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Intellect, a chess program by Y. Kubinov, which played the First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988 in Ulan-Ude. The tournament report mentions Intellect ran on a special processor at 2MHz, written in assembly to perform an alpha-beta search with 20 pos/sec. During the championship, the Soviet Computer-Chess Federation was founded, to support computer chess and to establish a cooperative for producing chess computers.

=Intellect-02= The dedicated chess computer Intellect-02 with KR580VM80A processor , a Soviet Intel 8080 clone, was released the same year, 1988. It was a cartridge system with Kalah and chess programs. According to Mike Watters, the 1988 Intellect-02 chess cartridge (serial number 4315) plays exactly like the Fidelity Chess Challenger 3 in several testgames with different levels and is very likely a clone of Ron Nelson's program.

=Forum Posts=
 * Soviet chess computers by IvenGO, HIARCS Forum, November 22, 2011

=External Links=
 * Intellect -02 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
 * Soviet Digital Electronics Museum -- Intellect 02 by Sergei Frolov

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