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Viktor, a microcomputer chess program written in 8080 Assembly, named after Viktor Korchnoi. As mentioned by Herbert Bruderer, Viktor was developed by a private research institute for android technology (Pfiat), and was examined by Herbert Bruderer on behalf of Siemens-Nixdorf. Viktor participated at the First World Microcomputer Chess Championship 1980 in London, where it scored two points out of five rounds, running on an 8085 system with 8 KiB of Memory.

=Selected Games= WMCCC 1980, round 2, Viktor - Chess Challenger Viktor missed the win at least with 33. Kh1 versus the later champion : r2q1r2/pp1n4/6k1/b1pP4/4N3/P4P1Q/5P1P/3R1RK1 r2q1r2/pp1n4/6k1/b1pP4/4N3/P4P1Q/5P1P/3R1RK1 w - - 0 33 [Event "WMCCC 1980"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "1980.09.05"] [Round "2"] [White "Viktor"] [Black "Chess Challenger"] [Result "0-1"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Bxf6 Bxf6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Nf3 Be6 8.Qa4+ c6 9.e4 dxe4 10.Nxe4 Be7 11.Bd3 O-O 12.Ng3 Nd7 13.O-O Re8 14.b4 Bg4 15.Qc2 Bxf3 16.Bxh7+ Kh8 17.gxf3 g6 18.Bxg6 fxg6 19.Qxg6 Bxb4 20.Qh6+ Kg8 21.Qg6+ Kf8 22.Qh6+ Kf7 23.Qh5+ Ke6 24.Qf5+ Kd6 25.a3 Ba5 26.Rad1 Rf8 27.Ne4+ Ke7 28.Qg5+ Kf7 29.Qf5+ Kg7 30.Qg4+ Kh6 31.Qh3+ Kg6 32.d5 c5 {diagram} 33.Rc1 b6 34.Qe6+ Nf6 35.Nxf6 Qxf6 36.Qe4+ Kh6 37.Rc4 Qxf3 38.Qe6+ Kh5 39.Qe7 Rg8+ 40.Qg5+ Rxg5+ 0-1

=Namesake=
 * Viktor 2 by Wolfgang Rausch and Dieter Götz

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * Viktor's ICGA Tournaments (includes Viktor 2)
 * Schach dem Computer | HNF Blog, August 24, 2018 (German)

Misc

 * Victor (name) from Wikipedia
 * Viktor from Wiktionary
 * Victor from Wiktionary

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