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an early Soviet chess program, developed since 1963 at Alexander Kronrod’s laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (**ITEP**) by Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov, Anatoly Uskov, Alexander Zhivotovsky, A. Leman, M. Rozenfeld and Russian chess master Alexander Bitman, to run under the Soviet M-2 and M-20 computers.
 * The ITEP Chess Program**,

=Shannon Type A= The ITEP Program already was a Shannon Type A program, encouraged by Kronrod’s "general recursive search scheme", and by Alexander Brudno's description of the Alpha-Beta algorithm.

=Stanford-ITEP= //see Stanford-ITEP Match//

In 1965, while John McCarthy visited the Soviet Union, he was challenged by Kronrod, who considered the Kotok-McCarthy-Program to be the best program in the United States at the time. At the end of 1966 the four game match was arranged between Kotok-McCarthy, running on a IBM 7090 computer, and the ITEP Program on a M-2. The match played over nine months was won 3-1 by the ITEP Program, which searches either three (first two games) or five plies (improved version) ahead.

=Kaissa= By 1971, Mikhail V. Donskoy joined with Arlazarov and Uskov to program its successor on an [|ICL System 4/70] at the Institute of Control Sciences, called Kaissa, which became the first World Computer Chess Champion at the WCCC 1974 in Stockholm.

=Quotes=

Donskoy
Quote from Mikhail Donskoy's //life cycle of a programmer// : include page="Quote Donskoy"

Yershov
Quote from //Biography AS Kronrod// by Alexander Yershov include page="Quote Yershov" =External Links=
 * [|The Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2] from Russian Virtual Computer Museum
 * [|GreKo - Download] has a listing of the ITEP Chess Program for the M-20 computer, hosted by Vladimir Medvedev
 * [|"Каисса" - Историю программы рассказывает один из ее создателей Михаил Донской] - [|Kaissa] by Mikhail Donskoy, translated by [|Google Translate]
 * [|Михаил Донской: Жизненный цикл программиста - ПОЛИТ.РУ] (Russian) Mikhail Donskoy - [|The life cycle of a programmer] translated by [|Google Translate], [|polit.ru] August 20, 2008

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