North American Computer Chess Championship information
Computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994
The special events for ACM 1970 included the first 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 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.
The event was canceled in 1995 as Deep Blue was preparing for the first match against world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and never resumed.
Event #
Year
Location
Winner
1
1970
New York City
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 City
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
New York City
Deep Thought
22
1991
Albuquerque
Deep Thought II
23
1993
Indianapolis
Socrates II
24
1994
Cape May, New Jersey
Deep Thought II
^Monty Newborn's homepage at McGill University
^Stinson, Craig (January 1982). "Chess Championship: Machines Play, People Watch". Softline. p. 6. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
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