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