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is a Russian computer scientist. In 1963 at Alexander Kronrod’s laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (**ITEP**), Alexander Zhivotovsky co-developed the ITEP Chess Program, together with Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov and Anatoly Uskov, advised by Russian chess master Alexander Bitman and three-time world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
 * Alexander A. Zhivotovsky**,

At the end of 1966 a 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 The **ITEP** program, despite playing on slower hardware.

=Selected Publications=
 * 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.

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 * [|Early Reference on Bit-Boards] by Tony Warnock, rgc, October 29, 1994

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