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The **Second PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship** was held November 1-3, 1979, as part of the Personal Computer World exhibition, [|London], [|United Kingdom].

=Final Standing=
 * ~ # ||~ Program ||~ CC ||~ 1 ||~ 2 ||~ 3 ||~ 4 ||~ 5 ||~ P ||~ G ||
 * ~ 1 || Sargon ||~ US || 7w1 || 4b1 || 2w1 || 3b1 || 6b1 ||~ 5 || 5 ||
 * ~ 2 || Vega ||~ GB || 5w1 || 3b1 || 1b0 || 6w½ || 8b1 ||~ 3½ || 5 ||
 * ~ 3 || MyChess ||~ US || 8b1 || 2w0 || 4b1 || 1w0 || 7w1 ||~ 3 || 5 ||
 * ~ 4 || Tiny Chess 86 ||~ NL || 6b1 || 1w0 || 3w0 || **bye** || 9b1 ||~ 3 || 4 ||
 * ~ 5 || Mike II ||~ GB || 2b0 || 9w1 || 6b0 || 8w1 || **bye** ||~ 3 || 4 ||
 * ~ 6 || Chess Challenger Voice ||~ US || 4w0 || 7b1 || 5w1 || 2b½ || 1w0 ||~ 2½ || 5 ||
 * ~ 7 || Max ||~ GB || 1b0 || 6w0 || **bye** || 9w1 || 3b0 ||~ 2 || 4 ||
 * ~ 8 || Delta ||~ GB || 3w0 || **bye** || 9b1 || 5b0 || 2w0 ||~ 2 || 4 ||
 * ~ 9 || Wizard ||~ GB || **bye** || 5b0 || 8w0 || 7b0 || 4w0 ||~ 1 || 4 ||
 * [|CC Country Codes]

=Participants=  =Battle for Survival= Max versus Wizard was reported in  Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 6 with remarks given by Morris Miller,  "A comedy of errors in which the readers can supply their own question marks, exclamation points, asterisks and stars" code [Event "PCW-MCC 1979"] [Site "London"] [Date "1979.11.02"] [Round "4"] [White "Max"] [Black "Wizard"] [Result "1-0"]
 * ~ Program ||~ CC ||~ Authors ||
 * Chess Challenger Voice ||~ US || Ron Nelson ||
 * Delta ||~ GB || Dave Wilson ||
 * Max ||~ GB || Guy Burkill ||
 * Mike II ||~ GB || Mike Johnson ||
 * MyChess ||~ US || David Kittinger ||
 * Sargon ||~ US || Dan and Kathe Spracklen ||
 * Tiny Chess 86 ||~ NL || Jan Kuipers ||
 * Vega ||~ GB || David Broughton ||
 * Wizard ||~ GB || Jeffrey and Clare Cooper ||
 * [|CC Country Codes]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4 4.Qe2 Nd6 5.Nc6+ Be7 6.Nxd8 Kxd8 7.d4 Re8 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Nb5 Nf5 10.Bf4 d5 11.Bxc7+ Kd7 12.O-O-O Nd6 13.Qg4+ f5 14.Qxg7 Ne4 15.Qxh7 Ng5 16.Qxf5+ Ne6 17.Qxd5+ Bd6 18.Qxd6# 1-0 code

=Tournament Director=
 * David Levy

=Reports=
 * Kathe Spracklen (**1979**). //Second Annual European Microcomputer Chess Championship - Results and Authors//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2
 * Editor (**1980**). //Battle for Survival//. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 6 » Battle for Survival

=External Links= > Herbie Hancock, [|Paul Jackson], Alphonse Mouzon, [|Bennie Maupin], [|Ray Obiedo], [|Bill Summers], [|Webster Lewis Jr.] > media type="youtube" key="tCFPT6hvFQQ" width="560"
 * [|PCW Micro-Computer Chess Championships], old CSVN site
 * [|Chess Computers - The UK Story] by Mike Watters
 * Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters - [|Hang Up Your Hang Ups], [|Chelsea College of Arts], London 1979

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