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The ACM's Seventh North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held on October 19 to 21, 1976 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Houston, Texas, USA [1] .
Hyatt Regency [2]

Final Standing

[3]
#
 Program
 CC
 1
 2
 3
 4
 P
 SOS
 SoDOS
 G
1
 Chess 4.5
 US
 6b1
 5w1
 3b1
 2w1
 4
 10
 10
 4
2
 CHAOS
 US
 8w1
 7b1
 5w1
 1b0
 3
 10
 6
 4
3
 Black Knight
 US
 9w1
 10b1
 1w0
 7b1
 3
 8
 4
 4
4
 Blitz 4
 US
 5b0
 bye1
 9w1
 6w1
 3
 5
 3
 3
5
 Duchess
 US
 4w1
 1b0
 2b0
 11w1
 2
 11
 4
 4
6
 Wita
 CA
 1w0
 9b1
 8w1
 4b0
 2
 10
 3
 4
7
 Chute 1.2
 CA
 11b1
 2w0
 10b1
 3w0
 2
 8
 2
 4
8
 L'Excentrique
 CA
 2b0
 11w1
 6b0
 10w1
 2
 7
 2
 4
9
 Etaoin Shrdlu
 US
 3b0
 6w0
 4b0
 bye1
 1
 8
 0
 3
10
 Chesstar
 US
 bye1
 3w0
 7w0
 8b0
 1
 7
 0
 3
11
 Xenarbor 4
 US
 7w0
 8b0
 bye1
 5b0
 1
 6
 0
 3

Participants

Name
 CC
 Authors
 Organization
 Hardware
Black Knight
 US
 Fred Prouse, Kenn Sogge,
Gary Maltzen, Lonny Lebahn
 Sperry Univac
 UNIVAC 1100
Blitz 4
 US
 Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower
 University of Southern Mississippi
 XDS Sigma 9
CHAOS
 US
 Mike Alexander, Victor Berman, Ira Ruben,
Fred Swartz, William Toikka, Joe Winograd
 University of Michigan
 UNIVAC 1108
Chess 4.5
 US
 David Slate, Larry Atkin
 Northwestern University
 CDC Cyber 175
Chesstar
 US
 Lincoln Shannon
Honeywell x16
Chute 1.2
 CA
 Michael Valenti, Zvonko Vranesic
 University of Toronto
 Amdahl
Duchess
 US
 Eric Jensen, Tom Truscott, Bruce Wright
 Duke University
 IBM 370
Etaoin Shrdlu
 US
 Garth Courtois Jr.
 Michigan State University
 Nova 1200
L'Excentrique
 CA
 Claude Jarry
 McGill University
 AMDAHL 470V/7
Wita
 CA
 Tony Marsland
 University of Alberta
 Amdahl
Xenarbor 4
 US
 Donald Miller
 Control Data
 IBM 370/158

Selected Games

Round 4, Chess 4.5 - CHAOS [4]
[Event "ACM 1976"]
[Site "Houston TX"]
[Date "1976.10.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chess 4.5"]
[Black "CHAOS"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Nxd5 cxd5 
9.Bd3 g6 10.O-O Bg7 11.Qe2 Bb7 12.b3 Qe7 13.a4 Qb4 14.Ba3 Qc3 15.f4 f6 16.Bd6 f5 
17.a5 Kf7 18.Qf2 Bf8 19.Bxf8 Rhxf8 20.Qh4 Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Kg7 22.b4 Qxb4 23.Rab1 Qxa5 
24.Rxb7 Qa4 25.Bb5 1-0

Tournament Director


Reports


External Links


References

  1. ^ SIGART Newsletter No. 58, June 1976 - 7th U.S. Computer Chess Championship (pdf)
  2. ^ Hyatt Regency Houston designed by John Portman, Photo by WhisperToMe, Wikimedia Commons, Hyatt Regency Houston from Wikipedia
  3. ^ ACM 1976 CSVN site
  4. ^ Important games - The North American Championship hosted by Ed Schröder

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ACM North American Computer Chess Championship Jun 13, 2015
Black Knight Dec 25, 2017
Blitz Dec 23, 2017
Boris Stilman Apr 30, 2015
CDC Cyber Dec 22, 2017
CHAOS Dec 28, 2017
Chess (Program) Dec 22, 2017
Chesstar Dec 27, 2017
Chute Dec 21, 2017
David Levy Jan 3, 2017
ETAOIN SHRDLU Jan 6, 2016
Garth Courtois Jr. Jan 9, 2016
L'Excentrique Jan 7, 2016
Lincoln Shannon Dec 28, 2017
Michael Valenti Dec 21, 2017
Xenarbor Sep 6, 2014

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