The 2006 First Annual ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Chamionships

Home Tournament Home Registration Participants Rounds Results

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The tournament room. Brian and James to the right.

The Tournament Console. We kept the top matches there.
Between it and the other machines, we had all matches displayed.

The Intel Core 2 Duo laptop running both Amyan and Naum.
Surprisingly, they finished in 1st and 2nd.
This was not the best hardware in the tournament and each program had half the machines resources. James kept claiming the laptop was lucky. Yes, Amyan was kibitzing.

Charles' AMD 4400+ Athlon 64 X2.
I ported Telepath to 64 bit linux overnight and ran insufficient tests.
Hence, Telepath's poor performance in the tournament, but it was fun.

James' Core Duo running Prophet.

Brian's laptop accessing his home machine which ran Tinker.
Brian said this was Tinker's best performance. He thought it was due to him not being able to tinker with Tinker.

James (left) and Brian rooting on their engines or were they thinking "what was it thinking; where did that move come from"?

James, Brian and David Moose. David is the High Point chess club president. David provided analysis as to what should happen in these positions.