Astro 64

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Astro 64, the first Romanian chess program, written by Viorel Darie for the Felix C-256 mainframe computer at the Computer Institute of Bucharest, developed in about two years starting from 1976. Astro 64 searched about 10,000 positions per minute (166 nps) on the Felix C-256, and played a public match of one move per week in 1978/79 against the readers of a Romanian newspaper, also published in Personal Computing.

=The Match= [Event "Public Chess Match"] [Site "Romania"] [Date "1978/79"] [Round "?"] [White "Newspaper Readers"] [Black "Astro 64"] [Result "1-0"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3 Nf6 6.O-O Nxe4 7.Re1 d5 8. d3 Nf6 9.Nxe5 Nxe5 10.Rxe5+ Be6 11.Bg5 Bd6 12.Re1 O-O 13.Nd2 h6 14. Bh4 g5 15.Bg3 Bxg3 16.fxg3 Bg4 17.Nf3 Qd7 18.Qd2 Bxf3 19.gxf3 Rfe8 20. d4 Rxe1+ 21.Rxe1 a5 22.c3 a4 23.Bc2 Re8 24.Re5 c6 25.Bf5 Qd8 26.h4 gxh4 27.Qxh6 Rxe5 28.dxe5 Qb6+ 29.Kg2 hxg3 30.Qg5+ Kf8 31.exf6 Qf2+ 32.Kh3 Qh2+ 33.Kg4 c5 34.Qg7+ 1-0

=See also=
 * Labirint 64

=Publications=
 * Ulrich Friedberg (1978). A Roumanian Rhapsody - Computer Felix C-256 Plays Chess. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp. 76
 * Editor (1978). Rumbles from Roumania. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. 62
 * Editor (1979). Romanian Computer Loses to Newspaper Readers. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 45

=External Links=
 * Astro from Wikipedia
 * astro- Wiktionary

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