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'''Rasputin''',<br/>
a mainframe chess program written by [[Jeff Rollason]] in [[Assembly]] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_College Westfield College]. Rasputin, beside [[Merlin (GB)|Merlin]] Rollason's second chess program, was apparently a [[SOMA#SOMAALGO|Swapping Off Material Analyzer]] (SOMA) approach with a static lookahead that allowed the program to play with tiny [[Search Tree|search trees]] <ref>[[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_19 SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching]''. [[CG 2000]]</ref>. Rasputin entered international competition in 1979 in participating the [[ECCC 1979|Second European Computer Chess Championship]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London].
=Games=
[[ECCC 1979]], [[Rasputin]] - [[Parwell]] <ref>[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/partie-rasputin-parwell-sms-201,1194246 Partie: Rasputin - Parwell (SMS 201)], [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]], November 02, 1979 (German)</ref>
<pre>
[Event "ECCC 1979"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1979.09.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rasputin"]
[Black "Parwell"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 Nc6 4.c4 Nb6 5.c5 Nd5 6.Bc4 e6 7.Nf3 d6 8.Bxd5 exd5
9.cxd6 cxd6 10.Bg5 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qc7 12.Bf4 Bg4 13.Nc3 Bxf3 14.gxf3 dxe5 15.Nxd5 Qa5+
16.Kf1 Qxd5 17.dxe5 Qc4+ 18.Qe2 Qxf4 19.e6 Be7 20.exf7+ Qxf7 21.Rg1 O-O 22.Rg3 Nd4
23.Qe4 Nxf3 24.Qxb7 Nxh2+ 25.Kg2 Qxf2+ 26.Kh3 Nf1 27.Rd3 Qh4+ 28.Kg2 Qh2# 0-1
</pre>
=See also=
* [[Merlin (GB)|Merlin]]
* [[Treebeard]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin_%28disambiguation%29 Rasputin (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin Grigori Rasputin from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
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[[FILE:Rasputin pt.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin Grigori Rasputin] <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rasputin_pt.jpg This image] was created and released by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum Imperial War Museum] on the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/policies/privacy-copyright/licence IWM Non Commercial Licence]. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright Crown Copyright provisions]. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Rasputin''',<br/>
a mainframe chess program written by [[Jeff Rollason]] in [[Assembly]] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_College Westfield College]. Rasputin, beside [[Merlin (GB)|Merlin]] Rollason's second chess program, was apparently a [[SOMA#SOMAALGO|Swapping Off Material Analyzer]] (SOMA) approach with a static lookahead that allowed the program to play with tiny [[Search Tree|search trees]] <ref>[[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_19 SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching]''. [[CG 2000]]</ref>. Rasputin entered international competition in 1979 in participating the [[ECCC 1979|Second European Computer Chess Championship]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London].
=Games=
[[ECCC 1979]], [[Rasputin]] - [[Parwell]] <ref>[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/partie-rasputin-parwell-sms-201,1194246 Partie: Rasputin - Parwell (SMS 201)], [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]], November 02, 1979 (German)</ref>
<pre>
[Event "ECCC 1979"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1979.09.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rasputin"]
[Black "Parwell"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 Nc6 4.c4 Nb6 5.c5 Nd5 6.Bc4 e6 7.Nf3 d6 8.Bxd5 exd5
9.cxd6 cxd6 10.Bg5 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qc7 12.Bf4 Bg4 13.Nc3 Bxf3 14.gxf3 dxe5 15.Nxd5 Qa5+
16.Kf1 Qxd5 17.dxe5 Qc4+ 18.Qe2 Qxf4 19.e6 Be7 20.exf7+ Qxf7 21.Rg1 O-O 22.Rg3 Nd4
23.Qe4 Nxf3 24.Qxb7 Nxh2+ 25.Kg2 Qxf2+ 26.Kh3 Nf1 27.Rd3 Qh4+ 28.Kg2 Qh2# 0-1
</pre>
=See also=
* [[Merlin (GB)|Merlin]]
* [[Treebeard]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin_%28disambiguation%29 Rasputin (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin Grigori Rasputin from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
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