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Intellect-021 [1] Intellect,

a chess program by Y. Kubinov, which played the First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988 in Ulan-Ude. The tournament report mentions Intellect ran on a special processor at 2MHz, written in assembly to perform an alpha-beta search with 20 pos/sec [2]. During the championship, the Soviet Computer-Chess Federation was founded, to support computer chess and to establish a cooperative for producing chess computers.

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References

  1. Intellect -02 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
  2. Mikhail Donskoy, Jonathan Schaeffer (1988). Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3
  3. Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - Intellect 02 - Image Processor board by Sergei Frolov

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