PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship

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The **PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship** was held six times from 1978 to 1983 as part of the [[Personal Computer World]] exhibition in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London|London]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom|United Kingdom]]. The third event was declared the [[WMCCC 1980|First World Microcomputer Chess Championship]], as well as the First European Microcomputer Chess Championship (inofficial ). The remaining three PCW events were further subsequently declared [[European Microcomputer Chess Championship]]. [[David Levy]] remarks in his 1978 report that he is beginning to prefer computer chess to competing in international tournaments <ref>[[David Levy]] (**1978**). //The PCW Microcomputer Chess Championships//, [[Personal Computer World]] 11/78, [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW-MCC_1978.pdf|pdf]] from [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.

=Editions= 
||~ Edition ||~ Event ||~   ||~ Participants ||~ Champion ||
||~ 1st || [[PCW-MCC 1978]] ||~   ||= 6 ||= [[Mike]] ||
||~ 2nd || [[PCW-MCC 1979]] ||~   ||= 9 ||= [[Sargon]] ||
||~ 3rd || [[WMCCC 1980|PCW-MCC 1980]] ||~   ||= 14 ||= [[Chess Challenger]] ||
||~ 4th || [[European MCC 1981|PCW-MCC 1981]] ||~   ||= 12 ||= [[Cyrus]] ||
||~ 5th || [[European MCC 1982|PCW-MCC 1982]] ||~   ||= 12 ||= [[Advance|Advance 2.4]] ||
||~ 6th || [[European MCC 1983|PCW-MCC 1983]] ||~   ||= 14 ||= [[Advance|Advance 3.0]] ||

=Recruiting Ground= 
[[Mike Watters]] in //Chess Computer UK// <ref>[[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref> :

{{PCW tournaments were to provide [[David Levy|Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell|O’Connell]] with a fertile recruiting ground for proven chess programmers. For the time being though other avenues were explored. At the bottom of his article entitled ‘Chess Programming: Before You Begin’ published in the May 1979 edition of Personal Computer World, David Levy added an advertisement for programmers. At this point the [[Philidor Software]] company was born.}}

> [[image:Philidor_Software_1979_Advert_1_70_x_70.JPG link="http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html"]]

=See also= 
* [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship]]
* [[European Microcomputer Chess Championship]]

=External Links= 
* [[http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/event_info.php?id=3|Third PCW Exhibition (ICGA Tournaments)]]
* [[http://old.csvn.nl/pcw_hist.html|PCW Micro-Computer Chess Championships]], old [[CSVN]] site
* [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html|Chess Computers - The UK Story]] by [[Mike Watters]]

=References= 
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