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was a Russian programmer, chess master, and Go player. Alexander Bitman was co-developer and Chess adviser of the ITEP Chess Program at Alexander Kronrod’s laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (**ITEP**). At the end of 1966 the four game match began between the Kotok-McCarthy-Program, running on a IBM 7090 computer, and the ITEP Chess Program on a Soviet M-2 computer. The match played over nine months was won 3-1 by the **ITEP** program. Alexander Bitman became member of the Kaissa team, which won the First World Computer Chess Championship 1974 in [|Stockholm]. In 1988, after Kaissa's retirement, Bitman was tournament director of the First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship in [|Ulan-Ude].
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 * [[image:Bitman.jpg link="http://aboutgo.ru/pogib-aleksandr-rafailovich-bitman/"]] ||~ || **Alexander Rafailovich Bitman**, (Александр Рафаилович Битман, 1939 - September 9, 2013)

On September 9, 2013, Alexander Rafailovich Bitman was killed by a hit-and-run car accident at the Institute of Systems Analysis, [|Bersenevskaya waterfront] in Moscow. toc =Quotes= Tony Marsland and Monty Newborn in their report of their USSR visit, December 1980 :
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=See also=
 * First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988
 * History of Kaissa

=Selected Publications=
 * Vladimir Arlazarov and Alexander Bitman (**1968**). //Will the machine beat man?// [|Shakhmaty v SSSR], 2, 9–11
 * Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov, Alexander Bitman, Alexander Zhivotovsky and Anatoly Uskov (**1970**). //[|Programming a Computer to Play Chess]//. [|Russian Mathematical Surveys, Vol. 25], pp. 221-262.
 * Г.М. Адельсон-Вельский, В.Л. Арлазаров, А.Р. Битман, М.В. Донской (**1983**). Машина играет в шахматы, [|pdf] (book with detailed explanations of Kaissa algorithms, language: Russian)
 * Jaap van den Herik (**2013**). //Alexander Bitman, an Obituary//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Early Reference on Bit-Boards] by Tony Warnock, rec.games.chess, October 29, 1994
 * [|Alexander Bitman (1939-2013)] by Vladimir Medvedev, CCC, September 11, 2013
 * [|Alexander Bitman] by Harvey Williamson, Hiarcs Forum, September 22, 2013

=External Links=
 * [|Alexander Bitman - Google+]
 * [|Sensei's Library: Alexander Bitman]
 * [|Alexander R. Bitman's Chess Games from 365chess.com]
 * [|The chess games of Alexander R Bitman] from [|chessgames.com]
 * [|Alex Bitman (Go_chess) on Twitter]
 * [|Погиб Александр Рафаилович Битман | Об игре го], September 11, 2013 (obituary by Mikhail Krylov)

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