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=Computer Chess Organizations= 
==International== 
* [[ACCA]] - Americas' Computer Chess Association
* [[ICCA]] - International Computer Chess Association, in 2002 renamed to
> [[ICGA]] - International Computer Games Association <ref>[[http://ticc.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content25-3.htm#ICCA%20BECOMES%20ICGA|ICCA BECOMES ICGA]] by [[David Levy]], President of the ICGA, [[ICGA Journal]] Vol. 25, No. 3 - September 2002</ref>
==National== 
* [[CSVN]] - Computerschaak Vereniging Nederland
* [[G 6]] - Gruppo Scacchi e Informatica (gsei)
* [[SSDF]] - Svenska schackdatorföreningen

=Computer Games Organizations= 
* [[ICGA]] - International Computer Games Association
* [[TCGA]] - Taiwan Computer Game Association

=Organizations related to Computer Chess and Games= 
* [[AAAI]] - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
> until 2007 the American Association for Artificial Intelligence <ref>[[http://www.aaai.org/Organization/name-change.php|AAAI Name Change]]</ref>
* [[ACM]] - Association for Computing Machinery
* [[IEEE]] - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
* [[IFIP]] - International Federation for Information Processing
* [[IJCAI]] - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
* [[TAAI]] - Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence

=Chess Organizations= 
* [[FIDE]] - Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation
[[#Universities]]
=Universities and Institutes= 
A lot of universities are associated with [[people]] and [[Engines|chess programs]]:
||~ University or Institute ||~ City ||~ State, Country ||
|| [[Atlas Computer Laboratory]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton,_Oxfordshire|Chilton site, Oxfordshire]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom|United Kingdom]] ||
|| [[Australian National University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra|Canberra]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia|Australia]] ||
|| [[Bar-Ilan University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat_Gan|Ramat-Gan]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel|Israel]] ||
|| [[Bell Laboratories]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Hill%2C_New_Jersey|Murray Hill]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey|New Jersey]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[Carnegie Mellon University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%2C_Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[Chemnitz University of Technology]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemnitz|Chemnitz]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]] ||
|| [[Columbia University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City|New York City]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York|New York]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[Darmstadt University of Technology]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt|Darmstadt]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]] ||
|| [[Dartmouth College]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover,_New_Hampshire|Hanover]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire|New Hampshire]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[Delft University of Technology]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft|Delft]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands|The Netherlands]] ||
|| [[Duke University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham,_North_Carolina|Durham]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina|North Carolina]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[ETH Zurich]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich|Zürich]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland|Switzerland]] ||
|| [[Free University of Berlin]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin|Berlin]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]] ||
|| [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta|Atlanta]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29|Georgia]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[Harvard University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts|Cambridge]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts|Massachusetts]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[Institute of Control Sciences]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow|Moscow]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia|Russia]] ||
|| [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics|Institute of Theoretical and ]]
[[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics|Experimental Physics]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow|Moscow]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia|Russia]] ||
|| [[JAIST|Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanazawa,_Ishikawa|Kanazawa, Ishikawa]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan|Japan]] ||
|| [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore,_California|Livermore]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California|California]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[Leiden University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden|Leiden]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands|The Netherlands]] ||
|| [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos,_New_Mexico|Los Alamos]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico|New Mexico]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[Maastricht University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht|Maastricht]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands|The Netherlands]] ||
|| [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts|Cambridge]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts|Massachusetts]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[McGill University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal|Montreal]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec|Quebec]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada|Canada]] ||
|| [[Michigan State University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lansing,_Michigan|East Lansing]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan|Michigan]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[Moscow State University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow|Moscow]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia|Russia]] ||
|| [[National Chiao Tung University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsinchu|Hsinchu]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan|Taiwan]] ||
|| [[National Taiwan University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_City|Taipei]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan|Taiwan]] ||
|| [[Northwestern University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois|Evanston]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago|Chicago]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois|Illinois]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]]. ||
|| [[Queen Mary, University of London]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London|London]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom|United Kingdom]] ||
|| [[Stanford University]] || Stanford || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California|California]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[Technical University of Łódź]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA|Łódź]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland|Poland]] ||
|| [[Technical University of Madrid]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid|Madrid]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain|Spain]] ||
|| [[Technical University of Munich]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich|Munich]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]] ||
|| [[Tilburg University]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilburg|Tilburg]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands|The Netherlands]] ||
|| [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%2C_Alabama|Birmingham]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama|Alabama]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[University of Alberta]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton|Edmonton]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta|Alberta]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada|Canada]] ||
|| [[University of California, Berkeley]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California|Berkeley]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California|California]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California|Santa Cruz]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California|California]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[University of Dortmund]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund|Dortmund]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]] ||
|| [[University of Edinburgh]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland|Scotland]] ||
|| [[University of Hamburg]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg|Hamburg]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]] ||
|| [[University of Helsinki]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki|Helsinki]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland|Finland]] ||
|| [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbana,_Illinois|Urbana]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champaign,_Illinois|Champaign]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois|Illinois]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[University of Ljubljana]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana|Ljubljana]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia|Slovenia]] ||
|| [[University of Manchester]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester|Manchester]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom|United Kingdom]] ||
|| [[University of Maribor]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maribor|Maribor]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia|Slovenia]] ||
|| [[University of Michigan]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan|Ann Arbor]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan|Michigan]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[University of Paderborn]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn|Paderborn]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany|Germany]] ||
|| [[University of Paris]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris|Paris]]
 || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France|France]] ||
|| [[University of Toronto]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto|Toronto]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario|Ontario]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada|Canada]] ||
|| [[University of Southern California]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California|Los Angeles]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California|California]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America|United States]] ||
|| [[University of Southern Mississippi]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattiesburg,_Mississippi|Hattiesburg]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi|Mississippi]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States|United States]] ||
|| [[University of Warsaw]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw|Warsaw]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland|Poland]] ||
|| [[University of Waterloo]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo,_Ontario|Waterloo]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario|Ontario]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada|Canada]] ||
|| [[University of West Hungary]]  ||  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopron|Sopron]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary|Hungary]]  ||
|| [[Vienna University of Technology]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna|Vienna]] || [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Austria|Austria]] ||

=Museums= 
related to Computer Chess:
* [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [[Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum]]
* [[Russian Virtual Computer Museum]]

=Companies= 
==Hardware== 
===Processors=== 
* [[AMD]]
* [[IBM]]
* [[Intel]]
* [[Motorola]]

===Chess Computers=== 
* [[Applied Concepts]] » [[Chafitz]]
* [[Excalibur Electronics]]
* [[Fidelity Electronics]]
* [[Hegener & Glaser]]
* [[Millennium 2000 GmbH]]
* [[Milton Bradley]]
* [[Newcrest Technology]]
* [[Novag]]
* [[Saitek]]
* [[TASC]]
* [[VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt]]

==Software== 
===Operating Sytems=== 
* [[Apple]]
* [[Google]]
* [[Microsoft]]
* [[Sun Microsystems]]
* [[Free Software Foundation]], [[Free Software Foundation#GNU|GNU]]

===Development=== 
* [[Intel]]
* [[Microsoft]]
* [[Free Software Foundation]], [[Free Software Foundation#GCC|GCC]]

===Chess & AI-Games=== 
* [[AI Factory]]
* [[Chafitz|Chafitz Inc.]]
* [[ChessBase]]
* [[http://www.chessgenius.com/|ChessGenius]] World class chess software by [[Richard Lang]]
* [[http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ct_chess/|Chess Tiger]] - World Class Chess in your Palm by [[Christophe Théron]]
* [[ChessOK]] (Convekta)
* [[ChessUSA]] ([[ICD Corporation]])
* [[ChessOK|Convekta]] (ChessOK)
* [[http://www.computerschach.de/shop/|CSS-Shop!]] [[Dieter Steinwender|Steinwender]] EDV-Beratung GbR
* [[DeepMind]]
* [[http://www.vlasak.biz/|EVCOMP - Chess software]] by [[Emil Vlasák]]
* [[Heuristic Software]]
* [[http://www.hiarcs.com/index.htm|HIARCS Chess Software for PC, Mac, Pocket PC, iPhone, iPod and Palm Chess]] by [[Mark Uniacke]]
* [[ICD Corporation]] ([[ChessUSA]])
* [[Intelligent Software]]
* [[Lokasoft]] by [[Lex Loep]]
* [[Microtrend]]
* [[Oxford Softworks]]
* [[Philidor Software]]
* [[http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com/english/index.html|PocketGrandmaster]] by [[Frank Schneider]] & [[Kai Skibbe]] Softwaredevelopment
* [[http://www.rybkachess.com/index.php?auswahl=Home|Rybka Chess]] by [[Vasik Rajlich]]
* [[Schachversand Niggemann]]
* [[Shanghai Xianqu Info-Tech Co., Ltd.]]
* [[http://www.shredderchess.com/|Shredder Computer Chess]] by [[Stefan Meyer-Kahlen]]
* [[Szabo Software]]

===Games===
* [[Artic Computing]]
* [[Electronic Arts]]
* [[Interplay]]
* [[Mindscape]]
* [[Sierra]]
* [[Titus]]
* [[Ubisoft]]

=References= 
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