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 member ...

and by Monty Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

.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 World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is organized by the International Computer Games Association. It is often held in conjunction with ...

. The event was canceled in 1995 as Deep Blue was preparing for the first match against world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and never resumed.

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ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall
{{Chess, state=collapsed Computer chess competitions Recurring events established in 1970