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Intellect,
a chess program by Y. Kubinov, which played the First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988 in Ulan-Ude. The tournament report mentions Intellect ran on a special processor at 2MHz, written in assembly to perform an alpha-beta search with 20 pos/sec 1. During the championship, the Soviet Computer-Chess Federation was founded, to support computer chess and to establish a cooperative for producing chess computers.
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Intellect-02
The dedicated chess computer Intellect-02 with KR580VM80A processor 2, a Soviet Intel 8080 clone, was released the same year, 1988. It was a cartridge system with Kalah and chess programs. According to Mike Watters, the 1988 Intellect-02 chess cartridge (serial number 4315) plays exactly like the Fidelity Chess Challenger 3 in several testgames with different levels and is very likely a clone of Ron Nelson's program.
Forum Posts
- Soviet chess computers by IvenGO, HIARCS Forum, November 22, 2011
External Links
- Intellect -02 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
- Soviet Digital Electronics Museum -- Intellect 02 by Sergei Frolov
References
Mikhail Donskoy, Jonathan Schaeffer (1988). Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3↩︎
Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - Intellect 02 - Image Processor board by Sergei Frolov↩︎