NICEVENT was located in Moscow and manufactured the Strategist Chess Computer which participated to the First USSR Chess Computer Championship. INTELLECT was the first chess computer Brand Name. Appearing at the First Soviet Computer Championship in 1988, the Intellect-01, programmed by Y. Kubinov, took the sixth and last place of the Tournament. After the competition, the Soviet Computer Chess Federation was founded. Under the brand name ELECTRONIKA, many different Soviet manufactures produced a variety of electronic products as computer systems, calculators, watches, tape recorders, video recorders, portable games, and radios. These products were exported and distributed under various names. Some of them were full copies of foreign technology. KIEV RADIO FACTORY or MAYAK made products including a clone of the Mephisto SchachSchule in 1992.
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by CHVL » Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:06 am
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Final Standing
# 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 1
Electronika was not represented at this Tournament. Strategist (Стратег) was present on 3 machines.
Strategist 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
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