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Subject: Re: What Chess programs existed in the '60s?

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 06:03:39 04/14/00

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On April 14, 2000 at 08:19:50, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello,
>Here is a game I dug up between a Stanford University computer and a Moscow
>University computer around 1968. It was taken from George Koltanowski's book
>"TV-Chess".
>White: Russian Computer    Black: Stanford Computer   Game 1 of 4 game match.
>1. P-K4		P-K4
>2. N-Kb3	NQB3
>3. N-B3		B-B4
>4. NxP		NxN
>5. P-Q4		B-Q3
>6. PxN		BxP
>7. P-B4		BxN+
>8. PxB		N-B3
>9. P-K5		N-K5
>10. Q-Q3	N-B4
>11. Q-Q5	N-K3
>12. P-B5	N-N4
>13. P-KR4	PKB3
>14. PxN		PxNP
>15. RxP		R-B1
>16. RxP		P-B3
>17. Q-Q6	RxP
>18. R-N8+	R-B1
>19. QxR++
>
>Here is another game from the same book.
>
>White: Mac Hack 6   Black Ben Landey (Massachusetts Open)
>
>1. P-K4		P-QB4
>2. P-Q4		PxP
>3. QxP		N-QB3
>4. Q-Q3		N-B3
>5. N-QB3	P-KN3
>6. N-B3		P-Q3
>7. B-B4		P-K4
>8. B-N3		P-QR3
>9. 0-0-0	P-QN4
>10. P-QR4	B-R3+
>11. K-N1	P-N5
>12. QxQP	B-Q2
>13. B-R4	B-N2
>14. N-Q5	NxP
>15. N-B7+	QxN
>16. QxQ		N-B4
>17. Q-Q6	B-KB1
>18. Q-Q5	R-B1
>19. NxP		B-K3
>20. QxN+	RxQ
>21. R-Q8+
>
>Jim Walker

I have translated this into PGN. I hope there are now errors.

[Event "TV Chess"]
[Site "*"]
[Date "1968.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Russian Computer"]
[Black "Stanford Computer"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Nxe5 5. d4 Bd6 6. dxe5 Bxe5 7. f4
Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 Nf6 9. e5 Ne4 10. Qd3 Nc5 11. Qd5 Ne6 12. f5 Ng5 13. h4 f6
14. hxg5 fxg5 15. Rxh7 Rf8 16. Rxg7 c6 17. Qd6 Rxf5 18. Rg8+ Rf8 19. Qxf8#
1-0

[Event "Old TV Chess (Massachusetts Open)"]
[Site "*"]
[Date "*"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Mac Hack 6"]
[Black "Ben Landey"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qd3 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Nf3 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8.
Bg3 a6 9. O-O-O b5 10. a4 Bh6+ 11. Kb1 b4 12. Qxd6 Bd7 13. Bh4 Bg7 14. Nd5
Nxe4 15. Nc7+ Qxc7 16. Qxc7 Nc5 17. Qd6 Bf8 18. Qd5 Rc8 19. Nxe5 Be6 20.
Qxc6+ Rxc6 21. Rd8#
1-0

Regards
Andreas Stabel



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