MCCT+1978

the World's **First Microcomputer Chess Tournament** took place from March 3-5, 1978, during the Second [|West Coast Computer Faire], [|San Jose Convention Center], [|San Jose, California]. At the ACM 1977, David Levy made the suggestion to organize a Microcomputer Chess Tournament to Douglas Penrod, editor of the Computer Chess Newsletter. Therefor, the Second West Coast Computer Faire hosted the event, announced January 1978 in the //Silicon Gulch Gazette//, a free publication associated with the Faire, edited by [|Jim Warren]. Larry Wagner, at that time affiliated with [|Atari], served as tournament director. The winning program, called Sargon, was a 16 Kbyte Z-80 assembler program written by a husband and wife team, Kathe and Dan Spracklen. || toc =Final Standing=
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 * [[image:SanJoseCC.JPG]] ||~  || **MCCT 1978**,
 * [|San Jose Convention Center] ||~  ||^   ||
 * ~ # ||~ Program ||~ R1 ||~ R2 ||~ R3 ||~ R4 ||~ R5 ||~ R6 ||~ P ||~ Class ||
 * ~ 1 ||< Sargon ||> 9_1 ||> 4_1 ||>  ||> 5_1 ||> 2_1 ||> 8_1 ||~ 5 ||> A - 1 ||
 * ~ 2 ||< Commodore ChessMate ||>  ||> 8_½ ||> 3_1 ||> 9_½ ||> 1_0 ||> 5_1 ||~ 3 ||> B - 1 ||
 * ~ 3 ||< Boris ||> 5_½ ||>  ||> 2_0 ||> bye½ ||> 9_1 ||> 4_1 ||~ 3 ||> B - 1 ||
 * ~ 4 ||< Chess Challenger ||> 6_1 ||> 1_0 ||>  ||> 8_1 ||> 7_1 ||> 3_0 ||~ 3 ||> B - 1 ||
 * ~ 5 ||< 8080 Chess ||> 3_½ ||> 10_1 ||>  ||> 1_0 ||> 8_1 ||> 2_0 ||~ 2½ ||> A - 2 ||
 * ~ 6 ||< SD Chess ||> 4_0 ||> 9_0 ||>  ||> 11_1 ||>   ||> 7_1 ||~ 2 ||> C - 1 ||
 * ~ 7 ||< Tenberg Basic Chess ||> 11_1 ||>  ||>   ||> 10_1 ||> 4_0 ||> 6_0 ||~ 2 ||> C - 1 ||
 * ~ 8 ||< Steve Stuart Chess ||> 10_1 ||> 2_½ ||>  ||> 4_0 ||> 5_0 ||> 1_0 ||~ 1½ ||> B - 2 ||
 * ~ 9 ||< CompuChess ||> 1_0 ||> 6_1 ||>  ||> 2_½ ||> 3_0 ||>   ||~ 1½ ||> B - 2 ||
 * ~ 10 ||< Compucolor Chess ||> 8_0 ||> 5_0 ||>  ||> 7_0 ||>   ||> 11_1 ||~ 1 ||> A - 3 ||
 * ~ 11 ||< Mark Watson Chess ||> 7_0 ||>  ||>   ||> 6_0 ||>   ||> 10_0 ||~ 0 ||> C - 2 ||
 * Class A Microcomputers with 8K or more of memory
 * Class B Microcomputers with less than 8K of memory
 * Class C Programs running in Basic

=SD Chess=
 * [[image:SD-Chess.JPG link="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal"]] ||
 * Ira Baxter's SD Chess ||

=Publications=
 * [|Jim Warren] (**1978**). //Microcomputer Chess Tournament Announcement//. [|Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 2, January 24, 1978, pp. 4
 * Larry Wagner (**1978**). //Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament//. [|Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9
 * Douglas Penrod (**1978**). //Micro chess tourney//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 112
 * [|Chris Morgan] (**1978**). //[|The Second West Coast Computer Faire]//. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7
 * Larry Wagner (**1978**). //San Jose Micro Tournament//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 87
 * Editor (**1978**). //Some San Jose Color//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 82 » Compucolor Chess, Steve Stuart Chess
 * Editor (**1978**). //Chessboard fray at Jose Color//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp. 84 » 8080 Chess, Sargon
 * Kathe Spracklen (**1979**). //The Playing of Sargon//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 70 » Sargon
 * [|Gardner Hendrie] (**2005**). //Oral History of Kathe and Dan Spracklen//. [|pdf] and [|Video] from The Computer History Museum
 * Rob van Son (**2011**). //De Assyrische krijgsman die vaak won!// (Dutch) [|pdf] hosted by Hein Veldhuis

=External Links=
 * [|The Second West Coast Computer Faire | Modern Mechanix]

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