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		ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC), Dallas, Texas, USA, October 25-27, 1987. The tournament was held in conjunction with the ACM Fall Joint Computer Conference in the Dallas Infomart [1] along with a Computer Chess Workshop [2] .
Dallas Infomart [3]

Final Standing

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#	Name	CC	1	2	3	4	P	SOS	G
1	ChipTest m	US	5w1	4b1	2b1	3w1	4	10½	4
2	Cray Blitz	US	7w1	6b1	1w0	5w1	3	10	4
3	Sun Phoenix	CA	10w1	8b1	6w1	1b0	3	10	4
4	Lachex	US	12b1	1w0	11b½	7b1	2½	8½	4
5	Cyrus 68K	GB	1b0	9w1	8w1	2b0	2	11	4
6	Bebe	US	11b1	2w0	3b0	12w1	2	8½	4
7	Novag	US	2b0	13w1	12b1	4w0	2	7½	4
8	Belle	US	9b1	3w0	5b0	bye	2	7	3
9	Waycool	US	8w0	5b0	13b1	11w1	2	6½	4
10	GNU Chess	US	3b0	11w0	bye	13b1	2	5½	3
11	BP	US	6w0	10b1	4w½	9b0	1½	8½	4
12	Ostrich	CA	4w0	bye	7w0	6b0	1	6½	3
13	Greco	US	bye	7b0	9w0	10w0	1	6	3

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores

Participants

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Program	CC	Team		Hardware	Language
Bebe	US	Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer		SYS-10 bit slice hardware	Assembly
Belle	US	Ken Thompson, Joe Condon		PDP-11/23 + special hardware	C
BP	US	Robert Cullum		Compaq 386	C, Assembly
ChipTest m	US	Thomas Anantharaman, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell		Sun-3 + high speed move generator	C
Cray Blitz	US	Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower, Harry Nelson		Cray X-MP 4/8	Fortran, Assembly
Cyrus 68K	GB	Mark Taylor, David Levy		68020 based micro	Assembly
GNU Chess	US	Stuart Cracraft, John Stanback, Jay Scott, Jim Aspnes		VAX 8650	C
Greco	US	David Stafford		8086 IBM PC	C
Lachex	US	Tony Warnock, Burton Wendroff		Cray X-MP 4/16	Fortran, Assembly
Novag	US	David Kittinger		6502 bit sliced micro	Assembly
Ostrich	CA	Monty Newborn		1 x Eclipse, 7 x Nova 4	Assembly
Sun Phoenix	CA	Jonathan Schaeffer, Marius Olafsson		20 Sun-3 68020	C
Waycool	US	Ed Felten, Steve Otto, Rod Morison, Rob Fatland		nCUBE 10 512 Proc.	C

• CC Country Codes

Two remarkable Games

• Chiptest-m vs Sun Phoenix : https://en.lichess.org/VI9Hu071
• Cray Blitz vs Chiptest-m : https://en.lichess.org/P1qnUNS3

See also

• Cartoons by Jeff Ragsdale
• WMCCC 1986

Publications

Tournament

• The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, as pdf
• Garth E. Courtois Jr., Ken Thompson (1987). ACM's 18th North American Computer-Chess Championship (NACCC). Dallas, Texas, October 25-27, 1987, ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4
• Larry Kaufman (1988). ACM 1987 North American Computer-Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports 1987-88 pp. 9
• Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (1988). Results of ACM's Eighteenth Computer Chess Championship. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 8, pdf

Workshop

• Tony Marsland (1987). Workshop Report: Theory and Practice in Computer Chess. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4 ^[7]
  
  

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External Links

• ACM 1987 CSVN side

• 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. ^ The 1987 Fall Joint Computer Conference Infomart - Dallas, Texas, October 25-29, 1987 (pdf)
2. ^ 1987 Computer Chess Championship at FJCC
3. ^ Infomart from Wikipedia
4. ^ ACM 1987 CSVN side
5. ^ The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, as pdf
6. ^ Cartoons by Jeff Ragsdale, published in various issues of ICCA Journal in 1987, 1988 and 1989
7. ^ pdf, Courtesy of Tony Marsland, March 25, 2013

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