Personal+Computer+World

was the first British computer magazine founded by Angelo Zgorelec in 1978, launched from February 1978 to June 2009. The magazine sponsored the Personal Computer World Show, an annual trade fair held in London every September from 1978 to 1989, also hosting the PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship and European Microcomputer Chess Championship as part of the show. In their early years, PCW regularly published about computer chess. || toc =PCW Tournaments=
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 * [[image:PCW_November_1978.jpg link="http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive.html"]] ||~ || **Personal Computer World**, (PCW)
 * PCW 11, 1978, Mike Johnson ||~ ||^ ||
 * PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * PCW-MCC 1978
 * PCW-MCC 1979
 * PCW-MCC 1980 = WMCCC 1980
 * European Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * European MCC 1981
 * European MCC 1982
 * European MCC 1983

=Selected Authors=
 * Frederic Friedel
 * Tony Harrington
 * David Levy
 * Kevin O’Connell

=Selected Articles=

1978

 * David Levy (**1978**). //The PCW Microcomputer Chess Championships//. Personal Computer World, [|November 1978] » PCW-MCC 1978, Mike Johnson, Mike

1979

 * David Levy (**1979**). //Chess Programming - Before You Begin//. Personal Computer World, [|May 1979]

1980

 * Kevin O’Connell (**1980**). //World Microcomputer Chess Championship//. Personal Computer World, [|November 1980] » WMCCC 1980
 * Kevin O’Connell (**1980**). //More Championships//. Personal Computer World, [|December 1980] » WCCC 1980

1981

 * Kevin O’Connell (**1981**). //Belle, Beller, Bellest//. Personal Computer World, [|July 1981] » Belle
 * Kevin O’Connell (**1981**). //MicroChess - Paris Tournament//. Personal Computer World, [|August 1981] » CPWTIPC 1981
 * Editor (**1981**). //Chess Final '81//. Personal Computer World, [|November 1981] » European MCC 1981

1982

 * Tony Harrington (**1982**). //Advance to the fore//. Personal Computer World, [|December 1982] » European MCC 1982

1983

 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Good Looking, Sensitive and Intelligent//. Personal Computer World, [|March 1983] » Conchess, Ulf Rathsman
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Intelligent Software//. Personal Computer World, [|April 1983] » Intelligent Software
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //A Match for Brute Force//. Personal Computer World, [|May 1983] » Mephisto
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Alphabetical Chess//. Personal Computer World, [|June 1983] » BCP, Don Beal
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Phantom Moves//. Personal Computer World, [|July 1983], [|pdf] » Milton Bradley Phantom
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //University Challenge - Martin Bryant and White Knight//. Personal Computer World, [|August 1983] » Martin Bryant, White Knight
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Winner Takes All//. Personal Computer World, [|September 1983] » Cyrus, Richard Lang
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Inter~Galactic Moves//. Personal Computer World, [|October 1983] » Novag, Paul Cohen, Peter Auge, Constellation
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Advance Warning//. Personal Computer World, [|November 1983] » Advance, Mike Johnson, Dave Wilson
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //Chess Tournament - 4th European Microcomputer Chess Championship//. Personal Computer World, [|December 1983] » European MCC 1983

1984

 * Frederic Friedel (**1984**). //Move from the East//. Personal Computer World, January 1984 » WMCCC 1983
 * Tony Harrington (**1984**). //Blitz on New York - Report of WCCC 1983//. Personal Computer World, [|February 1984] » WCCC 1983, Cray Blitz
 * Tony Harrington (**1984**). //Mephisto III//. Personal Computer World, [|April 1984] » Mephisto
 * Tony Harrington (**1984**). //Mephisto's dual edge//. Personal Computer World, [|May 1984] » Mephisto
 * Tony Harrington (**1984**). //An elitist game//. Personal Computer World, [|September 1984] » Elite
 * Tony Harrington (**1984**). //Look back in dismay - Report of WMCCC 1984//. Personal Computer World, [|December 1984] » WMCCC 1984

=External Links=
 * [|Personal Computer World from Wikipedia]
 * [|Personal Computer World] from [|The Centre for Computing History]
 * [|Personal Computer World - index 1978-June 1989]
 * [|Publication Archive] from [|Chess Computer UK] by Mike Watters
 * [|Microcomputing, British Style | Modern Mechanix]
 * [|What happened to PCW magazine | An Obituary] by [|Gordon Laing]

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