ACM North American Computer Chess Championship

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The [[ACM|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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City|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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov|Garry Kasparov]].

||~ Edition ||~ Event ||~ Origin ||~ Participants ||~ Champion ||
|| 1st || [[ACM 1970]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City|New York]] ||= 6 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 3.0]] ||
|| 2nd || [[ACM 1971]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago|Chicago]] ||= 8 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 3.5]] ||
|| 3rd || [[ACM 1972]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%2C_Massachusetts|Boston]] ||= 8 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 3.6]] ||
|| 4th || [[ACM 1973]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta%2C_Georgia|Atlanta]] ||= 12 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.0]] ||
|| 5th || [[ACM 1974]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego%2C_California|San Diego]] ||= 12 || [[Ribbit]] ||
|| 6th || [[ACM 1975]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota|Minneapolis]] ||= 12 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.4]] ||
|| 7th || [[ACM 1976]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%2C_Texas|Houston]] ||= 11 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]] ||
|| 8th || [[ACM 1977]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%2C_Washington|Seattle]] ||= 12 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.6]] ||
|| 9th || [[ACM 1978]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C|Washington, D.C]] ||= 12 || [[Belle]] ||
|| 10th || [[ACM 1979]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%2C_Michigan|Detroit]] ||= 12 || [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.9]] ||
|| 11th || [[ACM 1980]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville%2C_Tennessee|Nashville]] ||= 10 || [[Belle]] ||
|| 12th || [[ACM 1981]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles%2C_California|Los Angeles]] ||= 16 || [[Belle]] ||
|| 13th || [[ACM 1982]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%2C_Texas|Dallas]] ||= 14 || [[Belle]] ||
|| 14th || [[ACM 1983]]
([[WCCC 1983|4th WCCC]]) || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City|New York]] ||= 22 || [[Cray Blitz]] ||
|| 15th || [[ACM 1984]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%2C_California|San Francisco]] ||= 14 || [[Cray Blitz]] ||
|| 16th || [[ACM 1985]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver%2C_Colorado|Denver]] ||= 10 || [[HiTech]] ||
|| 17th || [[ACM 1986]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%2C_Texas|Dallas]] ||= 16 || [[Belle]] ||
|| 18th || [[ACM 1987]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%2C_Texas|Dallas]] ||= 13 || [[ChipTest]] ||
|| 19th || [[ACM 1988]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%2C_Florida|Orlando]] ||= 12 || [[Deep Thought]] ||
|| 20th || [[ACM 1989]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno%2C_Nevada|Reno]] ||= 10 || [[Deep Thought]], [[HiTech]] ||
|| 21st || [[ACM 1990]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City|New York]] ||= 9 || [[Deep Thought]] ||
|| 22nd || [[ACM 1991]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuquerque%2C_New_Mexico|Albuquerque]] ||= 12 || [[Deep Thought|Deep Thought II]] ||
|| 23rd || [[ACM 1993]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis%2C_Indiana|Indianapolis]] ||= 12 || [[Titan|Socrates II]]  ||
|| 24th || [[ACM 1994]] || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_May%2C_New_Jersey|Cape May]] ||= 10 || [[Deep Thought|Deep Thought II]] ||

=See also=
* [[History#ComputerChess|Computer Chess - A Movie]]
* [[World Computer Chess Championship]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=45308|Some history]] by [[Berthold Seifriz|Bert Seifriz]], [[CCC]], March, 07, 1999

=External Links= 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Computer_Chess_Championship|North American Computer Chess Championship from Wikipedia]]
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