Aduke.1371 net.games utzoo!decvax!duke!trt Fri Nov 13 02:34:22 1981 computer chess tournament Belle, a chess machine co-authored by Ken Thompson and Joe Condon has won the 12th North American Computer Chess Championship held in Los Angeles Nov 8-11 as part of the ACM national conference. # ENTRANT AFFILIATION MACHINE 1 Belle Bell Labs chess machine 2 Nuchess Northwestern U. CYBER 176 3 Cray Blitz U. So. Miss. CRAY-I 4 Bebe SysTech chess machine 5 Duchess Duke U. Amdahl 470V/8 6 Philidor (?) Z-80a 7 Ostrich McGill U. 5-Nova multiprocessor 8 L'Excentrique McGill U. Amdahl 470V/7 9 Chess Challenger X Fidelity 6502 (5Mhz) 10 Mychess Savant Z-80 11 Chaos U. Mich. Amdahl 470V/8 12 Cube 2.1 United Comp. CRAY-I 13 Schach 2.5 (?) B7800 14 Chaturanga Apollo Apollo 15 Awit U. Edmonton Amdahl 470V/7 16 Prodogy Waterloo Honeywell 6 600 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.