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was a Russian programmer, chess master <ref>[http://www.365chess.com/players/Alexander_R_Bitman Alexander R. Bitman's Chess Games from 365chess.com]</ref>, and [[Go]] player <ref>[http://senseis.xmp.net/?AlexanderBitman Sensei's Library: Alexander Bitman]</ref>. Alexander Bitman was co-developer and Chess adviser of the [[ITEP Chess Program]] at [[Alexander Kronrod|Alexander Kronrod’s]] laboratory at the Moscow [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics]] ('''ITEP'''). At the end of 1966 the [[Stanford-ITEP Match|four game match]] began between the [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]], running on a [[IBM 7090]] computer, and the [[ITEP Chess Program]] on a Soviet [[M-220]] computer <ref>[http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/m2.htm The Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2] by the [[Russian Virtual Computer Museum]]</ref>. The match played over nine months was won 3-1 by the '''ITEP''' program. Alexander Bitman became member of the [[Kaissa]] team <ref>[[Kaissa#HistoryofKaissa|History of Kaissa]]</ref>, which won the [[WCCC 1974|First World Computer Chess Championship]] 1974 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm Stockholm]. In 1988, after Kaissa's retirement, Bitman was tournament director of the [[First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988|First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude] <ref>[[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1988'''). ''Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant''. [[ICGA Journal#11_23|ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3]]</ref>.

* [[Vladimir Arlazarov]] and , [[Alexander Bitman]] ('''1968'''). ''Will the machine beat man?'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakhmaty_v_SSSR Shakhmaty v SSSR], 2, 9–11