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The '''PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship''' was held six times from 1978 to 1983 as part of the [[Personal Computer World]] exhibition in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom]. The third event was declared the [[WMCCC 1980|First World Microcomputer Chess Championship]], as well as the First European Microcomputer Chess Championship (inofficial ). The remaining three PCW events were further subsequently declared [[European Microcomputer Chess Championship]]. [[David Levy]] remarks in his 1978 report that he is beginning to prefer computer chess to competing in international tournaments <ref>[[David Levy]] ('''1978'''). ''The PCW Microcomputer Chess Championships'', [[Personal Computer World]] 11/78, [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW-MCC_1978.pdf pdf] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.<br />
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=Editions= <br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Edition <br />
! Event <br />
! Participants <br />
! Champion <br />
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! 1st <br />
| [[PCW-MCC 1978]] <br />
| style="text-align:center;" | 6 <br />
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Mike]] <br />
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! 2nd <br />
| [[PCW-MCC 1979]] <br />
| style="text-align:center;" | 9 <br />
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Sargon]] <br />
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! 3rd <br />
| [[WMCCC 1980|PCW-MCC 1980]] <br />
| style="text-align:center;" | 14 <br />
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chess Challenger]] <br />
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! 4th <br />
| [[European MCC 1981|PCW-MCC 1981]] <br />
| style="text-align:center;" | 12 <br />
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Cyrus]] <br />
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! 5th <br />
| [[European MCC 1982|PCW-MCC 1982]] <br />
| style="text-align:center;" | 12 <br />
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Advance|Advance 2.4]] <br />
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! 6th <br />
| [[European MCC 1983|PCW-MCC 1983]] <br />
| style="text-align:center;" | 14 <br />
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Advance|Advance 3.0]] <br />
|}<br />
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=Recruiting Ground= <br />
[[Mike Watters]] in ''Chess Computer UK'' <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref> :<br />
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PCW tournaments were to provide [[David Levy|Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell|O’Connell]] with a fertile recruiting ground for proven chess programmers. For the time being though other avenues were explored. At the bottom of his article entitled ‘Chess Programming: Before You Begin’ published in the May 1979 edition of Personal Computer World, David Levy added an advertisement for programmers. At this point the [[Philidor Software]] company was born.<br />
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: [[FILE:Philidor_Software_1979_Advert_1_70_x_70.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html]]<br />
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=See also= <br />
* [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship]]<br />
* [[European Microcomputer Chess Championship]]<br />
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=External Links= <br />
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/event_info.php?id=3 Third PCW Exhibition (ICGA Tournaments)]<br />
* [http://old.csvn.nl/pcw_hist.html PCW Micro-Computer Chess Championships], old [[CSVN]] site<br />
* [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] by [[Mike Watters]]<br />
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=References= <br />
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