Elektronika+IM

a series of [|Soviet] dedicated chess computers developed and produced by [|Saint Petersburg] (Leningrad) //Svetlana Factory//. The ICCA Journal report on the First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988 by Mikhail Donskoy and Jonathan Schaeffer mentions //Electronics-01// by V. Petrenko, Leningrad, special hardware, DEC Assembly, 8KiB ROM, 1KiB RAM, a 200 moves opening book, and alpha-beta search with 25 positions per second. The program ran on PDP-11 [|extended instruction set] compatible 16-bit Soviet [|K1801VM1] processor.
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 * [[image:Elektronika_IM_-_01.JPG link="http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/elektronika_im_-_01.html"]] ||~ || **Elektronika IM**, (Электроника ИМ)

According to Mike Watters, the Elektronika IM-01 was manufactured in the [|Soviet Union] already in 1986. [|Elektronika], the brand name, is mainly associated with [|calculators], computers, [|watches] and [|video games]. IM stands for microprocessor game. The chess computer was a sophisticated machine with a wide range of options. || toc =Tournament Play= Due to travel problems, Elektronika IM-01 was unable to reach [|Ulan-Ude] in time to play the First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988. Arriving after the last round, exhibition games were arranged against the three top finisher Centaur, Strategist-1 and Algir. Petrenko's program scored 2½/3 drawing from Centaur, while only using a 1-ply search. At the First International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR 1989 in [|Moscow], Elektronika IM became fifth with 2½/7 in a strong field dominated by Mephisto.
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=Forum Posts=
 * [|Soviet chess computers] by IvenGO, Hiarcs Forum, November 22, 2011
 * [|Elektronika IM-01] by Volodymyr, Hiarcs Forum, November 20, 2017

=External Links=
 * [|Elektronika IM - 01] from [|Chess Computer UK] by Mike Watters
 * [|Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - Elektronika IM-01] by [|Sergei Frolov]
 * [|Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - Elektronika IM-01T] by [|Sergei Frolov]
 * [|Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - Elektronika IM-05] by [|Sergei Frolov]
 * [|Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - The chess partner Elektronika IM-29] by [|Sergei Frolov]
 * [|Elektronika IM-01], [|Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)

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