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The '''First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988''' was held in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude], the capital of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryatia Buryat Republic], June 27-29, [[Timeline#1988|1988]], as part of the Ulan-Ude ''Computer Festival Informatics, Peace, Communication and Ecology''. The tournament was directed by [[Alexander Bitman]] with assistance of [[Mikhail Donskoy]] and [[ICCA]] observer [[Jonathan Schaeffer]].
Six programs and computers participated, three of them variants of the [[Strategist]] program. There were four notable absentees. Not present were [[Kaissa]] (retired), [[Pioneer]] (too many bugs?), [[Vladimir Butenko|Butenko's]] [[Butenko's programEureka|program]] (he required a mainframe) and [[V. Petrenko|V. Petrenko's]] program [[Elektronika IM|Elektronika IM-01]] (travel problems). [[Centaur]] by [[Victor Vikhrev]] won with 4/5, and had two identical games versus [[Strategist|Strategist-1]] and [[Strategist]] which ended in a draw <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>.
=Final Standing=
'''[[Tournaments and Matches|Up one level]]'''
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