• WCCC 1986
• WMCCC 1986

External Links

• ACM 1986 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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