PCW-MCC 1979

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The Second PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship was held November 1-3, 1979, as part of the Personal Computer World exhibition, London, United Kingdom.

Final Standing

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# Program CC 1 2 3 4 5 P G
1 Sargon US 7w1 4b1 2w1 3b1 6b1 5 5
2 Vega GB 5w1 3b1 1b0 6w½ 8b1 5
3 MyChess US 8b1 2w0 4b1 1w0 7w1 3 5
4 Tiny Chess 86 NL 6b1 1w0 3w0 bye 9b1 3 4
5 Mike II GB 2b0 9w1 6b0 8w1 bye 3 4
6 Chess Challenger Voice US 4w0 7b1 5w1 2b½ 1w0 5
7 Max GB 1b0 6w0 bye 9w1 3b0 2 4
8 Delta GB 3w0 bye 9b1 5b0 2w0 2 4
9 Wizard GB bye 5b0 8w0 7b0 4w0 1 4

Participants

Battle for Survival

Max versus Wizard was reported in Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 6 with remarks given by Morris Miller, "A comedy of errors in which the readers can supply their own question marks, exclamation points, asterisks and stars" [4]

[Event "PCW-MCC 1979"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1979.11.02"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Max"]
[Black "Wizard"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4 4.Qe2 Nd6 5.Nc6+ Be7 6.Nxd8 Kxd8 7.d4
Re8 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Nb5 Nf5 10.Bf4 d5 11.Bxc7+ Kd7 12.O-O-O Nd6 13.Qg4+
f5 14.Qxg7 Ne4 15.Qxh7 Ng5 16.Qxf5+ Ne6 17.Qxd5+ Bd6 18.Qxd6# 1-0

Tournament Director

Reports

External Links

References

  1. PCW Micro-Computer Chess Championships, old CSVN site
  2. Kathe Spracklen (1979). Second Annual European Microcomputer Chess Championship - Results and Authors. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2
  3. Fidelity Chess Challenger Voice from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
  4. Editor (1980). Battle for Survival. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 6

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