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The Second United States Open Computer Chess Championship was held in Mobile, Alabama, June 17-21, 1986. Six round Swiss system.

Final Standing

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#	Program	CC	Authors	P	SOS
1	Fidelity Chess Challenger N	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	5	19
2	Fidelity Private Line Expert Mach II	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	5	17
3	Mephisto Janus	GB	Richard Lang	4½	14½
4	Chessmaster 2000 Apple	US	David Kittinger	3½	14½
5	Fidelity PC	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	3½	14½
6	Novag Blitz Monster 6	US	David Kittinger	3½	13½
7	Mephisto Exclusive Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder	3½	11½
8	Mephisto Mobile Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder	3	11½
9	Fidelity Elite 86M [2]	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	3	11
10	Fidelity Excellence 86M	US	Dan and Kathe Spracklen	3	9½
11	Novag Expert M	US	David Kittinger	3	7½
12	Mephisto Experimental	GB	Richard Lang	2½	11
13	Novag Forte X	US	David Kittinger	2½	9
14	Chessmaster 2000 IBM	US	David Kittinger	2½	5
15	Mephisto Rebel	NL	Ed Schröder	2	8½
16	Chessmaster 2000 MS DOS	US	David Kittinger	2	4½
17	Zsu Zsa	US/HU	Opening Book by Zsuzsa Polgár	1	4
18	EGA Chess	US	Lloyd L. Lank	1	3

• CC Country Codes
• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores

Photos

Larry Kaufman talking with Sidney Samole (left) and Terry Everett [3] [4]

Quotes

from the ICCA Journal tournament report ^[5]

Surprise

The performance of the Fidelity machines may surprise those who know that, a year ago, Fidelity decided to withdraw temporarily from computer chess tournaments. No Fidelity machines were entered in the WMCCC 1985 in Amsterdam, nor in the WCCC 1986 in Cologne. When analyzing the final score, one encounters another unexpected result; what in Cologne seemed to be a new star in the sky of chess computers is in this tournament biting the dust, placed 7th, 8th and 15th. We refer to Ed Schröder's Rebel program. Admittedly, the road to the top is long and winding, but we expect Rebel to find yet another short cut.

Preordained

We have been told that some machines did not play under the same conditions against stablemates as against other opponents. This preset behavior implies that in certain companies the in-house winner was pre-ordained...

Reports

• The Editor (1986). The Second U.S. Open Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3
• Larry Kaufman (1986). 2nd U.S. Open Computer Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports 1986, Fall/Winter Edition

References

1. ^ The Editor (1986). The Second U.S. Open Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3
2. ^ According to Larry Kaufman, Fidelity Elite 86M and Fidelity Excellence 86M had Par Excellence programs in Elite Avant Garde and Excellence housing, Larry Kaufman (1986). 2nd U.S. Open Computer Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports 1986, Fall/Winter Edition, pp. 27
3. ^ Fidelity Electronics from chesscomputers.org, pictures from USOCCC 1986
4. ^ Larry Kaufman (1986). 2nd U.S. Open Computer Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports 1986, Fall/Winter Edition
5. ^ The Editor (1986) The Second U.S. Open Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3

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