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**Chesstar**,
a chess program written by [[Lincoln Shannon]] <ref>[[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1711384/|Chess Becomes Mechanized]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Daily_News|Hays Daily News]], October 31, 1976, pp. 12</ref> which played the [[ACM 1976]], running on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316|Honeywell x16]] 16-bit minicomputer <ref>[[David Levy]] (**1977**). //1976 US Computer Chess Championship//. Computer Science Press, Woodland Hills, CA</ref>.

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Astronomy|Astronomy]]
[[#LExChesstar]]
=Selected Games=
[[ACM 1976]], round 4, [[L'Excentrique]] - [[Chesstar]] <ref>[[http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm|Important games - The North American Championship]] hosted by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]]</ref> <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_we_have_a_problem|Houston, we have a problem from Wikipedia]]</ref>
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[Event "ACM 1976"]
[Site "Houston TX"]
[Date "1976.10.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "L'Excentrique"]
[Black "Chesstar"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6 3.e4 a5 4.Qd5 h6 5.a4 Qe7 6.h4 Qb4+ 7.c3 Qb6 8.Bc4 Bc5 
9.Qxf7+ Kd8 10.Qxg7 d6 11.Qf8+ Kd7 12.e6# 1-0
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=References= 
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