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=Computer Chess=
As former avocational computer chess programmer, Victor Vikhrev is primary author of the chess program [[Centaur]], along with co-author [[Alexey Manjakhin]].
He already started chess programming in 1971, his first chess program written in [[Algol]] played its first games on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESM#BESM-6 BESM-6].
Centaur was later re-written in [[Pascal]] to run on an [[IBM PC]] <ref>http://adamant1.fromru.com/centaur.html Кентавр (Russian, as of October 2018 no longer available)</ref>. <ref>[https://chesspro.ru/guestnew/looknullmessage/?themeid=54&id=31&page=10#54-31-4381 ChessPro online | Шахматный форум | Новости мира движков] (Russian)</ref>.
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