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Iron Fish, a mainframe chess program of the mid 70s by Gary Boos and James Mundstock affiliated with the University of Minnesota. Iron Fish played the ACM 1975 running on a CDC Cyber 74, where it lost from Chute 1.2 and Duchess, and drew from Sortie and Ostrich.

=Selected Games= ACM 1975, round 4, Ostrich - Iron Fish [Event "ACM 1975"] [Site "Minneapolis USA"] [Date "1975.10.21"] [Round "4"] [White "Ostrich"] [Black "Iron Fish"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qe5+ 4.Nge2 Nf6 5.d4 Qa5 6.Be3 Bf5 7.Ng3 Bg4 8.Be2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 Nbd7 10.O-O Qb4 11.Qb5 Qxb5 12.Nxb5 O-O-O 13.Nxa7+ Kb8 14.Nb5 e5 15.dxe5 Nxe5 16.Bg5 Bb4 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.c3 Rd5 19.Nxc7 Rd2 20.cxb4 Kxc7 21.b3 Kc6 22.Ne4 Re2 23.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 24.Rxe1 f5 25.Ng3 Nd3 26.Re7 f4 27.Nh5 f5 28.a3 Ra8 29.a4 b5 30.Rxh7 bxa4 31.Rh6+ Kc7 32.Rh7+ Kc6 33.Rh6+ Kc7 34.bxa4 Rxa4 35.Rh7+ Kd6 36.Rh6+ Ke5 37.Kf1 Ra1+ 38.Ke2 Nxb4 39.h4 Rc1 40.Rb6 Nd5 41.Rh6 Rc2+ 42.Kf3 Rc3+ 43.Ke2 Rc2+ 44.Kf1 Rc1+ 45.Ke2 Rc2+ 1/2-1/2

=See also=
 * Mr. Turk

=External Links=
 * Iron from Wikipedia
 * Fish from Wikipedia
 * The Iron Fish art gallery

=References=

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