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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted the first major chess tournament for computers, the 1st ACM United States Computer Chess Championship, in September 1970 in New York. The event was organized by Monroe Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University. The ACM chess events, in 1975 renamed the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, and in 1991 the ACM International Computer Chess Championship, were canceled in 1995 as Deep Blue was preparing for the first match against world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

Edition	Event	Origin	Participants	Champion
1st	ACM 1970	New York	6	Chess 3.0
2nd	ACM 1971	Chicago	8	Chess 3.5
3rd	ACM 1972	Boston	8	Chess 3.6
4th	ACM 1973	Atlanta	12	Chess 4.0
5th	ACM 1974	San Diego	12	Ribbit
6th	ACM 1975	Minneapolis	12	Chess 4.4
7th	ACM 1976	Houston	11	Chess 4.5
8th	ACM 1977	Seattle	12	Chess 4.6
9th	ACM 1978	Washington, D.C	12	Belle
10th	ACM 1979	Detroit	12	Chess 4.9
11th	ACM 1980	Nashville	10	Belle
12th	ACM 1981	Los Angeles	16	Belle
13th	ACM 1982	Dallas	14	Belle
14th	ACM 1983 (4th WCCC)	New York	22	Cray Blitz
15th	ACM 1984	San Francisco	14	Cray Blitz
16th	ACM 1985	Denver	10	HiTech
17th	ACM 1986	Dallas	16	Belle
18th	ACM 1987	Dallas	13	ChipTest
19th	ACM 1988	Orlando	12	Deep Thought
20th	ACM 1989	Reno	10	Deep Thought, HiTech
21st	ACM 1990	New York	9	Deep Thought
22nd	ACM 1991	Albuquerque	12	Deep Thought II
23rd	ACM 1993	Indianapolis	12	Socrates II
24th	ACM 1994	Cape May	10	Deep Thought II

See also

• Computer Chess - A Movie
• World Computer Chess Championship

Forum Posts

• Some history by Bert Seifriz, CCC, March, 07, 1999

External Links

• North American Computer Chess Championship from Wikipedia

• 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

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