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Computer Chess Organizations

International

• ACCA - Americas' Computer Chess Association
• ICCA - International Computer Chess Association, in 2002 renamed to
  ICGA - International Computer Games Association ^[1]

National

• CSVN - Computerschaak Vereniging Nederland
• G 6 - Gruppo Scacchi e Informatica (gsei)
• SSDF - Svenska schackdatorföreningen

Computer Games Organizations

• ICGA - International Computer Games Association
• TCGA - Taiwan Computer Game Association

Organizations related to Computer Chess and Games

• AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  until 2007 the American Association for Artificial Intelligence ^[2]
• ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing
• IJCAI - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
• TAAI - Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence

Chess Organizations

• FIDE - Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation

Universities and Institutes

A lot of universities are associated with people and chess programs:

University or Institute	City	State, Country
Atlas Computer Laboratory	Chilton site, Oxfordshire	United Kingdom
Australian National University	Canberra	Australia
Bar-Ilan University	Ramat-Gan	Israel
Bell Laboratories	Murray Hill	New Jersey, United States
Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania, United States
Chemnitz University of Technology	Chemnitz	Germany
Columbia University	New York City	New York, United States
Darmstadt University of Technology	Darmstadt	Germany
Dartmouth College	Hanover	New Hampshire, United States
Delft University of Technology	Delft	The Netherlands
Duke University	Durham	North Carolina, United States
ETH Zurich	Zürich	Switzerland
Free University of Berlin	Berlin	Germany
Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta	Georgia, United States
Harvard University	Cambridge	Massachusetts, United States
Institute of Control Sciences	Moscow	Russia
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics	Moscow	Russia
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Kanazawa, Ishikawa	Japan
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Livermore	California, United States
Leiden University	Leiden	The Netherlands
Los Alamos National Laboratory	Los Alamos	New Mexico, United States
Maastricht University	Maastricht	The Netherlands
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	Massachusetts, United States
McGill University	Montreal	Quebec, Canada
Michigan State University	East Lansing	Michigan, United States
Moscow State University	Moscow	Russia
National Chiao Tung University	Hsinchu	Taiwan
National Taiwan University	Taipei	Taiwan
Northwestern University	Evanston and Chicago	Illinois, United States.
Queen Mary, University of London	London	United Kingdom
Stanford University	Stanford	California, United States
Technical University of Łódź	Łódź	Poland
Technical University of Madrid	Madrid	Spain
Technical University of Munich	Munich	Germany
Tilburg University	Tilburg	The Netherlands
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Alabama, United States
University of Alberta	Edmonton	Alberta, Canada
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley	California, United States
University of California, Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz	California, United States
University of Dortmund	Dortmund	Germany
University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh	Scotland
University of Hamburg	Hamburg	Germany
University of Helsinki	Helsinki	Finland
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Urbana and Champaign	Illinois, United States
University of Ljubljana	Ljubljana	Slovenia
University of Manchester	Manchester	United Kingdom
University of Maribor	Maribor	Slovenia
University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan, United States
University of Paderborn	Paderborn	Germany
University of Paris	Paris	France
University of Toronto	Toronto	Ontario, Canada
University of Southern California	Los Angeles	California, United States
University of Southern Mississippi	Hattiesburg	Mississippi, United States
University of Warsaw	Warsaw	Poland
University of Waterloo	Waterloo	Ontario, Canada
University of West Hungary	Sopron	Hungary
Vienna University of Technology	Vienna	Austria

Museums

related to Computer Chess:

• The Computer History Museum
• Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
• Russian Virtual Computer Museum

Companies

Hardware

Processors

• AMD
• IBM
• Intel
• Motorola

Chess Computers

• Applied Concepts » Chafitz
• Excalibur Electronics
• Fidelity Electronics
• Hegener & Glaser
• Millennium 2000 GmbH
• Milton Bradley
• Newcrest Technology
• Novag
• Saitek
• TASC
• VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt

Software

Operating Sytems

• Apple
• Google
• Microsoft
• Sun Microsystems
• Free Software Foundation, GNU

Development

• Intel
• Microsoft
• Free Software Foundation, GCC

Chess & AI-Games

• AI Factory
• Chafitz Inc.
• ChessBase
• ChessGenius World class chess software by Richard Lang
• Chess Tiger - World Class Chess in your Palm by Christophe Théron
• ChessOK (Convekta)
• ChessUSA (ICD Corporation)
• Convekta (ChessOK)
• CSS-Shop! Steinwender EDV-Beratung GbR
• DeepMind
• EVCOMP - Chess software by Emil Vlasák
• Heuristic Software
• HIARCS Chess Software for PC, Mac, Pocket PC, iPhone, iPod and Palm Chess by Mark Uniacke
• ICD Corporation (ChessUSA)
• Intelligent Software
• Lokasoft by Lex Loep
• Microtrend
• Oxford Softworks
• Philidor Software
• PocketGrandmaster by Frank Schneider & Kai Skibbe Softwaredevelopment
• Rybka Chess by Vasik Rajlich
• Schachversand Niggemann
• Shanghai Xianqu Info-Tech Co., Ltd.
• Shredder Computer Chess by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
• Szabo Software

Games

• Artic Computing
• Electronic Arts
• Interplay
• Mindscape
• Sierra
• Titus
• Ubisoft

References

1. ^ ICCA BECOMES ICGA by David Levy, President of the ICGA, ICGA Journal Vol. 25, No. 3 - September 2002
2. ^ AAAI Name Change

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