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[[FILE:levywccc77.jpg|none|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/1977_WCCC_Toronto.102645433/index.php?iid=mov-433190c268f04| [[David Levy]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/1977_WCCC_Toronto.102645433/index.php?iid=mov-433190c268f04 1977 World Computer Chess Championship, Toronto, Canada], Footage excerpted from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_%28TV_series%29 Nova] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nova_episodes#Season_5:_1978 episode 0509] ''The Mind Machines'', 1978, [[The Computer History Museum]]
[[David Levy]]: The crowd tonight is absolutely phenomenal, I've never seen a crowd like this before at a computer chess tournament and there's certainly about twice as many people here as ever go to watch the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Open_Chess_Championship US Open Championship] or the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Chess_Championship United States Closed Championship], even when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer Fischer] was playing. I think that probably most of you are having a good laugh tonight and you're here out of curiosity, but in a few years time you'll be here because these programs are playing better then the masters and grand masters in the US championship.</ref> ]]
=Final Standing=
2nd World Computer Chess Championship 1977, Toronto CA <ref>[httphttps://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/tournament.php?id=18 ICGA Tournament site]</ref> <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54%3Awccc-1977&catid=19%3Acomputer-computer&Itemid=48&lang=en8 2nd World Computer Chess Championship 1977] [[CSVN]] tournament site</ref> <ref>[http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/77wc$tix.htm World Computer Chess Championship - 2nd WCCC - 1977 Toronto] by [[Mark Weeks]]</ref> .
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| [[Black Knight]]
! US
| [[Fred Prouse]], [[Kenn Sogge]],<br/>[[Gary Maltzen]], [[Lonny Lebahn]]
| [[UNIVAC 1100|UNIVAC 1110]]
| [[Fortran]]
| [[CHAOS]]
! US
| [[Mike Alexander]], [[Victor Berman]], [[Ira Ruben]],<br/>[[Fred Swartz]], [[William Toikka]], [[Joe Winograd]]
| [[Amdahl 470|Amdahl 470v/6]]
| [[Fortran]]
| [[Kaissa]]
! SU
| [[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Vladimir Arlazarov]],<br/>[[Anatoly Uskov]], [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]]
| [[IBM 370|IBM 370/168]]
| [[Assembly]]
=Selected Games=
Round 1, [[Duchess]] - [[Kaissa]] <ref>[httphttps://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=18&round=1&id=1 Toronto 1977 - Chess - Round 1 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)]</ref> , where Kaissa surprised with 34... Re8 <ref>[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200064 Looking for a position] by [[Aaron Tay]], [[CCC]], December 02, 2001</ref>
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=Exhibition Game=
[[FILE:KaissaChess1977.jpg|none|border|text-bottom]]
[[Kaissa]] vs. [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.6]] exhibition game after the tournament, [[Mikhail Donskoy]] and [[Vladimir Arlazarov]] <br/> in front, [[David Slate]], [[David Cahlander]] and [[Larry Atkin]] behind <ref>[[Personal Computing]], [https://archive.org/stream/PersonalComputing197804/Personal%20Computing%201978%2004#page/n109/mode/1up Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 112], Photo courtesy of [https://www.insidetoronto.com/directory/toronto-on/photographers-portrait/glionna-darcy-photographer-1904202/ D'Arcy Glionna], of Daniels and Glionna, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto Toronto], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario Ontario], Canada, hosted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive]</ref> <ref>Game notation from [[David Levy]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1982, 1983'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2 All About Chess and Computers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer], More Chess and Computers, [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2_11 Computer Chess Tournaments]</ref>
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[Event "Exhibition game"]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/event.php?id=15 2nd World Computer Chess Championship] from the [httphttps://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/ ICGA Tournament Database]
* [http://www.computerwoche.de/a/schach-programme-holen-auf,1200037 Schach-Programme holen auf], October 28, 1977, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] (German)
* <span id="Video"></span>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/1977_WCCC_Toronto.102645433/index.php?iid=mov-433190c268f04 1977 World Computer Chess Championship, Toronto, Canada], [[The Computer History Museum]]
