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'''CCCP''',<br/>
the Columbia Computer Chess Program developed by a group of students at [[Columbia University]], [[Steven M. Bellovin]], [[Aron Eisenpress]], [[Andrew Koenig]], and [[Ben Yalow]], written in [[PL 1|PL/I]]. CCCP played the [[ACM 1971]], where it ran on [[IBM 360|IBM 360/91]] at Columbia University. The project already started during the [[ACM 1970]] in collaboration with [[Hans Berliner]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]], when [[J. Biit]] was operated through a chess [[GUI]] written at Columbia for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2250 IBM 2250 Display Unit]. The four students continued to develop J. Biit, replacing the back end with a much better set of algorithms, evolving into CCCP (a pun on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic Cyrillic] abbreviation for the official name of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Soviet Union], Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик) after one year of effort <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/elliott-frank.html#cccp Recollections of CUCC 1968-70 -The CCCP Chess Program]</ref> .
=Selected Games=
[[ACM 1971]], round 3, [[CCCP (US)|CCCP]] - [[David]] <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=60&Itemid=26&lang=en PGN Download NACCC] from [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=13&Itemid=26&lang=en Computerschaak/Downloads/Games] hosted by [[CSVN]]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "ACM 1971"]
[Site "Chicago USA"]
[Date "1971.08.04"]
[Round "3"]
[White "CCCP"]
[Black "David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g5 4.Bb5 a6 5.Bxc6 dxc6 6.Be3 b5 7.Qh5 b4
8.Bxg5 Nf6 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.e5 Qg7 11.Ne4 Qxg2 12.Qf3 Qxf3 13.Nxf3
Bh6 14.Nf6+ Ke7 15.a3 bxa3 16.Rxa3 Rb8 17.O-O Rxb2 18.c4 a5 19.Rxa5
Rb3 20.Kg2 Rxf3 21.Kxf3 Bd2 22.Rc5 Bc3 23.Rxc6 Bb7 24.Nd5+ exd5
25.Rxc7+ Ke6 26.Rxb7 dxc4 27.Rb6+ Kf5 28.Rf6+ Kg5 29.Rg1+ Kh5
30.Rf5+ Kh6 31.Rf6+ Kh5 32.Rf5+ Kh6 33.Rf6+ Kh5 34.Rf5+ 1/2-1/2
</pre>
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=The Computer Was a Fish=
[[FILE:ASF_0501.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064|Analog, August 1972 <ref>Cover art by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kelly_Freas Frank Kelly Freas], supplied by [http://www.sfcovers.net/ Visco], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1972]</ref> ]]
In his essay ''The Computer Was a Fish'', published in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact Analog Science Fiction and Fact], August 1972 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115771 The Computer Was a Fish]''. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1972]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] mentions the [[ACM 1971]] and a computer chess program called CCCP, which had a certain [[Ben Yalow|Mr. Benjamin Yalow]] on the team <ref>[http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/DrinkTank319.pdf The Drink Tank 319 - Hugo for Best Novel | Chris Garcia - Editors - James Bacon] (pdf)</ref>. The essay inspired [[Charles F. Wilkes|Charles F.]] and [[Charlie Wilkes]] to write their program [[The Fox]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d6b8e Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2] 1977 by [[Douglas Penrod]], [[Charles F. Wilkes]] pp. 6-9, Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-0.Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter/Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter.1977.062303031.sm.pdf pdf reprint] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=Namesake=
* [[CCCP]] by [[Pawel Koziol]]
=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Acronym|Acronym]]
* [[Various Classifications#Fish|Fish]]
=Publications=
* [[Andrew Koenig]] ('''1978'''). ''Light-Pen used in game''. [[Personal Computing#2_5|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5]], pp. 112
=External Links=
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/index.html#cccp Computing at Columbia Timeline]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/elliott-frank.html#cccp Recollections of CUCC 1968-70 -The CCCP Chess Program]
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0 СССР - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCCP_%28disambiguation%29 CCCP (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one level]]'''
[[FILE:USSR animated flag.gif|border|right|thumbborder|right|thumb|Flying USSR flag <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union Flag of the Soviet Union], file from the [[Prelinger Archives]], which released it explicitly into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain public domain], using the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons Creative Commons] [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ Public Domain Dedication], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''CCCP''',<br/>
the Columbia Computer Chess Program developed by a group of students at [[Columbia University]], [[Steven M. Bellovin]], [[Aron Eisenpress]], [[Andrew Koenig]], and [[Ben Yalow]], written in [[PL 1|PL/I]]. CCCP played the [[ACM 1971]], where it ran on [[IBM 360|IBM 360/91]] at Columbia University. The project already started during the [[ACM 1970]] in collaboration with [[Hans Berliner]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]], when [[J. Biit]] was operated through a chess [[GUI]] written at Columbia for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2250 IBM 2250 Display Unit]. The four students continued to develop J. Biit, replacing the back end with a much better set of algorithms, evolving into CCCP (a pun on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic Cyrillic] abbreviation for the official name of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Soviet Union], Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик) after one year of effort <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/elliott-frank.html#cccp Recollections of CUCC 1968-70 -The CCCP Chess Program]</ref> .
=Selected Games=
[[ACM 1971]], round 3, [[CCCP (US)|CCCP]] - [[David]] <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=60&Itemid=26&lang=en PGN Download NACCC] from [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=13&Itemid=26&lang=en Computerschaak/Downloads/Games] hosted by [[CSVN]]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "ACM 1971"]
[Site "Chicago USA"]
[Date "1971.08.04"]
[Round "3"]
[White "CCCP"]
[Black "David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g5 4.Bb5 a6 5.Bxc6 dxc6 6.Be3 b5 7.Qh5 b4
8.Bxg5 Nf6 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.e5 Qg7 11.Ne4 Qxg2 12.Qf3 Qxf3 13.Nxf3
Bh6 14.Nf6+ Ke7 15.a3 bxa3 16.Rxa3 Rb8 17.O-O Rxb2 18.c4 a5 19.Rxa5
Rb3 20.Kg2 Rxf3 21.Kxf3 Bd2 22.Rc5 Bc3 23.Rxc6 Bb7 24.Nd5+ exd5
25.Rxc7+ Ke6 26.Rxb7 dxc4 27.Rb6+ Kf5 28.Rf6+ Kg5 29.Rg1+ Kh5
30.Rf5+ Kh6 31.Rf6+ Kh5 32.Rf5+ Kh6 33.Rf6+ Kh5 34.Rf5+ 1/2-1/2
</pre>
<span id="TheComputerWasAFish"></span>
=The Computer Was a Fish=
[[FILE:ASF_0501.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064|Analog, August 1972 <ref>Cover art by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kelly_Freas Frank Kelly Freas], supplied by [http://www.sfcovers.net/ Visco], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1972]</ref> ]]
In his essay ''The Computer Was a Fish'', published in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact Analog Science Fiction and Fact], August 1972 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115771 The Computer Was a Fish]''. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57064 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1972]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin George R. R. Martin] mentions the [[ACM 1971]] and a computer chess program called CCCP, which had a certain [[Ben Yalow|Mr. Benjamin Yalow]] on the team <ref>[http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/DrinkTank319.pdf The Drink Tank 319 - Hugo for Best Novel | Chris Garcia - Editors - James Bacon] (pdf)</ref>. The essay inspired [[Charles F. Wilkes|Charles F.]] and [[Charlie Wilkes]] to write their program [[The Fox]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d6b8e Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2] 1977 by [[Douglas Penrod]], [[Charles F. Wilkes]] pp. 6-9, Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-0.Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter/Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter.1977.062303031.sm.pdf pdf reprint] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=Namesake=
* [[CCCP]] by [[Pawel Koziol]]
=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Acronym|Acronym]]
* [[Various Classifications#Fish|Fish]]
=Publications=
* [[Andrew Koenig]] ('''1978'''). ''Light-Pen used in game''. [[Personal Computing#2_5|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5]], pp. 112
=External Links=
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/index.html#cccp Computing at Columbia Timeline]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/elliott-frank.html#cccp Recollections of CUCC 1968-70 -The CCCP Chess Program]
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0 СССР - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCCP_%28disambiguation%29 CCCP (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
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