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 Monty Newborn, professor of computer science at McGill University.Monty Newborn's homepage at McGill University 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 #YearLocationWinner11970New York CityChess 3.021971ChicagoChess 3.031972BostonChess 3.041973AtlantaChess 3.551974San DiegoRibbit61975MinneapolisChess 4.471976HoustonChess 4.581977SeattleChess 4.691978Washington, D.C.Belle101979DetroitChess 4.9111980NashvilleBelle121981Los AngelesBelle131982DallasBelle141983New York CityCray Blitz151984San FranciscoCray Blitz161985DenverHiTech171986DallasBelle181987DallasChipTest-M191988Orlando, FloridaDeep Thought201989Reno, NevadaHiTech and Deep Thought211990New York CityDeep Thought221991AlbuquerqueDeep Thought II231993IndianapolisSocrates II241994Cape May, New JerseyDeep Thought II

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External links ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall