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Shura-Bura's Program

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'''Shura-Bura's Program''',<br/>
an early Soviet chess program supposedly developed by a group of scientists at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steklov_Institute_of_Mathematics Steklov Institute of Mathematics] headed by [[Mikhail R. Shura-Bura]]. A brief description of the program was given in an interview with Shura-Bura on computer chess by V. Tomanov, published as part in the 8th Bulletin of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1961 Botvinnik Tal 1961 revenge-match] for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship world chess championship] - entitled "The best move in 58 seconds", cited in [[Jaap van den Herik|Jaap van den Herik's]] Ph.D. thesis ''Computerschaak, Schaakwereld en Kunstmatige Intelligentie'' <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''1983'''). ''Computerschaak, Schaakwereld en Kunstmatige Intelligentie''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Delft University of Technology]]. Academic Service, The Hague. ISBN 90 62 33 093 2 (Dutch), 2.2.9. Sjoera-Boera - translation from Russian by J.P. Warris, Russian teacher at TH Delft</ref>. Further, two games of the program were published. However, it seems, the program mentioned by Shura-Bura was not his own program, but a forerunner of the [[ITEP Chess Program]] developed by [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]] et al., also due to [[Mikhail R. Shura-Bura#ComputerizedChess|Shura-Bura's quote]], not mentioning his own chess program, and more recently, suggested by [[Sergei Markoff|Sergei S. Markoff]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70939&start=5 Re: The mystery of Alex Bernstein] by [[Sergei Markoff|Sergei S. Markoff]], [[CCC]], June 08, 2019</ref>.
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