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The ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) took place from October 7-9, 1984 at the Imperial Ballroom of the Hilton San Francisco and Tower Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Hilton and Towers Hotel [1]

Final Standing

[2]
#
 Program
 CC
 1
 2
 3
 4
 P
 SOS
 SoDOS
1
 Cray Blitz
 US
 3w1
 4b1
 2w1
 6b1
 4
 11
 11
2
 Bebe
 US
 12b1
 10w1
 1b0
 8w1
 3
 8½
 4½
3
 Fidelity X
 US
 1b0
 11w1
 9b1
 10w1
 3
 8½
 4½
4
 CHAOS
 US
 11b1
 1w0
 13b1
 7w1
 3
 8
 4
5
 Belle
 US
 7b½
 6w0
 12b1
 13w1
 2½
 6
 3
6
 Nuchess
 US
 8w½
 5b1
 7w½
 1w0
 2
 10½
 4½
7
 Phoenix
 CA
 5w½
 9w1
 6b½
 4b0
 2
 9½
 4¼
8
 Novag X
 US
 6b½
 12w1
 10b½
 2b0
 2
 7½
 2¾
9
 Intelligent Chess Software
 GB
 13b1
 7b0
 3w0
 11w1
 2
 7
 2
10
 Schach 2.7
 DE
 14w1
 2b0
 8w½
 3b0
 1½
 8
 1
11
 Ostrich
 CA
 4w0
 3b0
 14w1
 9b0
 1
 8
 0
12
 Awit
 CA
 2w0
 8b0
 5w0
 14b1
 1
 7½
 0
13
 Merlin
 AT
 9w0
 14b1
 4w0
 5b0
 1
 7½
 0
14
 Xenarbor
 US
 10b0
 13w0
 11b0
 12w0
 0
 4½
 0

Participants

[3]
Program
 CC
 Team
 Hardware
 Language
Awit
 CA
 Tony Marsland
 Amdahl 5860/2
 Algol W
Bebe
 US
 Tony Scherzer
 Bit slice chess hardware
 Assembly
Belle
 US
 Ken Thompson, Joe Condon
 PDP-11/23 + special hardware
 C
CHAOS
 US
 Mike Alexander, Fred Swartz,
Jack O’Keefe, Victor Berman
 Amdahl 5860
 Fortran
Cray Blitz
 US
 Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower,
Harry Nelson
 Cray X-MP4
 Fortran, CAL
Fidelity X
 US
 Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen,
Boris Baczynskyj
 6502 system
 Assembly
Intelligent Chess Software
 GB
 Mark Taylor, Richard Lang,
David Levy, Kevin O’Connell
 6502 Apple IIe
 Assembly
Merlin
 AT
 Hermann Kaindl, Marcus Wagner,
Helmut Horacek
 CDC Cyber 176
 Pascal
Novag X
 US
 David Kittinger, Scott McDonald
 6502 system
 Assembly
Nuchess
 US
 David Slate, William Blanchard
 Cray-1
 Fortran
Ostrich
 CA
 Monroe Newborn
 8-DG multiprocessing =
1 x Eclipse,
6 x Nova 4, 1 x Nova 3
 Assembly
Phoenix
 CA
 Jonathan Schaeffer
 VAX 11/780
 C
Schach 2.7
 DE
 Matthias Engelbach
 Burroughs 7800
 Algol
Xenarbor
 US
 Donald Miller
 IBM 3081 [4]
 Fortran

Photos & Games

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Linda and Tony Scherzer, Bob Henry and David Kittinger, Bebe vs. Novag X [5]
 
 [Event "15th ACM 1984"]
 [Site "San Francisco USA"]
 [Date "1984.10.09"]
 [Round "4"]
 [White "Bebe"]
 [Black "Novag X"]
 [Result "1-0"]
 
 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 d6 7.Ng5 d5 8.exd5 Nd4 9.d6 Nxb3
10.dxc7 Qxc7 11.axb3 h6 12.Nf3 e4 13.Re1 Be7 14.Nc3 exf3 15.Nxb5 Qc5 16.Qxf3 Qxb5
17.Qxa8 Qb7 18.Qxb7 Bxb7 19.d4 Kd7 20.c4 Bb4 21.Re2 Rd8 22.d5 Nxd5 23.cxd5 Bxd5
24.Rxa6 Bxb3 25.Re4 Bc5 26.Be3 Kc7 27.Ra1 Bd5 28.Bf4+ Kc6 29.Rea4 Be6 30.Be5 Rd2
31.Bxg7 Bxf2+ 32.Kh1 Bd5 33.Bc3 Rc2 34.Ra6+ Kc7 35.R6a5 Kc6 36.Ra6+ Kc7 37.R6a5 Kc6
38.Ra8 Bb6 39.Rg8 f5 40.Rg6+ Kb5 41.Rd1 Be4 42.Bd2 Rxb2 43.Bxh6 f4 44.Rg5+ Kc6
45.Rc1+ Kd6 46.Bg7 Rf2 47.Rd1+ Kc6 48.Be5 Be3 49.Rg4 Bc2 50.Ra1 Kd5 51.Bb8 f3
52.gxf3 Rxf3 53.Ra5+ Ke6 54.h4 Bf5 55.Rga4 Kf7 56.Kg2 Rf2+ 57.Kg3 Rf1 58.Bf4 Bf2+
59.Kg2 Bd3 60.Rd5 Be2 61.Rd7+ Kg6 62.h5+ Kxh5 63.Rd2 Bb6 64.Rxe2 Rg1+ 65.Kh2 Rb1
66.Rg2 Rb5 67.Ra6 Rf5 68.Kg3 Rf6 1-0

See also


Tournament Director


Publications


External Links


References

  1. ^ Hilton San Francisco & Towers, Downtown San Francisco, Photo by Eric in SF, February 09, 2008, Wikimedia Commons, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
  2. ^ ACM 1984 CSVN site
  3. ^ The Fifteenth ACM Computer Chess Championship, San Francisco California, October 7-9, 1984, pdf from The Computer History Museum
  4. ^ Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn (1985). ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 28, No. 7, reprinted in The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985, pdf from The Computer History Museum
  5. ^ Peggy Watt (1984). Mainframes checkmate Micros. InfoWorld, November 5, 1984, pp. 18, google books

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Page Date Edited
ACM 1983 Oct 14, 2014
ACM 1984 Jul 19, 2016
ACM 1985 Jun 21, 2017
ACM North American Computer Chess Championship Jun 13, 2015
Bebe Dec 23, 2017
Boris Baczynskyj Oct 1, 2016
David Kittinger Dec 27, 2017
Donald Miller Jan 21, 2012
Fidelity Jan 7, 2016
ICGA Journal Dec 21, 2017
Intelligent Chess Software Jan 8, 2016
Linda Scherzer Dec 8, 2016
Nuchess Apr 3, 2017
Phoenix May 8, 2017
Rule of the Square Sep 6, 2014
Schach Jan 7, 2016
Tony Marsland Nov 27, 2017
Xenarbor Sep 6, 2014

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