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Hyatt Regency Indianapolis [1]
ACM's 23rd North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held February 14-17, 1993, Hyatt Regency Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Throughout the tournament, Robert Levinson demonstrated his learning program Morph [2]. Tony Marsland served as moderator of a panel discussion entitled Computer Chess: What Remains? with Robert Hyatt, Robert Levinson, Monroe Newborn and John Stanback as members [3].
Contents
Final Standing
| # | Name | CC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | P | SOS | SoDOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Socrates II [5] | US | 12b1 | 6w1 | 2b½ | 10w1 | 7b1 | 4½ | 10½ | 8¾ |
| 2 | Cray Blitz | US | 9w1 | 10b1 | 1w½ | 6b½ | 3b½ | 3½ | 14½ | 9½ |
| 3 | *Tech | US | 5w1 | 4w½ | 10b0 | 11b1 | 2w½ | 3 | 12½ | 7¼ |
| 4 | B*HiTech | US | 11w1 | 3b½ | 5w0 | 8b½ | 6w1 | 3 | 12 | 6¼ |
| 5 | Zarkov | US | 3b0 | 11w1 | 4b1 | 7w0 | 10b1 | 3 | 11½ | 6 |
| 6 | ChessMachine Schroder | NL | 7w1 | 1b0 | 8w1 | 2w½ | 4b0 | 2½ | 16 | 6¾ |
| 7 | Kallisto | NL | 6b0 | 12w1 | 9b½ | 5b1 | 1w0 | 2½ | 12½ | 4¼ |
| 8 | BP | US | 10w0 | 9b1 | 6b0 | 4w½ | 12w1 | 2½ | 10 | 4 |
| 9 | Now | US | 2b0 | 8w0 | 7w½ | 12b1 | 11w1 | 2½ | 9½ | 2¼ |
| 10 | M-Chess Pro | US | 8b1 | 2w0 | 3w1 | 1b0 | 5w0 | 2 | 16½ | 5½ |
| 11 | Bebe | US | 4b0 | 5b0 | 12w1 | 3w0 | 9b0 | 1 | 11½ | 0 |
| 12 | Innovation | US | 1w0 | 7b0 | 11b0 | 9w0 | 8b0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
Participants
| Program | CC | Team | Hardware | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bebe | US | Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer | SYS-10 bit slice hardware | Assembly |
| BP | US | Robert Cullum | 486/50 PC | C, Assembly |
| B*HiTech | US | Hans Berliner, Chris McConnell, Carl Ebeling |
Sun-4 special purpose hardware |
Microcode, Assembly |
| ChessMachine Schroder | NL | Ed Schröder, Jan Louwman | Laptop with ARM2 ISA card | Assembly |
| Cray Blitz | US | Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower, Harry Nelson |
Cray Y-MP-8 | Fortran, C, Assembly |
| Innovation | US | Jeff Mallett | Macintosh Quadra 68040 | C |
| Kallisto | NL | Bart Weststrate, Franz van de Eng | 486/50 PC | Assembly |
| M-Chess Pro | US | Marty Hirsch | 486 PC | C, Assembly |
| Now | US | Mark Lefler | 486 PC | Pascal, Assembly |
| Socrates II | US | Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, c/o Julio Kaplan |
486 PC | C |
| *Tech | US | Bradley Kuszmaul, Charles Leiserson, Ryan Rifkin |
Connection Machine CM-5 | C |
| Zarkov | US | John Stanback | HP 9000/835 | C |
Selected Games
Round 2, M-Chess Pro - Cray Blitz [7] [8] [9]
[Event "ACM 1993"] [Site "Indianapolis, IN USA"] [Date "1993.02.14"] [Round "2"] [White "M-Chess Pro"] [Black "Cray Blitz"] [Result "0-1"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Bc4 gxf3 7.O-O d5 8.exd5 Bg4 9.Qd2 Na5 10.Bb5+ c6 11.Qxf4 Nf6 12.Re1+ Kd7 13.dxc6+ bxc6 14.Ne4 Nxe4 15.Qxg4+ Kc7 16.Rxe4 cxb5 17.Qxf3 Qd7 18.Rf4 Be7 19.Rxf7 Raf8 20.Bf4+ Kb6 21.Be5 Rhg8 22.c3 Nc6 23.Re1 Qe8 24.Rxf8 Qxf8 25.Qd5 Rg5 26.a4 bxa4 27.c4 Nxe5 28.Rxe5 Rxe5 29.Qxe5 Qd8 30.c5+ Kb5 31.Qe2+ Kb4 32.Qd3 Bf6 33.Qc3+ Kb5 34.Qd3+ Kc6 35.Qf3+ Kd7 36.Qe4 Qe7 37.Qb7+ Ke8 38.Qa8+ Qd8 39.Qc6+ Kf7 40.Qb7+ Kf8 41.d5 Qe7 42.Qb8+ Kf7 43.Kf1 Bxb2 44.g4 Bc3 45.Kf2 Qxc5+ 46.Kf1 Qc4+ 47.Kf2 Qd4+ 48.Kf3 Qd1+ 49.Ke3 Bd2+ 50.Kf2 Qe1+ 51.Kg2 Qe2+ 0-1
Tournament Director
- Mike Valvo
- Danny Kopec (Assistant)
Publications
- The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
- Danny Kopec, Michael Valvo (1993). The 23rd ACM International Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1
- Bert Gower, Bob Hyatt (1993). Computer Chess: What Remains? ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1
- Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn, Michael Valvo (1994). The 23rd ACM NACCC in Indianapolis, in The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
- Larry Kaufman (1993). ACM International Computer Chess Championship. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 2-4
- Deniz Yuret (1994). The Principle of Pressure in Chess. TAINN 1994
Forum Posts
- 1993 ACM International Computer Chess Championship (with corrections) by Bradley Kuszmaul, rec.games.chess, February 19, 1993
- ACM 1993 Computer Tournament by Steven Edwards, rec.games.chess, February 20, 1993
- ACM 1993 23rd CCC game set by Steven Edwards, rec.games.chess, February 20, 1993
- Computer evolution, a little game collection by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, April 21, 2014 [10]
External Links
- ACM 1993 CSVN site
- North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
- ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
References
- ↑ Hyatt Regency Indianapolis from Wikipedia
- ↑ Robert Levinson, John Amenta (1993). MORPH, An Experience-Based Adaptive Chess System. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, reprinted in The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
- ↑ Bert Gower, Bob Hyatt (1993). Computer Chess: What Remains? ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1
- ↑ ACM 1993 CSVN site
- ↑ Larry Kaufman (1993). PC Software. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9
- ↑ The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
- ↑ ACM 1993 23rd CCC game set by Steven Edwards, rec.games.chess, February 20, 1993
- ↑ Computer evolution, a little game collection by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, April 21, 2014
- ↑ The M-Chess Pro vs. Cray Blitz game was used by Robert Hyatt for 24 test positions to determine the speedup of Dynamic Tree Splitting, see The DTS high-performance parallel tree search algorithm by Robert Hyatt
- ↑ Computer evolution from chessgames.com