The best games of 1971 (a selection of chess): Ostrich, Mr. Turk, David, CCCP

Let's start this year with a selection of chess games.

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Ostrich

It was created on a mainframe computer Data General Supernova, but in 1982 it became the first chess program that managed to work simultaneously on several.

The name comes from the term "head in the sand", which is one of the tactics in chess in crisis situations. 

This program participated in 15 U.S. championships, and in the first 5 World Championships that took place from 1972 to 1987. Yes, they were not very regular :).

Mr. Turk

This chess program was developed for the CDC 6600 mainframe. The development lasted at least 4 years, from 1967 to 1971. 

Participated in the second North American Chess Championship. Its main developers were programmers from the University of Minnesota who loved chess.

David

And this is already a representative of the European chess programming school. Specifically, the developers come from the Austrian city of Graz.

But this did not prevent them from participating in the second US Chess Championship in 1971. How this happened is unclear, perhaps they wanted to give more status to the competition.

CCCP

By name, you might have the mistaken opinion that this is a dictatorship simulator (CCCP is the name of the Soviet Union in Cyrillic), but no, this is a coincidence.

Namely, this abbreviation stands for Columbia Computer Chess Program. She participated in the second championship in 1971. Used a graphical interface from an earlier J. Biit.

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