
The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994. It was organised by the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...
and by Monty Newborn, professor of computer science at
McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...
.
Monty Newborn's homepage at McGill University
/ref> It was one of the first computer chess tournaments. The 14th NACCC was also the World Computer Chess Championship.
The event was canceled in 1995 as Deep Blue was preparing for the first match against world chess champion Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess Elo rating system, ra ...
, and never resumed.
References
External links
ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
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Computer chess competitions
Recurring events established in 1970