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 and by Monty Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University.[1] 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, and never resumed.
| Event # | Year | Location | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1970 | New York City | Chess 3.0 | |
| 2 | 1971 | Chicago | Chess 3.0 | |
| 3 | 1972 | Boston | Chess 3.0 | |
| 4 | 1973 | Atlanta | Chess 3.5 | |
| 5 | 1974 | San Diego | Ribbit | |
| 6 | 1975 | Minneapolis | Chess 4.4 | |
| 7 | 1976 | Houston | Chess 4.5 | |
| 8 | 1977 | Seattle | Chess 4.6 | |
| 9 | 1978 | Washington, D.C. | Belle | |
| 10 | 1979 | Detroit | Chess 4.9 | |
| 11 | 1980 | Nashville | Belle | |
| 12 | 1981 | Los Angeles | Belle | |
| 13 | 1982 | Dallas | Belle[2] | |
| 14 | 1983 | New York City | Cray Blitz | |
| 15 | 1984 | San Francisco | Cray Blitz | |
| 16 | 1985 | Denver | HiTech | |
| 17 | 1986 | Dallas | Belle | |
| 18 | 1987 | Dallas | ChipTest-M | |
| 19 | 1988 | Orlando, Florida | Deep Thought | |
| 20 | 1989 | Reno, Nevada | HiTech and Deep Thought | |
| 21 | 1990 | New York City | Deep Thought | |
| 22 | 1991 | Albuquerque | Deep Thought II | |
| 23 | 1993 | Indianapolis | Socrates II | |
| 24 | 1994 | Cape May, New Jersey | Deep Thought II |