First Soviet Computer Chess Championship 1988
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# Program 1 2 3 4 5 6 P
1 Centaur X ½ 1 1 ½ 1 4
2 Strategist-1 ½ X ½ 1 1 ½ 3½
3 Algir 0 ½ X ½ 1 1 3
4 Strategist-A 0 0 ½ X ½ 1 2
5 Strategist ½ 0 0 ½ X ½ 1½
6 Intellect 0 ½ 0 0 ½ X 1Strategist is "a Soviet dedicated chess computer prototype" according to Chess Programming Wiki.
The program was developed by Surmin and Korbatov and, the computer was built by NICEVENT, a manufacturer located in Moscow (A.S. Morozov). According to Chess Programming Wiki: "the program, written in Assembly, performed alpha-beta and searched about 40-200 positions per second. In 1988, the computer was announced to become commercially available in the Soviet Union at a price of 380 Soviet ruble, roughly 600$ at that time."
Following the Tournament, the Soviet Computer Chess Federation was founded.
From the ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2/3, the Tournament went on 5 rounds:
ROUND 1
ROUND 2
ROUND3
ROUND 4
ROUND 5