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ACM's 24th North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held as a special event at the Sixth Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architecture [1], June 25-27, 1994, Grand Hotel, Cape May, New Jersey, USA.
Grand Hotel [2]

Final Standing

[3]
#
 Name
 CC
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 P
 SOS
 SoDOS
1
 Deep Thought II
 US
 2w1
 [4] 5b0
 7w1
 3b1
 5b1
 4
 13½
 11
2
 Zarkov
 US
 1b0
 6b1
 4w1
 5b½
 3w1
 3½
 15
 9¾
3
 Star Socrates
 US
 10w1
 7b1
 5w1
 1w0
 2b0
 3
 12½
 5
4
 Now
 US
 6w½
 10b½
 2b0
 8w1
 9b1
 3
 10½
 5½
5
 Mchess Pro
 US
 8b1
 1w1
 3b0
 2w½
 1w0
 2½
 16½
 7¾
6
 Cray Blitz
 US
 4b½
 2w0
 9w1
 7b0
 10w1
 2½
 11
 4
7
 WChess
 US
 9w1
 3w0
 1b0
 6w1
 8b0
 2
 13½
 4½
8
 Evaluator
 US
 5w0
 9b0
 10w1
 4b0
 7w1
 2
 10
 2½
9
 Innovation II
 US
 7b0
 8w1
 6b0
 10b1
 4w0
 2
 10
 2½
10
 Spector
 US
 3b0
 4w½
 8b0
 9w0
 6b0
 ½
 12½
 1½

Participants

[5]
Cray Blitz
 US
 Robert Hyatt, Harry Nelson, Albert Gower
 Cray Y-MP-8
 Fortran, C, Assembly
Deep Thought II [6]
 US
 Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell,
Joe Hoane
 RS/6000 580
& 16 custom chess processors
 C, Microcode
Evaluator
 US
 Bill MacLaughlin
 486DX4/100 PC
 C
Innovation II
 US
 Jeff Mallett
 Mac PowerPC
 C
Mchess Pro
 US
 Marty Hirsch
 Pentium/60 PC
 C, Assembly
Now
 US
 Mark Lefler
 486/50 PC
 Pascal, Assembly
Spector
 US
 Steven Edwards
 486DX2/66 PC
 C
Star Socrates
 US
 Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, c/o Julio Kaplan
Robert Blumofe, Eric Brewer, Michael Halbherr,
Chris Joerg, Bradley Kuszmaul,
Charles Leiserson, Yuli Zhou
 Connection Machine CM-5
 C, Cilk
WChess
 US
 David Kittinger, James Parker
 Pentium/90 PC
 C
Zarkov
 US
 John Stanback
 HP 9000/735
 C

Selected Games

Round 4

Round 4, WChess - Cray Blitz
[Event "ACM 1993"]
[Site "Cape May USA"]
[Date "1994.06.26"]
[Round "4"]
[White "WChess"]
[Black "Cray Blitz"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be2 a6 7.O-O Qc7 8.f4 Be7
9.Be3 Nc6 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Qd3 O-O 12.Rad1 Bb7 13.Kh1 Rad8 14.Rd2 e5 15.h3 
exf4 16.Bxf4 Kh8 17.Qg3 Ne8 18.Qe3 Rb8 19.Na4 f6 20.c4 Qa5 21.b3 Rd8 22.c5 
dxc5 23.Rxd8 Bxd8 24.Rd1 Bc7 25.Bxc7 Nxc7 26.Qxc5 Qxc5 27.Nxc5 Bc8 28.Bc4 
a5 29.Rd6 Nb5 30.Rxc6 Nd4 31.Rd6 Nc2 32.Bd3 Ne3 33.Bb1 f5 34.exf5 h5 35.Ne6 
Bxe6 36.fxe6 Rf1+ 37.Kh2 Rxb1 38.Rd8+ Kh7 39.e7 Nf1+ 40.Kg1 Ng3+ 41.Kf2 Ne4+ 
42.Ke2 Rb2+ 43.Kd3 Nf6 44.Rf8 Rb1 45.Rxf6 Re1 46.Rf5 Kg6 47.e8=Q+ Rxe8 
48.Rxa5 Re1 49.h4 Rd1+ 50.Kc2 Rh1 51.g3 Kh6 52.a4 Rf1 53.Rd5 Rf3 54.a5 Rxg3 
55.a6 Rg2+ 56.Rd2 Rg1 57.Rd4 Rg2+ 58.Kd3 Rg3+ 59.Kc4 Re3 1-0

Round 5

Round 5, Zarkov - Star Socrates 
[Event "ACM 1993"]
[Site "Cape May USA"]
[Date "1994.06.27"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Zarkov"]
[Black "Star Socrates"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.dxe5 d5 5.Be3 Bg4 6.h3 Be6 7.Nbd2 Qe7
8.c3 Nc6 9.Nxe4 dxe4 10.Ng5 Rd8 11.Qa4 Bd5 12.O-O-O Qxe5 13.Bb5 Be7
14.c4 Bxc4 15.Bxc6+ bxc6 16.Qxc6+ Kf8 17.Nxh7+ Rxh7 18.Rxd8+ Bxd8
19.Qxc4 a5 20.Rd1 Bf6 21.Qb3 g6 22.Rd5 Qe6 23.Rxa5 Qxb3 24.axb3 Ke7
25.Kc2 Kd7 26.b4 Rh5 27.b5 Rd5 28.Kb3 Rd3+ 29.Ka2 Bd4 30.Bxd4 Rxd4
31.Ra7 Rb4 32.Rb7 Kc8 33.Ka3 e3 34.fxe3 Re4 35.Ra7 Rxe3+ 36.Kb4 Re2
37.g4 Rxb2+ 38.Kc5 Rb3 39.Ra8+ Kb7 40.Rh8 Rd3 41.Rf8 Rf3 42.Kd5 Kb6
43.Ke4 Rf1 44.Rb8+ Ka7 45.Rc8 Kb7 46.Rd8 Rh1 47.Rd3 Kb6 48.Rb3 f6
49.Kd5 Rf1 50.Ke6 f5 51.g5 Rd1 52.h4 Rd6+ 53.Ke5 f4 54.Kxf4 Rd7 55.Ke5 Rf7
56.Rb4 Rf5+ 57.Ke6 Kc5 58.Re4 Kb6 59.Kd7 Kxb5 60.Kxc7 Kc5 61.Re6 Rf4
62.Rxg6 Rxh4 63.Rh6 Rg4 64.g6 Kd5 65.Kd7 Ke5 66.Ke7 Kf5 67.Kf7 Kg5
68.Rh1 Rf4+ 69.Kg7 Rg4 70.Kh7 Kf6 71.Rf1+ Ke7 72.g7 Rh4+ 73.Kg8 Rh3
74.Rf7+ Ke8 75.Rf5 Ke7 76.Re5+ Kf6 77.Re1 Rc3 78.Rh1 Rc7 79.Kh8 1-0

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References

  1. ^ Proceedings of the sixth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
  2. ^ Grand Hotel Cape May - Home
  3. ^ ACM 1994 CSVN site
  4. ^ Heavy rain induced power outage at Hawthorne, NY. [4 inches in one hour.] Possibility of rescheduling was discussed. MChess decided to take a time forfeit win. DT2 games in ACM 94 by Feng-Hsiung Hsu, rgc, June 29, 1994
  5. ^ The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
  6. ^ Deep Thought II incorporated Ken Thompson's 5 Piece Databases

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Page Date Edited
ACM 1993 Oct 30, 2017
ACM 1994 May 5, 2017
ACM North American Computer Chess Championship Jun 13, 2015
Connection Machine Oct 12, 2016
Don Dailey Dec 7, 2016
Eric Brewer Oct 12, 2016
Eric Schiller Dec 5, 2016
Evaluator Jun 5, 2013
Feng-hsiung Hsu Dec 27, 2016
ICGA Journal Dec 21, 2017
Innovation Jun 12, 2016
Monroe Newborn Dec 23, 2017
Now Jan 7, 2016
Spector Nov 11, 2016
Star Socrates Oct 12, 2016
Steven Edwards Aug 26, 2017
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Oct 12, 2016
WChess Jan 7, 2016
Zarkov Feb 26, 2018

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