World Championships

• World Computer Chess Championship
• World Chess Software Championship
• World Microcomputer Chess Championship
• Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship
• ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship

Major Computer Chess Tournaments

• ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championship
• ACM North American Computer Chess Championship
• Australasian National Computer Chess Championship
• Computer Chess Championship of CIS Countries
• CSVN Programmers Tournament
• Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship
• European Computer Chess Championship
• French Computer Chess Championship
• French Programmers Tournament
• Hungarian Chessprogram Open
• International CSVN Tournament
• International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship
• Italian Computer Chess Championship
• Polish Computer Chess Championship
• Spanish Computer Chess Championship
• The Chess Programmers Tournament
• Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship
• United States Open Computer Chess Championship

Online Computer Chess Tournaments

• ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championship
• ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship
• CCT Tournaments
• CSVN Open Internet Tournament
• International Gsei Web Tournaments
• Online Engine Blitz Tourneys

Microcomputer Chess Tournaments

• American Microcomputer Chess Tournaments
• European Microcomputer Chess Championship
• PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship
• Various Microcomputer Chess Tournaments
• World Microcomputer Chess Championship

Various Tournaments

• First GI Computer Chess Tournament Dortmund 1975
• Jerusalem CC Tournament 1978
• International Computer Chess Tournament 1984 in Baarn, The Netherlands
• Canadian Computer Chess Invitational Championship 1984
• First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988
• First Berliner Emanuel-Lasker Computerchess-Tournament 2001

Private Tournaments

• Keck's Tournaments
• TCEC

Computer-Computer Matches

• Stanford-ITEP Match
• Fritz-Junior 2000 match in Cadaques, qualif. to play Kramnik
• Shredder versus Hydra 2004
• Deep Fritz versus Deep Junior 2007
• Zappa versus Rybka 2007

Man Computer Tournaments

• Aegon Tournaments
• ANU Carbon-Silicon Tournaments 1994
• Harvard Cup
• Aubervilliers Open 1981 to 1999, rapid 30'
• Netherlands vs Computers 8.5 - 3.5 April 1989
• Deep Thought 2 scored 2.5 against 7 strong players (average : 2514) , Hannover 1991
• Intel World Chess Express Challenge, Munich 1994 - 5 min blitz, Fritz won
• Intel Rapid Chess Grand Prix 1994, London - Genius eliminated Kasparov to reach the semifinal
• Israeli league allows 1 computer in team in 2000
• Closed titled tournaments in Argentina with 1 engine 2001-2009
• Indochess Match - Titled players vs Machines : 1.5-14.5 in 2005
• Man vs Machine Team Championship (2004 and 2005)

Man Computer Matches

• Levy versus Chess 4.7 1978 (3½ - 1½)
• Levy versus Cray Blitz 1984 (4 - 0)
• Kasparov simul vs 32 micro Hamburg 1985
• Kasparov versus Deep Thought 1989 (2 - 0)
• Levy versus Deep Thought 1989 (0 - 4)
• Bent Larsen vs Deep Blue, Copenhagen 1993 (2½ - 2½)
• Judit Polgar vs Deep Blue 1993 (½ - 1½)
• Kasparov versus Chess Genius, 25 min, 1994 (½ - 1½)
• Kasparov versus Deep Blue, Philadelphia 1996 (4 - 2)
• David Bronstein vs MChess Pro, 1996 (1½ - ½)
• Kasparov versus Deep Blue, New York 1997 (2½ - 3½)
• HIARCS 6.0 defeated I.M. Deen Hergott 4-2 in 1997
• Rebel vs Yusupov, Ischia 1997 (10½ - 6½)
• Rebel vs Anand, Italy 1998 (5-3)
• Rebel Monthly GM challenge (Various opponents) 1999-2000
• GM John van der Wiel vs REBEL 2001 (2½ - 3½)
• GM Loek van Wely vs REBEL, Maastricht February 2002 (2 - 2)
• Christiansen vs Chessmaster 9000 September 2002 (1½ - 2½)
• Kramnik vs Deep Fritz, Bahrain, October 2002 (4 - 4)
• Bareev versus HIARCS 2003 (2 - 2)
• Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003 (3 - 3)
• Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003 (2-2)
• Peter Heine Nielsen - ChessBrain, January 2004 (½ - ½)
• Adams vs Hydra, London June 2005 (½ - 5½)
• Kramnik versus Deep Fritz, Bonn December 2006 (2 - 4)
• Rybka odds matches vs grandmasters 2007-2008
• GM+Rybka vs. Stockfish 2014
• Komodo handicap matches 2015-2016, various opponents, adjusted handicaps
• Komodo vs Nakamura, four-game odds match 2016 (2½ - 1½)
  4 live analyses on Youtube

Computer Games Tournaments

• Computer Olympiad
• TAAI
• TCGA

User Tournaments

• 19. Computerschachturnier Thüringen 2010 May 11-15, 2010
• 20. Computerschachturnier Thüringen 2011 May 09-15, 2011

See also

• Engine Rating Lists
• Match Statistics
  Tournament Manager

Publications

• Ben Mittman (1977). A Brief History of Computer Chess Tournaments: 1970-1975. Chess Skill in Man and Machine
• Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404, amazon
  

Forum Posts

• XBoard and epd tournament by Vlad Stamate, CCC, January 31, 2010 » Chess Engine Communication Protocol, Engine Testing
• To MODERATORS: Please STOP moving genuine tournaments! by Dr. Torsten Schoop, CCC, May 23, 2016
• sprt tourney manager by Richard Delorme, CCC, January 24, 2017 » Amoeba Tournament Manager, SPRT
• What is a Match? by Henk van den Belt, CCC, September 01, 2017

External Links

Tournaments

• ICGA Tournaments
• Important games hosted by Ed Schröder
• Chess tournament from Wikipedia
• Human-computer chess matches from Wikipedia
• Computer Chess History Pages © 2008 Computerschaak, CSVN
  Downloads, Games
• SPCC by Stefan Pohl

Swiss System

• Swiss-system tournament from Wikipedia
• Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments from Wikipedia
• Buchholz system from Wikipedia (SOS)
• Neustadtl score from Wikipedia (SODos)
• Sonneborn-Berger score (non-Neustadtl) from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ Man vs. Machine – The Endless Fascination by Ram Prasad, ChessBase News, November 09, 2003