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 * [[image:sheraton_boston.jpg link="http://boston-hotels.travelape.com/sheraton-boston-hotel.html"]] ||~  || The ACM's **Third North American Computer Chess Championship** (NACCC) was held from August 13 to 15, 1972 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, [|Boston], [|Massachusetts] . ||
 * Sheraton Boston Hotel ||~  ||^   ||
 * ~ # ||~ Program ||~  ||~ 1 ||~   ||~ 2 ||~   ||~ 3 ||~ P ||~ SOS ||~ SoDOS ||~ Playoff ||
 * ~ 1 || Chess 3.6 ||~  ||> 4w1 ||~   ||> 3b1 ||~   ||> 2w1 ||~ 3 ||= 6 ||= 6 ||   ||~ 1 ||
 * ~ 2 || Tech ||~  ||> 5b1 ||~   ||> 6w1 ||~   ||> 1b0 ||~ 2 ||= 5 ||= 2 || 4b0,3w1 ||~ 3 ||
 * ~ 3 || Coko III ||~  ||> 7b1 ||~   ||> 1w0 ||~   ||> 6b1 ||~ 2 ||= 4½ ||= 1½ || 2b0,4w0 ||~ 4 ||
 * ~ 4 || Ostrich ||~  ||> 1b0 ||~   ||> 7w1 ||~   ||> 5b1 ||~ 2 ||= 4½ ||= 1½ || 2w1,3b1 ||~ 2! ||
 * ~ 5 || Schach ||~  ||> 2w0 ||~   ||> 8b1 ||~   ||> 4w0 ||~ 1 ||= 4½ ||= ½ ||   ||~   ||
 * ~ 6 || USC CP ||~  ||> 8w1 ||~   ||> 2b0 ||~   ||> 3w0 ||~ 1 ||= 4½ ||= ½ ||   ||~   ||
 * ~ 7 || MSU CP ||~  ||> 3w0 ||~   ||> 4b0 ||~   ||> 8w½ ||~ ½ ||= 4½ ||= ¼ ||   ||~   ||
 * ~ 8 || Leverett CP ||~  ||> 6b0 ||~   ||> 5w0 ||~   ||> 7b½ ||~ ½ ||= 2½ ||= ¼ ||   ||~   ||
 * SOS: [|Sum of Opponent Scores]
 * SoDOS: [|Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores]

=Participants= Charles Kalme || IBM 370/155 ||  ||
 * ~ Program ||~ Team ||~ Hardware ||~ Language ||
 * Chess 3.6 || Larry Atkin, Keith Gorlen, David Slate || CDC 6400 || Fortran IV, COMPASS ||
 * Coko III || Dennis Cooper, Ed Kozdrowicki || UNIVAC 1108 || Fortran ||
 * Leverett CP || Bruce W. Leverett || PDP-10 ||  ||
 * MSU CP || Mike Rackley, George Moore || UNIVAC 1106 ||  ||
 * Ostrich || George Arnold, Monroe Newborn || Nova 800 || Assembly ||
 * Schach || Rolf C. Smith, Franklin D. Ceruti || IBM 360/65 || Fortran IV ||
 * Tech || Jim Gillogly || PDP-10 || [|BLISS] ||
 * USC CP || Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson,

=Tournament Director=
 * David Levy

=Publications= > Chapter VII. The Third United States Computer Chess Championship
 * [|Computers Compete in Sheraton Chess Match] by [|Peter Koretsky], [|The Harvard Crimson], August 22, 1972
 * Woodrow W. Bledsoe (**1972**). //[|Computer Chess Championship in Boston]//. ACM SIGART Bulletin, No. 34
 * //Schach-Computer: Bitteres Ende//, [|Der Spiegel] 36/1972, September 1972, [|pdf] hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German)
 * Monroe Newborn (**1975**). //Computer Chess//. [|Academic Press], New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.
 * Editor, Ben Mittman (**1978**). //Echoes from the past//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 84

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