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Albatross, a chess program by Michael Parker written in Z80 assembly. Albatross participated at the WMCCC 1980, the European MCC 1981 and European MCC 1983, running on a Nascom 1 computer.

=Don't shoot the Albatross= Quote by Tony Harrington on the Albatross during the 4th European MCC 1983 Mike Parker's program, Albatross, which finished the Tournament with one and a half points - much to its author's delight - turned out to be vulnerable to spectators. Someone took a flashlight photo rather too close to it and the Nascom 1, on which the Albatross was running, promptly had a seizure. This prompted cries of 'Don't shoot the Albatross' for the next seven rounds whenever anyone with a camera appeared on the scene.

=Selected Games= WMCCC 1980 round 1: Sargon 2.0 - Albatross [Event "WMCCC 1980"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "1980.09.04"] [Round "1"] [White "Sargon 2.0"] [Black "Albatross"] [Result "0-1"]

1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Be7 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Qd5 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.Nxd5 exd5 8.Bf4 Bd6 9.Bxd6 Bf5 10.Bxc7 a5 11.Bd3 Be4 12.O-O Nf6 13.Be5 h6 14.Bxf6 O-O 15.Be5 Nb4 16.Bxe4 dxe4 17.Nd2 b5 18.Nxe4 f6 0-1 {time}

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * Albatross' ICGA Tournaments

Misc

 * Albatross fom Wikipedia
 * Albatross (disambiguation) fom Wikipedia
 * Albatross (metaphor) fom Wikipedia
 * Passport - Albatross Song, album Cross-Collateral (1975), YouTube Video
 * lineup: Klaus Doldinger, Curt Cress, Wolfgang Schmid, Kristian Schultze

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