North American Computer Chess Championship

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The North American Computer Chess Championship (short: NACCC , German  "North American Computer Chess Championship" , also called "ACM Championship" or "ACM Tournament" ) was held mostly every year from 1970 to 1994 North American championship in computer chess , by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) was targeted.

history

The first championship took place in September 1970 under the name 1st ACM United States Computer Chess Championship in New York . It was also the first major computer chess championship in history. It was organized by Monty Newborn , then professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University in New York City , and later computer science professor at McGill University in Montreal . Admitted to the tournament were all kinds of computers - chess programs and chess computers .

In 1975 it was expanded from the USA to all of North America and was renamed the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship , before becoming an open championship in 1991 as the ACM International Computer Chess Championship for the last four years of its existence. When the supercomputer Deep Blue was developed in 1995 as a further improved successor to Deep Thought , which had dominated the tournament since 1988 , the ACM Championship was abandoned. In 1996, Deep Blue became the first computer to beat the then reigning world chess champion Garri Kasparov in a game with regular time controls. In 1997, Deep Blue won against Kasparov an entire six-game match under tournament conditions.

The following table shows all ACM computer chess championships with the respective title holders:

No year place winner
1 1970 new York Chess 3.0
2 1971 Chicago Chess 3.5
3 1972 Boston Chess 3.6
4th 1973 Atlanta Chess 4.0
5 1974 San Diego Ribbit
6th 1975 Minneapolis Chess 4.4
7th 1976 Houston Chess 4.5
8th 1977 Seattle Chess 4.6
9 1978 Washington Belle
10 1979 Detroit Chess 4.9
11 1980 Nashville Belle
12 1981 los Angeles Belle
13 1982 Dallas Belle
14th 1983 new York Cray lightning
15th 1984 San Francisco Cray lightning
16 1985 Denver HiTech
17th 1986 Dallas Belle
18th 1987 Dallas ChipTest -M
19th 1988 Orlando Deep Thought 0.02
20th 1989 Reno HiTech
21st 1990 new York Deep thought
22nd 1991 Albuquerque Deep Thought II
23 1993 Indianapolis Socrates
24 1994 Cape May Deep Thought II

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Steinwender and Frederic Friedel : Schach am PC - Bits and Bytes im Königlichen Spiel , Pearson Education 1998, ISBN 978-3-87791-522-6 , p. 452
  2. ^ Socrates at the 23rd ACM tournament in computer chess & games (CSS), No. 4, 1993, pp. 11-12
  3. ↑ Dieter Steinwender and Frederic Friedel : Schach am PC - Bits and Bytes im Königlichen Spiel , Pearson Education 1998, p. 76, ISBN 978-3-87791-522-6
  4. ↑ It's Man Over Machine as Chess Champion Beats Computer He Calls Tough Opponent Article in the New York Times on February 18, 1996, accessed on November 27, 2017
  5. ↑ Once Again, Machine Beats Human Champion at Chess Article in the New York Times of December 5, 2006, accessed November 27, 2017
  6. ↑ North American Computer-Chess Championships Complete overview of all game results (English), accessed on November 27, 2017