Dan and Kathe Spracklen from their oral history on the Sargon 2 vs Awit game, round 4, ACM 1978
"I think the most exciting part for us was the last round of the tournament, when we played Tony Marsland’s program Awit. It was a 6 million dollar Amdahl computer. And we won the game. And we were just amazed. I remember, at the time, we won it. And there was a huge audience there. There was like a hundred people sitting out there, watching it, and they just all started cheering and clapping. And then we woke up the following morning to a big article in the Washington Post that says, Microcomputer Beats 6 Million Dollar Machine, or something like that."
[pgn][Event "ACM 1978"]
[Site "Washington USA"]
[Date "1978.12.05"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sargon 2"]
[Black "Awit"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3 Nf6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Bb5 a6 8.Bxc6 dxc6
9.Bd2 Ng4 10.Qf4 Nf6 11.O-O O-O 12.Rad1 b5 13.Be3 Qa5 14.Bd4 Bxc3 15.Bxc3 Qxa2
16.Bxf6 gxf6 17.Qxf6 Qc4 18.Qg5+ Kh8 19.Qf6+ Kg8 20.Qg5+ Kh8 21.Rd8 Rxd8 22.Qf6+
Kg8 23.Qg5+ Kf8 24.Qxd8+ Kg7 25.Qg5+ Kf8 26.Qd8+ Kg7 27.Qd4+ Qxd4 28.Nxd4 Bb7
29.Re1 Kg6 30.Re3 Rd8 31.Rd3 c5 32.Nxe6 Rxd3 33.Nf4+ Kg5 34.Nxd3 Bxe4 35.Nxc5
Bxc2 36.Nxa6 Bb3 37.Nc5 Bd5 38.g3 Bf3 39.Nb3 b4 40.Nd4 Be4 41.f3 Bb7 42.Kf2 h6
43.Ke3 Bd5 44.Nc2 b3 45.Nd4 Kg6 46.Kd3 Kh7 47.f4 Kg8 48.Kc3 Kg7 49.Nxb3 Bxb3
50.Kxb3 Kf6 51.Kc4 Ke7 52.b4 Kd7 53.Kd5 h5 54.b5 Kc7 55.Kc5 Kb7 56.b6 Kb8 57.Kc6
Kc8 58.b7+ Kb8 59.Kb6 h4 60.gxh4 f6 61.h5 f5 62.Kc6 Ka7 63.Kc7 Ka6 64.b8=Q Ka5
65.Qb3 Ka6 66.Qa4# 1-0[/pgn]
And Sargon also finished in 1st place at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire tournament.
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# Program R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 P Class
1 Sargon 9_1 4_1 5_1 2_1 8_1 5 A - 1
2 Commodore ChessMate 8_½ 3_1 9_½ 1_0 5_1 3 B - 1
3 Boris 5_½ 2_0 bye½ 9_1 4_1 3 B - 1
4 Chess Challenger 6_1 1_0 8_1 7_1 3_0 3 B - 1
5 8080 Chess 3_½ 10_1 1_0 8_1 2_0 2½ A - 2
6 SD Chess 4_0 9_0 11_1 7_1 2 C - 1
7 Tenberg Basic Chess 11_1 10_1 4_0 6_0 2 C - 1
8 Steve Stuart Chess 10_1 2_½ 4_0 5_0 1_0 1½ B - 2
9 CompuChess 1_0 6_1 2_½ 3_0 1½ B - 2
10 Compucolor Chess 8_0 5_0 7_0 11_1 1 A - 3
11 Mark Watson Chess 7_0 6_0 10_0 0 C - 2