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The First European Computer Chess Championship took place August 9-11, 1976 at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Eight (nine?) programs participated, first four to qualify for the WCCC 1977 in Toronto ^[1]. The three round Swiss tournament was won by Master with Orwell and Tell tying for second place ^{[2] [3]}.

Final Standing

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#	Program	CC
1	Master [5]	GB
2	Orwell	DE
2	Tell	CH
4	Bs6676 [6]	NL
...

Participants

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Program	CC	Author(s)
Beal	GB	Don Beal
Bs6676	NL	Barend Swets
Charlie	DE	Andreas Keil
Daja	DE	Siegfried Jahn, Ludwig Zagler
Master	GB	Peter Kent, John Birmingham
Orwell	DE	Thomas Nitsche
Papa	HU	George Rajna, B. Almasi
Schach	DE	Matthias Engelbach
Tell	CH	Johann Joss

Booklet

• Ineke Bakker (1976). European Computer Chess Championship Booklet. Tournament Committee, Royal Dutch Chess Federation Office, Amsterdam

External Links

• 1st European Computer Chess Championship from the ICGA Tournament page

References

1. ^ DP Chess Play-Offs Set for Amsterdam, Computerworld, July 19, 1976, pp. 9
2. ^ David Levy (ed.) (1988). Computer Games I. Springer, pp.167
3. ^ The Information of the ECCC 1976 so far is incomplete, except first to fourth place. If you have access to the booklet by I. Bakker (Ineke Bakker) mentioned in Computer Games I by David Levy , please provide the information here.
4. ^ The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship (labeled 22nd ACM), pdf from The Computer History Museum, pdf, European Championships, page 8
5. ^ II. Europäische Schachcomputermeisterschaft: "Parwell" und "Elsa" als elektronische Vertreter Deutschlands, September 14, 1979, Computerwoche 37/1979 (German), mentions ECCC 1976 and the Master vs. Orwell game
6. ^ Prehistorie van het Nederlandse Computerschaak (Dutch)
7. ^ Eight programs mentioned in DP Chess Play-Offs Set for Amsterdam, Computerworld, July 19, 1976, pp. 9, excluding Bs6676

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