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=World Championships=
 * World Computer Chess Championship
 * World Chess Software Championship
 * World Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship
 * ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship

=Major Computer Chess Tournaments=  =Online Computer Chess Tournaments=  =Microcomputer Chess Tournaments=
 * ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championship
 * ACM North American Computer Chess Championship
 * Australasian National Computer Chess Championship
 * Computer Chess Championship of CIS Countries
 * CSVN Programmers Tournament
 * Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship
 * European Computer Chess Championship
 * French Computer Chess Championship
 * French Programmers Tournament
 * Hungarian Chessprogram Open
 * International CSVN Tournament
 * International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship
 * Italian Computer Chess Championship
 * Polish Computer Chess Championship
 * Spanish Computer Chess Championship
 * The Chess Programmers Tournament
 * Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship
 * United States Open Computer Chess Championship
 * ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championship
 * ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship
 * CCT Tournaments
 * CSVN Open Internet Tournament
 * International Gsei Web Tournaments
 * Online Engine Blitz Tourneys
 * American Microcomputer Chess Tournaments
 * European Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship
 * Various Microcomputer Chess Tournaments
 * World Microcomputer Chess Championship

=Various Tournaments=
 * First GI Computer Chess Tournament [|Dortmund] 1975
 * Jerusalem CC Tournament 1978
 * International Computer Chess Tournament 1984 in [|Baarn], [|The Netherlands]
 * Canadian Computer Chess Invitational Championship 1984
 * First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988
 * First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament 2001

=Private Tournaments=
 * Keck's Tournaments
 * TCEC

=Computer-Computer Matches=
 * Stanford-ITEP Match
 * [|Fritz-Junior 2000 match in Cadaques, qualif. to play Kramnik]
 * Shredder versus Hydra 2004
 * Deep Fritz versus Deep Junior 2007
 * Zappa versus Rybka 2007

=Man Computer Tournaments=  =Man Computer Matches= > [|4 live analyses on Youtube]
 * Aegon Tournaments
 * ANU Carbon-Silicon Tournaments 1994
 * Harvard Cup
 * Aubervilliers Open 1981 to 1999, rapid 30'
 * Netherlands vs Computers 8.5 - 3.5 April 1989
 * [|Deep Thought 2 scored 2.5 against 7 strong players (average : 2514), Hannover 1991]
 * [|Intel World Chess Express Challenge, Munich 1994 - 5 min blitz, Fritz won]
 * [|Intel Rapid Chess Grand Prix 1994, London - Genius eliminated Kasparov to reach the semifinal]
 * [|Israeli league allows 1 computer in team in 2000]
 * Closed titled tournaments in Argentina with 1 engine 2001-2009
 * [|Indochess Match - Titled players vs Machines : 1.5-14.5 in 2005]
 * Man vs Machine Team Championship (2004 and 2005)
 * Levy versus Chess 4.7 1978 (3½ - 1½)
 * Levy versus Cray Blitz 1984 (4 - 0)
 * Kasparov simul vs 32 micro Hamburg 1985
 * Kasparov versus Deep Thought 1989 (2 - 0)
 * Levy versus Deep Thought 1989 (0 - 4)
 * [|Bent Larsen vs Deep Blue, Copenhagen 1993 (2½ - 2½)]
 * [|Judit Polgar vs Deep Blue 1993 (½ - 1½)]
 * Kasparov versus Chess Genius, 25 min, 1994 (½ - 1½)
 * Kasparov versus Deep Blue, Philadelphia 1996 (4 - 2)
 * David Bronstein vs MChess Pro, 1996 (1½ - ½)
 * Kasparov versus Deep Blue, New York 1997 (2½ - 3½)
 * [|HIARCS 6.0 defeated I.M. Deen Hergott 4-2 in 1997]
 * [|Rebel vs Yusupov, Ischia 1997 (10½ - 6½)]
 * [|Rebel vs Anand, Italy 1998 (5-3)]
 * [|Rebel Monthly GM challenge (Various opponents) 1999-2000]
 * [|GM John van der Wiel vs REBEL 2001 (2½ - 3½)]
 * [|GM Loek van Wely vs REBEL, Maastricht February 2002 (2 - 2)]
 * [|Christiansen vs Chessmaster 9000] [|September 2002 (1½ - 2½)]
 * Kramnik vs Deep Fritz, Bahrain, October 2002 (4 - 4)
 * Bareev versus HIARCS 2003 (2 - 2)
 * Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003 (3 - 3)
 * Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003 (2-2)
 * Peter Heine Nielsen - ChessBrain, January 2004 (½ - ½)
 * [|Adams vs Hydra, London June 2005 (½ - 5½)]
 * Kramnik versus Deep Fritz, Bonn December 2006 (2 - 4)
 * [|Rybka odds matches vs grandmasters 2007-2008]
 * GM+Rybka vs. Stockfish 2014
 * [|Komodo handicap matches 2015-2016, various opponents, adjusted handicaps]
 * [|Komodo vs Nakamura, four-game odds match 2016 (2½ - 1½)]

=Computer Games Tournaments=
 * Computer Olympiad
 * TAAI
 * TCGA

=User Tournaments=
 * [|19. Computerschachturnier Thüringen 2010] May 11-15, 2010
 * [|20. Computerschachturnier Thüringen 2011] May 09-15, 2011

=See also= > Tournament Manager
 * Engine Rating Lists
 * Match Statistics

=Publications= >
 * Ben Mittman (**1977**). //A Brief History of Computer Chess Tournaments: 1970-1975//. Chess Skill in Man and Machine
 * Monty Newborn (**2011**). //[|Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere]//. [|Springer], ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, [|amazon]

=Forum Posts=
 * [|XBoard and epd tournament] by Vlad Stamate, CCC, January 31, 2010 » Chess Engine Communication Protocol, Engine Testing
 * [|To MODERATORS: Please STOP moving genuine tournaments!] by Dr. Torsten Schoop, CCC, May 23, 2016
 * [|sprt tourney manager] by Richard Delorme, CCC, January 24, 2017 » Amoeba Tournament Manager, SPRT
 * [|What is a Match?] by Henk van den Belt, CCC, September 01, 2017

=External Links=

Tournaments
> [|Downloads, Games]
 * [|ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Important games] hosted by Ed Schröder
 * [|Chess tournament from Wikipedia]
 * [|Human-computer chess matches from Wikipedia]
 * [|Computer Chess History Pages] © 2008 Computerschaak, CSVN
 * [|SPCC] by Stefan Pohl

Swiss System

 * [|Swiss-system tournament from Wikipedia]
 * [|Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments from Wikipedia]
 * [|Buchholz system from Wikipedia] (SOS)
 * [|Neustadtl score from Wikipedia] (SODos)
 * [|Sonneborn-Berger score (non-Neustadtl) from Wikipedia]

=References=
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