First world computer chess championship

Despite entering ranked almost a class above the field, a last-round loss forced DEEP THOUGHT to settle for a first-place tie with HITECH at the 20th Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. The five-round Swiss-style tournament was held ...

Chess tournaments exclusively for computers have been held since 1970 (see Table 1). Until 1978, these tournaments were dominated by David Slate and Larry Atkin's program, first called Chess 3.0 and finally, after many revisions, Chess 4.9. It earned a ...

At the invitation of the organizers of the Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology and the Israel Chess Association, six chess programs and their programmers gathered in Jerusalem on August 6-8 for a special three round computer chess tournament. ...