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'''Centaur''' (Russian: Кентавр),<br/>
a chess program by primary author [[Victor Vikhrev]] and [[Alexey Manjakhin]]. Centaur won the [[First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude], and further competed at the [[First International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR 1989]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow Moscow], at three [[World Computer Chess Championship|World Computer Chess Championships]], the [[WCCC 1989]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton Edmonton], the [[WCCC 1992]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid Madrid], and the [[WCCC 1999]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn Paderborn], four [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship|World Microcomputer Chess Championships]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=57 Centaur's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> , two [[Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship|Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championships]], and three [[Aegon Tournaments|Aegon Man-Machine Tournaments]] <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=50 CSVN Aegon 1995 site]</ref> <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=50 CSVN Aegon 1996 site]</ref> <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=50 CSVN Aegon 1997 site]</ref>.
Centaur, along with some code units incorporated from [[Mirage]] by [[Vladimir Rybinkin]] and [[Yuri Shpeer]], further evolved to the [[Dragon (Chess Assistant)|Dragon]] analysis engine of [[ChessOK|Convekta's]] [[Chess Assistant]] database <ref>[http://chessok.com/?page_id=19894 Chess Assistant] - [[ChessOK]]</ref>, not to confused with the original [[Dragon RU|Dragon]] engine by Yuri Shpeer <ref>[http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=26:39751-20#308 Заставить работать машину клиента! [20] - Конференция iXBT.com], September 01, 2009</ref>.
