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After graduated from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], Kotok lost interest in computer chess but his program remained alive. When McCarthy left MIT to take charge of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at [[Stanford University|Stanford]], he took Kotok's program with him and improved it's searching. At the end of 1966 a [[Stanford-ITEP Match|four game match]] began between the Kotok-McCarthy program, running on a [[IBM 7090]] computer, and a program developed at the [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics]] (ITEP) in Moscow which used a Soviet [[M-2]] 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 The ITEP program, despite playing on slower hardware.

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