North American Computer Chess Championship

The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994. It was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery and by Dr. Monty Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University.^[1] It was one of the first computer chess tournaments. The 14th NACCC was also the World Computer Chess Championship.

Event #	Year	Location	Winner
1	1970	New York, NY	Chess 3.0
2	1971	Chicago	Chess 3.0
3	1972	Boston	Chess 3.0
4	1973	Atlanta	Chess 3.5
5	1974	San Diego	Ribbit
6	1975	Minneapolis	Chess 4.4
7	1976	Houston	Chess 4.5
8	1977	Seattle	Chess 4.6
9	1978	Washington, D.C.	Belle
10	1979	Detroit	Chess 4.9
11	1980	Nashville	Belle
12	1981	Los Angeles	Belle
13	1982	Dallas	Belle[2]
14	1983	New York, NY	Cray Blitz
15	1984	San Francisco	Cray Blitz
16	1985	Denver	HiTech
17	1986	Dallas	Belle
18	1987	Dallas	ChipTest-M
19	1988	Orlando, Florida	Deep Thought
20	1989	Reno, Nevada	HiTech and Deep Thought
21	1990		Deep Thought
22	1991	Albuquerque	Deep Thought II
23	1993	Indianapolis	Socrates II
24	1994	Cape May, New Jersey	Deep Thought II

References

1. Dr. Monty Newborn's homepage at McGill University
2. Stinson, Craig (1982-01). "Chess Championship: Machines Play, People Watch". Softline. p. 6. Retrieved 13 July 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

• ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall