Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 03:56:38 03/07/99
Just found some history, maybe it is of interest to some: In 1970, the ACM Annual Conference hosted the First United States Computer Chess Championship. The name was changed to the North American Computer Chess Championship in 1975 and to the ACM International Computer Chess Championship in 1991. Listed as follows:Year/City/Winner/Runner-up 1970/New York/CHESS 3.0; Slate, Atkin, Gorlen, CDC 6400/DALY CHESS PROGRAM; Daly, King, Varian 620/I 1971/Chicago/CHESS 3.5; Slate, Atkin, Gorlen,CDC 6400/TECH; Gillogly, PDP 10 1972/Boston/CHESS 3.6; Slate, Atkin, Gorlen, CDC 6400/OSTRICH; Arnold, Newborn, DG Supernova 1973/Atlanta/CHESS 4.0; Slate, Atkin, Gorlen, CDC 6400/TECH II; Baisley, PDP 10 1974/San Diego/RIBBIT; Hansen, Crook, Parry, Howell 6050/CHESS 4.0; Slate, Atkin, CDC 6400 1975/Minneapolis/CHESS 4.4; Slate, Atkin, CDC Cyber 175/TREEFROG; Hansen, Calnek, Crook, Howell 6080 1976/Houston/CHESS 4.5; Slate, Atkin, CDC Cyber 176/CHAOS; Swartz, Berman, Alexander, Ruben, Toikka, Winograd, Amdahl 470 1977/Seattle/CHESS 4.6; Slate, Atkin, CDC Cyber 176/DUCHESS; Truscott, Wright, Jensen, IBM370/168 1978/Washington/BELLE; Thompson, Condon, PDP 11/70 w/ chess hardware/CHESS 4.7; Slate, Atkin, CDC Cyber 176 1979/Detroit/CHESS 4.9; Slate, Atkin, CDC Cyber 176/BELLE; Thompson, Condon, PDP 11/70 with chess hardware 1980/Nashville/BELLE; Thompson, Condon, PDP 11/70 w/ chess hardware/CHAOS; Alexander, O'Keefe, Swartz, Berman, Amdahl 470 1981/Los Angeles/BELLE; Thompson, Condon, PDP 11/23 w/ chess hardware/NUCHESS; Blanchard, Slate, CDC Cyber 176 1982/Dallas/BELLE; Thompson, Condon, PDP 11/23 w/ chess hardware/CRAY BLITZ; Hyatt, Gower, Nelson, Cray 1 1983/Held as the Fourth World Championship. 1984/San Francisco/CRAY BLITZ; Hyatt, Gower, Cray XMP/4 Engine/BEBE; Scherzer, Chess, Nelson, and FIDELITY EXPERIMENTAL; Sparcklen, Spracklen, Fidelity machine 1985/Denver/HITECH; Ebeling, Berliner, Goetsch, Paley/BEBE; Scherzer, Chess engine, Campbell, Slomer, SUN w/ chess hardware 1986/Dallas/BELLE; Thompson, Condon, 11/23/LACHEX; Wendroff, Cray X - w/chess hardware, MP 1987/Dallas/CHIPTEST-M; Anantharaman, Hsu;/CRAY BLITZ; Campbell, SUN 3 with VLSI chess hardware Hyatt, Nelson, Gower, Cray XMP 4/8 1988/Orlando/DEEP THOUGHT 0.02; Hsu: /CHESS CHALLENGEREXP; Anatharaman, Browne, Campbell, Spracklen, Spracklen, Nelson; Nowatzyk, SUN 3 w/ VLSI circuitry Fidelity machine with Motorola 68030 1989/Reno/HITECH*; Ebeling, Berliner, Goetsch, Paley, DEEP THOUGHT*; Campbell, Slomer, SUN w/ chess hardware Hsu, Anantharaman; (* denotes 1st-place tie) Browne, Campbell, Nowatzyk 3 SUN 4s w/ VLSI chess hardware /1990/New York/DEEP THOUGHT/88; Hsu, Anantharaman, MEPHISTO; Lang, 68030; Jensen, Campbell, Nowatzyk, SUN 4 with microprocessor MEPHISTO two special VLSI chess circuits machine 1991/Albuquerque/DEEP THOUGHT II, Hsu, Campbell,M CHESS; Hirsch, IBM PC IBM RS/6000 550 + 24 chess processors. Clone/486 1993/Indianapolis/Socrates II, Dailey, Kaufmann, IBM PC CRAY BLITZ; Hyatt, Gower, Nelson 1994/Cape May/DEEP ThoughtII, Hsu, Campbell and Hoane ZARKOV, John Stanback, HP IBM RS6000 + 12 chess processors 735 1995/Not Held The ICCA is the official world governing body for computer chess. It was founded in 1977 to regularize the activities of the computer chess community which, by then, had already spawned more than ten championship tournaments in which all of the participants were computer programs. The founding President of the ICCA was Ben Mittman, Director of the Computer Center at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Under Mittman's guidance, a small group of Northwestern students had developed the first significant chess program (an early version won the very first computer chess championship, organized by the ACM at its 1970 annual conference in New York). For a decade, subsequent versions of the Northwestern program completely dominated the world of computer chess, winning eight of the first ten ACM championships as well as the 1977 World Computer Chess Championship.
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