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Subject: North American Computer Chess Championships (ACM) 1970-1994

Author: Theo van der Storm

Date: 10:37:45 08/22/05

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On August 22, 2005 at 12:56:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 22, 2005 at 11:57:33, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Is it the largest margin (by percentage of points) ever for a WCCC or WMCCC
>>event?
>
>
>No.  Earlier WCCCs were won with perfect scores.  Deep Thought in 1989.  Fewer
>rounds, but that really doesn't matter in a swiss where you have enough rounds
>that the winner has to play the top programs...

In any case 4 rounds is not much and difficult to compare with 11 rounds.

>We also had a perfect score at one of the ACM events.  I think 1984 but I am not
>sure without my files handy...

The information is on-line at

http://www.computerschaak.nl/ncc_hist.html

thanks to the data I got from Ken Thompson in 2002.

22nd North American CC Championship, Nov. 1991, Albuquerque USA
Deep Thought II	5 out of 5

18th North American CC Championship, Aug. 1987, Dallas USA
Chiptest M	4 out of 4

17th North American CC Championship, Nov. 1986, Dallas USA
Belle	5 out of 5

16th North American CC Championship, Oct. 1985, Denver USA
Hitech 4 out of 4

15th North American CC Championship, Oct. 1984, San Francisco USA
Cray Blitz	4 out of 4

etc.

The first one:
1st North American CC Championship, Sep. 1970, New York USA
Chess 3.0	3 out of 3

Theo



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