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Intellect,
a chess program by Y. Kubinov, which played the First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988 in Ulan-Ude. The tournament report mentions Intellect ran on a special processor at 2MHz, written in assembly to perform an alpha-beta search with 20 pos/sec ^[1].

Intellect-02

During the championship, the Soviet Computer-Chess Federation was founded, to support computer chess and to establish a cooperative for producing chess computers. The dedicated chess computer Intellect-02 with KR580VM80A processor ^[2], a Soviet Intel 8080 clone, was released the same year, 1988.

Intellect-02 cover [3]

Forum Posts

• Soviet chess computers by IvenGO, Hiarcs Forum, November 22, 2011

External Links

• Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - Intellect 02 by Sergei Frolov
• Intellect -02 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters

References

1. ^ Mikhail Donskoy, Jonathan Schaeffer (1988). Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3
2. ^ Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - Intellect 02 - Image Processor board by Sergei Frolov
3. ^ Intellect -02 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters

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