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Victor Vikhrev [1]
Victor V. Vikhrev,
a Russian physicist and since 1968 leading researcher at Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, since 2016 emeritus
[2]. His research interests include plasma physics,
computational fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics,
nuclear fusion and solar physics.
Computer Chess
As former avocational computer chess programmer, Victor Vikhrev is primary author of the chess program Centaur, along with co-author Alexey Manjakhin. He already started chess programming in 1971, his first chess program written in Algol played its first games on a BESM-6. Centaur was later re-written in Pascal to run on an IBM PC [3]. [4].
Photos
WCCC 1999: Victor Vikhrev in Centaur vs. Mini operated by Harald Prokop
Selected Publications
- Victor V. Vikhrev (1996). The Choice of a Research Direction. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2
- Victor V. Vikhrev (2001). Reconsideration of thermonuclear possibilities of Z-pinches. Nukleonika, Vol. 46 [5]
- Vladimir M. Fadeev, Victor V. Vikhrev, et al. (2001). Self-organization of high current-carrying plasmas: dynamics of forming toroidal plasmoids in plasma columns and tubes. Nukleonika, Vol. 46, Supp. 1, pdf
External Links
- Victor Vikhrev's ICGA Tournaments
- V. V. Vikhrev | PhD | Kurchatov Institute, Moscow | Department of Synchrotron and Neutron Radiation | ResearchGate
References
- ↑ V. V. Vikhrev | PhD | Kurchatov Institute, Moscow | Department of Synchrotron and Neutron Radiation | ResearchGate
- ↑ V. V. Vikhrev | PhD | Kurchatov Institute, Moscow | Department of Synchrotron and Neutron Radiation | ResearchGate
- ↑ http://adamant1.fromru.com/centaur.html Кентавр (Russian, as of October 2018 no longer available)
- ↑ ChessPro online | Шахматный форум | Новости мира движков (Russian)
- ↑ Z-pinch from Wikipedia
