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ACM's 23rd North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held February 14-17, 1993, Hyatt Regency Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Throughout the tournament, Robert Levinson demonstrated his learning program Morph [1]. Tony Marsland served as moderator of a panel discussion entitled "Computer Chess: What Remains?".
Hyatt Regency Indianapolis [2]

Final Standing

[3]
#
 Name
 CC
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 P
 SOS
 SoDOS
1
 Socrates II [4]
 US
 12b1
 6w1
 2b½
 10w1
 7b1
 4½
 10½
 8¾
2
 Cray Blitz
 US
 9w1
 10b1
 1w½
 6b½
 3b½
 3½
 14½
 9½
3
 *Tech
 US
 5w1
 4w½
 10b0
 11b1
 2w½
 3
 12½
 7¼
4
 B*Hitech
 US
 11w1
 3b½
 5w0
 8b½
 6w1
 3
 12
 6¼
5
 Zarkov
 US
 3b0
 11w1
 4b1
 7w0
 10b1
 3
 11½
 6
6
 ChessMachine Schroder
 NL
 7w1
 1b0
 8w1
 2w½
 4b0
 2½
 16
 6¾
7
 Kallisto
 NL
 6b0
 12w1
 9b½
 5b1
 1w0
 2½
 12½
 4¼
8
 BP
 US
 10w0
 9b1
 6b0
 4w½
 12w1
 2½
 10
 4
9
 Now
 US
 2b0
 8w0
 7w½
 12b1
 11w1
 2½
 9½
 2¼
10
 M-Chess Pro
 US
 8b1
 2w0
 3w1
 1b0
 5w0
 2
 16½
 5½
11
 Bebe
 US
 4b0
 5b0
 12w1
 3w0
 9b0
 1
 11½
 0
12
 Innovation
 US
 1w0
 7b0
 11b0
 9w0
 8b0
 0
 13
 0

Participants

[5]
Program
 CC
 Team
 Hardware
 Language
Bebe
 US
 Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer
 SYS-10 bit slice hardware
 Assembly
BP
 US
 Robert Cullum
 486/50 PC
 C, Assembly
B*Hitech
 US
 Hans Berliner, Chris McConnell,
Carl Ebeling
 Sun-4
special purpose hardware
 Microcode, Assembly
ChessMachine Schroder
 NL
 Ed Schröder, Jan Louwman
 Laptop with ARM2 ISA card
 Assembly
Cray Blitz
 US
 Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower,
Harry Nelson
 Cray Y-MP-8
 Fortran, C, Assembly
Innovation
 US
 Jeff Mallett
 Macintosh Quadra 68040
 C
Kallisto
 NL
 Bart Weststrate, Franz van de Eng
 486/50 PC
 Assembly
M-Chess Pro
 US
 Marty Hirsch
 486 PC
 C, Assembly
Now
 US
 Mark Lefler
 486 PC
 Pascal, Assembly
Socrates II
 US
 Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman,
c/o Julio Kaplan
 486 PC
 C
*Tech
 US
 Bradley Kuszmaul, Charles Leiserson,
Ryan Rifkin
 Connection Machine CM-5
 C
Zarkov
 US
 John Stanback
 HP 9000/835
 C

Selected Games

Round 2, M-Chess Pro - Cray Blitz [6] [7] [8]
[Event "ACM 1993"]
[Site "Indianapolis, IN USA"]
[Date "1993.02.14"]
[Round "2"]
[White "M-Chess Pro"]
[Black "Cray Blitz"]
[Result "0-1"]
 
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Bc4 gxf3 7.O-O d5 8.exd5 Bg4
9.Qd2 Na5 10.Bb5+ c6 11.Qxf4 Nf6 12.Re1+ Kd7 13.dxc6+ bxc6 14.Ne4 Nxe4 15.Qxg4+
Kc7 16.Rxe4 cxb5 17.Qxf3 Qd7 18.Rf4 Be7 19.Rxf7 Raf8 20.Bf4+ Kb6 21.Be5 Rhg8
22.c3 Nc6 23.Re1 Qe8 24.Rxf8 Qxf8 25.Qd5 Rg5 26.a4 bxa4 27.c4 Nxe5 28.Rxe5 Rxe5
29.Qxe5 Qd8 30.c5+ Kb5 31.Qe2+ Kb4 32.Qd3 Bf6 33.Qc3+ Kb5 34.Qd3+ Kc6 35.Qf3+
Kd7 36.Qe4 Qe7 37.Qb7+ Ke8 38.Qa8+ Qd8 39.Qc6+ Kf7 40.Qb7+ Kf8 41.d5 Qe7 42.Qb8+
Kf7 43.Kf1 Bxb2 44.g4 Bc3 45.Kf2 Qxc5+ 46.Kf1 Qc4+ 47.Kf2 Qd4+ 48.Kf3 Qd1+
49.Ke3 Bd2+ 50.Kf2 Qe1+ 51.Kg2 Qe2+ 0-1

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References

  1. ^ Robert Levinson, John Amenta (1993). MORPH, An Experience-Based Adaptive Chess System. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, reprinted in The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
  2. ^ Hyatt Regency Indianapolis, indianapolis.com
  3. ^ ACM 1993 CSVN site
  4. ^ Larry Kaufman (1993). PC Software. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9
  5. ^ The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
  6. ^ ACM 1993 23rd CCC game set by Steven Edwards, rec.games.chess, February 20, 1993
  7. ^ Computer evolution, a little game collection by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, April 21, 2014
  8. ^ The M-Chess Pro vs. Cray Blitz game was used by Robert Hyatt for 24 test positions to determine the speedup of Dynamic Tree Splitting, see The DTS high-performance parallel tree search algorithm by Robert Hyatt
  9. ^ Computer evolution from chessgames.com

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ACM 1993 Oct 30, 2017
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ACM North American Computer Chess Championship Jun 13, 2015
B* Nov 27, 2017
Bebe Dec 23, 2017
BP Jan 7, 2016
Connection Machine Oct 12, 2016
Danny Kopec Oct 1, 2016
Deniz Yuret Aug 9, 2016
Don Dailey Dec 7, 2016
Dynamic Tree Splitting Apr 10, 2017
HiTech Mar 31, 2018
ICGA Journal Dec 21, 2017
Innovation Jun 12, 2016
James Schuyler Feb 19, 2012
Kallisto Oct 28, 2017
Kasparov's Gambit Dec 7, 2016
Mini Jan 7, 2016
Monroe Newborn Dec 23, 2017
Now Jan 7, 2016
Ryan Rifkin Oct 12, 2016
Socrates Jul 3, 2018
StarTech Oct 20, 2016
Titan Jul 3, 2018
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Oct 12, 2016
Zarkov Feb 26, 2018

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