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 * [[image:320px-Dallas_Infomart.jpg link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dallas_Infomart.jpg"]] ||~  || ACM's **Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship** (NACCC), [|Dallas], [|Texas], USA, October 25-27, 1987. The tournament was held in conjunction with the ACM Fall Joint Computer Conference in the [|Dallas Infomart] along with a Computer Chess Workshop . ||
 * Dallas Infomart ||~  ||^   ||
 * ~ # ||~ Name ||~ CC ||~ 1 ||~ 2 ||~ 3 ||~ 4 ||~ P ||~ SOS ||~ G ||
 * ~ 1 || ChipTest m ||~ US ||> 5w1 ||> 4b1 ||> 2b1 ||> 3w1 ||~ 4 ||= 10½ || 4 ||
 * ~ 2 || Cray Blitz ||~ US ||> 7w1 ||> 6b1 ||> 1w0 ||> 5w1 ||~ 3 ||= 10 || 4 ||
 * ~ 3 || Sun Phoenix ||~ CA ||> 10w1 ||> 8b1 ||> 6w1 ||> 1b0 ||~ 3 ||= 10 || 4 ||
 * ~ 4 || Lachex ||~ US ||> 12b1 ||> 1w0 ||> 11b½ ||> 7b1 ||~ 2½ ||= 8½ || 4 ||
 * ~ 5 || Cyrus 68K ||~ GB ||> 1b0 ||> 9w1 ||> 8w1 ||> 2b0 ||~ 2 ||= 11 || 4 ||
 * ~ 6 || Bebe ||~ US ||> 11b1 ||> 2w0 ||> 3b0 ||> 12w1 ||~ 2 ||= 8½ || 4 ||
 * ~ 7 || Novag ||~ US ||> 2b0 ||> 13w1 ||> 12b1 ||> 4w0 ||~ 2 ||= 7½ || 4 ||
 * ~ 8 || Belle ||~ US ||> 9b1 ||> 3w0 ||> 5b0 ||> //**bye**// ||~ 2 ||= 7 || 3 ||
 * ~ 9 || Waycool ||~ US ||> 8w0 ||> 5b0 ||> 13b1 ||> 11w1 ||~ 2 ||= 6½ || 4 ||
 * ~ 10 || GNU Chess ||~ US ||> 3b0 ||> 11w0 ||> //**bye**// ||> 13b1 ||~ 2 ||= 5½ || 3 ||
 * ~ 11 || BP ||~ US ||> 6w0 ||> 10b1 ||> 4w½ ||> 9b0 ||~ 1½ ||= 8½ || 4 ||
 * ~ 12 || Ostrich ||~ CA ||> 4w0 ||> //**bye**// ||> 7w0 ||> 6b0 ||~ 1 ||= 6½ || 3 ||
 * ~ 13 || Greco ||~ US ||> //**bye**// ||> 7b0 ||> 9w0 ||> 10w0 ||~ 1 ||= 6 || 3 ||
 * [|CC Country Codes]
 * SOS: [|Sum of Opponent Scores]

=Participants= Linda Scherzer ||= || SYS-10 [|bit slice] hardware || Assembly || Joe Condon ||= || PDP-11/23 + special hardware || C || Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell ||= || Sun-3 + high speed move generator || C || Albert Gower, Harry Nelson ||= || Cray X-MP 4/8 || Fortran, Assembly || David Levy ||= || 68020 based micro || Assembly || John Stanback, Jay Scott, Jim Aspnes ||= || VAX 8650 || C || Burton Wendroff ||= || Cray X-MP 4/16 || Fortran, Assembly || Marius Olafsson ||= || 20 Sun-3 68020 || C || Steve Otto, Rod Morison, Rob Fatland ||= || nCUBE 10 512 Proc. || C ||
 * ~ Program ||~ CC ||||~ Team ||~ Hardware ||~ Language ||
 * Bebe ||~ US || Tony Scherzer,
 * Belle ||~ US || Ken Thompson,
 * BP ||~ US || Robert Cullum ||= [[image:CullumCartoon.JPG width="120" link="Robert Cullum"]] || [|Compaq] 386 || C, Assembly ||
 * ChipTest m ||~ US || Thomas Anantharaman,
 * Cray Blitz ||~ US || Robert Hyatt,
 * Cyrus 68K ||~ GB || Mark Taylor,
 * GNU Chess ||~ US || Stuart Cracraft,
 * Greco ||~ US || David Stafford ||= [[image:StaffordCartoon.jpg width="120" link="David Stafford"]] || 8086 IBM PC || C ||
 * Lachex ||~ US || Tony Warnock,
 * Novag ||~ US || David Kittinger ||= [[image:KittingerCartoon.JPG width="120" link="David Kittinger"]] || 6502 [|bit sliced] micro || Assembly ||
 * Ostrich ||~ CA || Monty Newborn ||= [[image:NewbornCortoon.JPG width="120" link="Monroe Newborn"]] || 1 x Eclipse, 7 x Nova 4 || Assembly ||
 * Sun Phoenix ||~ CA || Jonathan Schaeffer,
 * Waycool ||~ US || Ed Felten,
 * [|CC Country Codes]

=Two remarkable Games=
 * Chiptest-m vs Sun Phoenix : []
 * Cray Blitz vs Chiptest-m : []

=See also=
 * Cartoons by Jeff Ragsdale
 * WMCCC 1986

=Publications=

Tournament

 * [|The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship] from The Computer History Museum, as [|pdf]
 * Garth E. Courtois Jr., Ken Thompson (**1987**). //ACM's 18th North American Computer-Chess Championship (NACCC).// Dallas, Texas, October 25-27, 1987, ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4
 * Larry Kaufman (**1988**). //ACM 1987 North American Computer-Chess Championship//. Computer Chess Reports 1987-88 pp. 9
 * Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (**1988**). //Results of ACM's Eighteenth Computer Chess Championship//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 8, [|pdf]

Workshop
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 * Tony Marsland (**1987**). //Workshop Report: Theory and Practice in Computer Chess//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4

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