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Dallas Infomart [1]
ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC), Dallas, Texas, USA, October 25-27, 1987. The tournament was held in conjunction with the ACM Fall Joint Computer Conference in the Dallas Infomart [2] along with a Computer Chess Workshop [3].
Final Standing
| # | Name | CC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | P | SOS | G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChipTest m | US | 5w1 | 4b1 | 2b1 | 3w1 | 4 | 10½ | 4 |
| 2 | Cray Blitz | US | 7w1 | 6b1 | 1w0 | 5w1 | 3 | 10 | 4 |
| 3 | Sun Phoenix | CA | 10w1 | 8b1 | 6w1 | 1b0 | 3 | 10 | 4 |
| 4 | Lachex | US | 12b1 | 1w0 | 11b½ | 7b1 | 2½ | 8½ | 4 |
| 5 | Cyrus 68K | GB | 1b0 | 9w1 | 8w1 | 2b0 | 2 | 11 | 4 |
| 6 | Bebe | US | 11b1 | 2w0 | 3b0 | 12w1 | 2 | 8½ | 4 |
| 7 | Novag | US | 2b0 | 13w1 | 12b1 | 4w0 | 2 | 7½ | 4 |
| 8 | Belle | US | 9b1 | 3w0 | 5b0 | bye | 2 | 7 | 3 |
| 9 | Waycool | US | 8w0 | 5b0 | 13b1 | 11w1 | 2 | 6½ | 4 |
| 10 | GNU Chess | US | 3b0 | 11w0 | bye | 13b1 | 2 | 5½ | 3 |
| 11 | BP | US | 6w0 | 10b1 | 4w½ | 9b0 | 1½ | 8½ | 4 |
| 12 | Ostrich | CA | 4w0 | bye | 7w0 | 6b0 | 1 | 6½ | 3 |
| 13 | Greco | US | bye | 7b0 | 9w0 | 10w0 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
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 |
| BP | US | Robert Cullum |  |
Compaq 386 |
C, Assembly |
| ChipTest m | US | Thomas Anantharaman, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell |
 |
Sun-3 + high speed move generator |
C |
| Cray Blitz | US | Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower  Harry Nelson |
  |
Cray X-MP 4/8 | Fortran, Assembly |
| Cyrus 68K | GB | Mark Taylor, David Levy |
 |
68020 based micro |
Assembly |
| GNU Chess | US | Stuart Cracraft, John Stanback, Jay Scott, Jim Aspnes |
 |
VAX 8650 | C |
| Greco | US | David Stafford |  |
8086 IBM PC |
C |
| Lachex | US | Tony Warnock, Burton Wendroff |
 |
Cray X-MP 4/16 | Fortran, Assembly |
| Novag | US | David Kittinger |  |
6502 bit sliced micro |
Assembly |
| Ostrich | CA | Monty Newborn |  |
1 x Eclipse, 7 x Nova 4 |
Assembly |
| Sun Phoenix | CA | Jonathan Schaeffer, Marius Olafsson |
 |
20 Sun-3 68020 |
C |
| Waycool | US | Ed Felten, Steve Otto,  Rod Morison, Rob Fatland |
  |
nCUBE 10 512 Proc. |
C |
Two Remarkable Games
See also
Publications
Tournament
- The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, as pdf
- Garth E. Courtois Jr., Ken Thompson (1987). ACM's 18th North American Computer-Chess Championship (NACCC). Dallas, Texas, October 25-27, 1987, ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4
- Larry Kaufman (1988). ACM 1987 North American Computer-Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports 1987-88 pp. 9
- Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (1988). Results of ACM's Eighteenth Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 8, pdf
Workshop
- Tony Marsland (1987). Workshop Report: Theory and Practice in Computer Chess. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, File:Workshop-1987.pdf [7]
External Links
- ACM 1987 CSVN side
- North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
- ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
References
- ↑ Infomart from Wikipedia
- ↑ The 1987 Fall Joint Computer Conference Infomart - Dallas, Texas, October 25-29, 1987 (pdf)
- ↑ 1987 Computer Chess Championship at FJCC
- ↑ ACM 1987 CSVN side
- ↑ The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, as pdf
- ↑ Cartoons by Jeff Ragsdale, published in various issues of ICCA Journal in 1987, 1988 and 1989
- ↑ pdf, Courtesy of Tony Marsland, March 25, 2013
