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Tigran,
a chess program written in C++ by FIDE master Josep Parés. Tigran played the First Spanish Computer Chess Championship, the SCCC 1993 in Barcelona, and the 4th SCCC 1996 in Granada respectively, and apparently had too much chess knowledge implemented to survive from the fast searchers.

Selected Games

SCCC 1993, Tigran versus later tournament winner Betsabe [2]:

[Event "SCCC 1993"]
[Site "Barcelona"]
[Date "1993.10.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Tigran"]
[Black "Betsabe"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 a6 4.e4 b5 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.f3 e6 7.Nc3 c5 8.d5 exd5 
9.Nxd5 Nxe4 10.fxe4 Qh4+ 11.g3 Qxe4+ 12.Kf2 Qxe5 13.Qf3 Ra7 14.Kg1 Bd6 
15.a4 Qd4+ 16.Ne3 Bb7 17.Qf2 Bxh1 18.Bd2 Bb7 19.axb5 O-O 20.b6 Ra8 
21.Bxc4 Qxb2 22.Ra2 Qxb6 23.Nd5 Qb1+ 24.Qf1 Qe4 25.Nc3 Qd4+ 26.Be3 
Qxe3+ 27.Rf2 Qxc3 28.g4 Qe3 29.Bxf7+ Rxf7 30.Qe2 Bxh2+ 31.Kf1 Bg2+ 
32.Kxg2 Qg3+ 33.Kh1 Qg1# 0-1

Namesake

External Links

Tigran Hamasyan, Areni Agbabian, Ben Wendel, Chris Tordini, Nate Wood

References

  1. Stamp of Armenia, 1996, Tigran Petrosian Chess House in Yerevan, Wikimedia Commons
  2. Josep Parés, Teresa Canela (1993). Report on the 1st Spanish Computer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4

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