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 * [[image:Adelson-Velsky-G.Moscow-1980.jpg width="286" height="203" link="Georgy Adelson-Velsky"]] ||~  || In 1965, John McCarthy, by then at Stanford University, visited the Soviet Union. A group using the M-2 computer at Alexander Kronrod’s laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (**ITEP**) challenged him to a match. Kronrod considered the Kotok-McCarthy-Program to be the best program in the United States at the time.

At the end of 1966 a four game correspondence match began between the Kotok-McCarthy program, running on a IBM 7090 computer, and a program developed at the ITEP, written by Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov, Anatoly Uskov, Alexander Zhivotovsky, and advised by Russian chess master Alexander Bitman and three-time world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.

The match played over nine months was won 3-1 by the ITEP program. Despite playing on weaker hardware, it was the better program. Based on Shannon Type A, it could took advantage on the tactical oversights of the Kotok-McCarthy-Program, caused by it flaws of the Shannon Type B plausible move generator. || toc =Quotes=
 * [[image:JohnMcCarthy.jpg width="286" height="238" link="John McCarthy"]] ||~  ||^   ||
 * Georgy Adelson-Velsky John McCarthy ||~   ||^   ||

Cold War on an 8x8 Board
Excerpt from //Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess// :



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Biography AS Kronrod
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=See also=
 * History of Computer Chess
 * The History of Computer Chess - an AI Perspective - Video

=Publications= > Chapter III. The Kotok-McCarthy Chess Program versus the ITEP Chess Program
 * Monroe Newborn (**1975**). //Computer Chess//. [|Academic Press], New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-125-17250-8.

=External Links=
 * [|Kotok-McCarthy-Program from Wikipedia]
 * [|Opening Moves: Origins of Computer Chess] from The Computer History Museum

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