Nicevent Strategist Стратег Blond Wood USSR (1988) X-RARE

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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Nicevent Strategist Стратег Blond Wood USSR (1988) X-RARE

Unread post by CHVL » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:01 pm

A beautiful wood chess computer.
Two were to sell on eBay from September to November 2021. Probably, more will appear. One had blond wood and the second dark walnut wood. For the moment, I put this computer is the X-RARE category (eXtremely-RARE), but I will lower the category if more exemplars appear.
This one was built in 1990, and its id number is 1432.
The computer was opened and I took some photos: the microprocessor and all the components of the motherboard are easily identifiable. The KR580VM80A (Russian: КР580ВМ80А) is a Soviet microprocessor. It is a clone of the Intel 8080 CPU. Its clock speed is between 2 and 2.5 MHz.
On the software side, the program was developed by E. Surmin and S. Korbatov and apparently is not a clone of a western program.

An interesting game between the Strategist and the Intellect-01 (both of the computers are part of the ChessEval Collection and both have identified soviet programmers):




The Strategist Стратег participated to the First Soviet Computer Championship in 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	1
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