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a chess program by [[Alexander Pokrovski]], which played the [[First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude], 3rd place, 3/5, only losing from [[Centaur]].
The tournament report mentions Algir running on an [[IBM PC]], written in [[8086]] [[Assembly|assembly]], 32 KB, performing an [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] search with 10-100 [[Nodes per Second|pos/sec]] <ref>[[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1988'''). ''Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant''. [[ICGA Journal#11_23|ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3]]</ref>.
Further, Algir played the [[First International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR 1989]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow Moscow] <ref>[[Alexander Timofeev]] ('''1989'''). ''Report on the 1st International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR''. [[ICGA JournaJournal#l12212_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]]</ref>.
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