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a '''Che'''ss-'''O'''riented '''P'''rocessing '''S'''ystem with a dedicated chess processor, developed end of the 70s at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] by [[John Moussouris]], [[Jack Holloway]] and [[Richard Greenblatt]], derived from the original conception and design of a 8x8 hardware chess array instrumented by [[Edward Fredkin]]. CHEOPS was used by [[Alan Baisley|Baisley's]] [[Tech#Tech2|Tech 2]] and a [[Brute-Force|brute force]] version of [[Richard Greenblatt|Greenblatt's]] [[Mac Hack]] <ref>[[John Moussouris]], [[Jack Holloway]], [[Richard Greenblatt]] ('''1979'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=61701.67028 CHEOPS: A Chess-orientated Processing System]''. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/MI/mi9.html Machine Intelligence 9], reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]</ref>, but unfortunately have never competed in computer chess tournaments with this approach. According to [[Joe Condon]] and [[Ken Thompson]], already working on a chess hardware for [[Belle]], the problem with CHEOPS was the lack of positional [[Evaluation|evaluation]] support <ref>[[Joe Condon]] and , [[Ken Thompson]] ('''1982'''). ''Belle Chess Hardware''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 3]], Reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]</ref>.  =Block Diagrams=[[File:Cheops.png|border|1024px|CHEOPS block diagram]][[File:Charm1.png|border|1024px|CHARM block diagram]]

=External Links= * PDP-10 software for controlling CHEOPS: [https://engithub.wikipedia.orgcom/wiki/Khufu Khufu from Wikipedia]* [https:PDP-10/its/en.wikipedia.orgblob/wikimaster/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza Great Pyramid of Giza from Wikipedia]* [http:src/chprog/wwwccheop.projekt-cheops.com/plain.aspx?languageId=22&menuId=62&sectionId=230&cmd= Project Cheops484 CHPROG; CCHEOP 484]* hosted by [[httpUser://home.comcast.net/%7ECheopsGuild/Cheops/Cheops.html Cheops, Pyramid ChessLarsbrinkhoff|Lars Brinkhoff]]* CHEOPS microcode source: [httphttps://www.chessvariantsgithub.com/d.link/pyramid.html Pyramid Chess, a three dimensional chess variant]* [http://cheopsPDP-ng.sourceforge.net10/ Cheopsits-ng]* [https:vault/blob/en.wikipedia.orgmaster/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Houdin Jean-Pierre Houdin] - Cheops Revealed (1 of 4), [https:files/agb/en.wikipediachucod.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube83 AGB; CHUCOD 83] Videohosted by [[User: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=419GXroRm7Q?rel=0Larsbrinkhoff|alignment=left|valignment=top}}Lars Brinkhoff]]