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Sheraton Boston Hotel ¹

The ACM's Third North American Computer Chess Championship (NACCC) was held from August 13 to 15, 1972 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel ¹ , Boston, Massachusetts ² .

Final Standing

³

• SOS: Sum of Opponent Scores
• SoDOS: Sum of Defeated Opponent Scores

Participants

⁴

Tournament Director

• David Levy

Panel Discussion

On the morning of the last day of the tournament the authors of the programs met for a panel discussion ⁵. Professor Mittman served as moderator. Other members of the panel were David Levy, Jim Gillogly, Al Zobrist, George Arnold, Franklin Ceruti, David Slate, Ed Kozdrowicki, and Monty Newborn. The panel arrived a few conclusions:

1. a need for including algorithms controlling long-range strategy was emphasized
2. there was interest in the USC approach
3. self-learning was confirmed as being a long way off. Arthur Samuel was in the audience and participated actively in the discussion.

Publications

• Computers Compete in Sheraton Chess Match by Peter Koretsky, The Harvard Crimson, August 22, 1972
• Woodrow W. Bledsoe (1972). Computer Chess Championship in Boston. ACM SIGART Bulletin, No. 34
• Schach-Computer: Bitteres Ende, Der Spiegel 36/1972, September 1972, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German)
• Monroe Newborn (1975). Computer Chess. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.

Chapter VII. The Third United States Computer Chess Championship

• Editor, Ben Mittman (1978). Echoes from the past. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 84

External Links

• ACM 1972 CSVN site
• North American Computer-Chess Championships, complete History of Tournament Results by Theo van der Storm
• ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall

References