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an early chess program, and first chess computer to play in a [|U.S. Open], held in [|Columbus, Ohio], 1977. According to Harold Lundstrom's [|Deseret News] article, it was far from the best of its class, good at picking up loose pawns, but with a bad habit of overlooking mates, in total winnning four and losing eight games. A 1977 [|USCF] letter to Mr. John Griffin, published in Douglas Penrod's 1977 Computer Chess Newsletter, No. 2, Pg. 13, mentions Sneaky Pete with a rating of 1209.
 * Sneaky Pete**,

=Selected Games=
 * [[image:http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?fen=6Rb/1pp4P/p1p5/N1P5/KP2k3/3r4/P7/8%20b%20-%20-&size=large&coord=yes&cap=no&stm=yes&fb=no&theme=classic&color1=E3CEAA&color2=635147&color3=000000]] ||~ || As much as Sneaky Pete would love to play 61...b5#, White has this forced  en passant capture in reply, when his king will easily escape and Black's bishop will soon go lost. But Sneaky Pete came up with the brilliant 61...b6!!. Of course, White could just enter the winning line with 62.cxb6, but it isn't forced and he has a chance to blunder. And sure enough, White cooperated :

|| =Publications=
 * [|Sneaky Pete loses tourney] by [|Harold Lundstrom], [|Deseret News], September 23, 1977, via [|Google News]
 * Douglas Penrod (ed.) (**1977**). //[|Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]//. [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum, Courtesy of Peter Jennings

=Forum Posts=
 * [|"Sneaky Pete" program from 1977?] by Carey, CCC, October 27, 2005

=External Links=
 * [|Computer Chess Trivia] by Bill Wall

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