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Victor V. Vikhrev, a Russian physicist and since 1968 leading researcher at Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, since 2016 emeritus . His research interests include plasma physics, computational fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, nuclear fusion and solar physics.

=Computer Chess= As former avocational computer chess programmer, Victor Vikhrev is primary author of the chess program Centaur, along with co-author Alexey Manjakhin. He already started chess programming in 1971, his first chess program written in Algol played its first games on a BESM-6. Centaur was later re-written in Pascal to run on an IBM PC. .

=Photos= WCCC 1999: Victor Vikhrev in Centaur vs. Mini operated by Harald Prokop

=Selected Publications=
 * Victor V. Vikhrev (1996). The Choice of a Research Direction. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2
 * Victor V. Vikhrev (2001). Reconsideration of thermonuclear possibilities of Z-pinches. Nukleonika, Vol. 46
 * Vladimir M. Fadeev, Victor V. Vikhrev, et al. (2001). Self-organization of high current-carrying plasmas: dynamics of forming toroidal plasmoids in plasma columns and tubes. Nukleonika, Vol. 46, Supp. 1, pdf

=External Links=
 * Victor Vikhrev's ICGA Tournaments
 * V. V. Vikhrev | PhD | Kurchatov Institute, Moscow | Department of Synchrotron and Neutron Radiation | ResearchGate

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