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[ Grigori Rasputin [1] Rasputin,

a mainframe chess program written by Jeff Rollason in Assembly at Westfield College. Rasputin, beside Merlin Rollason’s second chess program, was apparently a Swapping Off Material Analyzer (SOMA) approach with a static lookahead that allowed the program to play with tiny search trees [2]. Rasputin entered international competition in 1979 in participating the Second European Computer Chess Championship in London.

See also#

• Merlin
• Treebeard

External Links#

• Rasputin (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Grigori Rasputin from Wikipedia

References#

1. ↑ This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation, Wikimedia Commons
2. ↑ Jeff Rollason (2000). SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching. CG 2000
3. ↑ Partie: Rasputin - Parwell (SMS 201), Computerwoche, November 02, 1979 (German)

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