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		The ACM's Thirteenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held from October, 24 to 26, 1982 at the Dallas Hilton Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA [1] .
Dallas Hilton [2]

Final Standing

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#	Program	CC	1	2	3	4	P	SOS	SoDOS
1	Belle	US	9w½	4b1	3w1	2b½	3	10½	8¼
2	Cray Blitz	US	7b1	5w½	8b1	1w½	3	9½	6¾
3	Nuchess	US	10b1	8w1	1b0	5w1	3	9	6
4	CHAOS	US	14b1	1w0	7b1	9w1	3	6½	3½
5	Bebe	US	12w1	2b½	6w1	3b0	2½	10	5½
6	Advance 2.4	GB	11w½	9b1	5b0	10w1	2½	7	3¾
7	Savant X	US	2w0	11b1	4w0	13b1	2	8½	2½
8	Fidelity X	US	13w1	3b0	2w0	12b1	2	8½	2½
9	Ostrich	CA	1b½	6w0	11w1	4b0	1½	10	3
10	Schach 2.6	DE	3w0	13b1	12w½	6b0	1½	8	1¾
11	Sfinks X	US	6b½	7w0	9b0	14w1	1½	6	1¼
12	Philidor	GB	5b0	14w1	10b½	8w0	1½	6	¾
13	Pion	NL	8b0	10w0	14b1	7w0	1	5½	0
14	Chaturanga 2.0	US	4w0	12b0	13w0	11b0	0	7	0

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
• SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

Participants

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Program	CC	Team	Hardware	Language
Advance 2.4	GB	Dave Wilson, Mike Johnson	6502 based System	Assembly
Bebe	US	Tony Scherzer	Bit Slice Chess hardware	Assembly
Belle	US	Ken Thompson, Joe Condon	PDP-11/23, LSI-11 with custom boards	C
CHAOS	US	Mike Alexander, Fred Swartz, Jack O’Keefe, Mark Hersey	AMDAHL 470V/8	Fortran
Chaturanga 2.0	US	John Poduska, Jr.	68000 based Apollo workstation	Pascal
Cray Blitz	US	Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower, Harry Nelson	Cray-1	Fortran IV
Fidelity X	US	Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Boris Baczynskyj	6502 based System	Assembly
Nuchess	US	David Slate, William Blanchard	CDC Cyber 175	Fortran
Ostrich	CA	Monroe Newborn	8-Nova Multiprocessing System	Assembly
Philidor	GB	David Broughton, David Levy, Kevin O’Connell, Mark Taylor, Mike Johnson	Z80 Osborne 1	Assembly
Pion	NL	Jan Derksen, John Huisman, Jaap van den Herik, Harry Nefkens, Sito Dekker	PDP-11/70	C
Savant X	US	David Kittinger	Z80 based System	Assembly
Schach 2.6	DE	Matthias Engelbach	Burroughs 7800	Algol
Sfinks X	US	William Fink	Z80 TRS-80	Assembly

• CC Country Codes

Photos

Game room, round four [5]
Ken Thompson receives top prize, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn and Robert Hyatt (right) look on [6]

See also

• Pion's ACM 1982 Experience

Tournament Director

• Mike Valvo

Reports

• The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship (labeled 22nd ACM), pdf from The Computer History Museum, pdf from Danny Kopec, covers ACM 1982
• Ben Mittman (1983). ACM's Thirteenth North American Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newletter, Vol. 6, No. 1
• CSVN PAGINA2 - Schaakcomputers achterna by Tom Fürstenberg (Dutch) ^[7]

External Links

• ACM 1982 CSVN site

• North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
• Important games hosted by Ed Schröder
• ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall

References

1. ^ Ben Mittman (1982). Tournament News - The Thirteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newletter, Vol. 5, No. 1
2. ^ Dallas Hilton, in 1982 the Plaza, today operating as the Dallas Hotel Indigo, Downtown Dallas, Photo by M.I.B., July 28, 2010, Wikimedia Commons, Dallas Hilton from Wikipedia
3. ^ ACM 1982 CSVN site
4. ^ Ben Mittman (1983). ACM's Thirteenth North American Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newletter, Vol. 6, No. 1
5. ^ archive.computerhistory.org - /resources/still-image from The Computer History Museum
6. ^ Mittman, Newborn and Thompson at the 13th North American Computer Chess Championship in Dallas, Texas from The Computer History Museum
7. ^ Pion's ACM 1982 Experience

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