A beautiful wood chess computer.
Two were to sell on eBay from September to November 2021. Probably, more will appear. One had blond wood and the second dark walnut wood. For the moment, I put this computer is the X-RARE category (eXtremely-RARE), but I will lower the category if more exemplars appear.
This one was built in 1990, and its id number is 1432.
The computer was opened and I took some photos: the microprocessor and all the components of the motherboard are easily identifiable. The KR580VM80A (Russian: КР580ВМ80А) is a Soviet microprocessor. It is a clone of the Intel 8080 CPU. Its clock speed is between 2 and 2.5 MHz.
On the software side, the program was developed by E. Surmin and S. Korbatov and apparently is not a clone of a western program.
An interesting game between the Strategist and the Intellect-01 (both of the computers are part of the ChessEval Collection and both have identified soviet programmers):
[Event "First Soviet Computer Championship"][Date "1988"] [White "Strategist-A"]
[Black "Intellect-01"]
[Result "1 - 0"]
1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 Nc6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e3 Be7 6. Bd2 O-0 7. Bb5 a6 8. Bd3 Nb4 9. Be2 Ne4 10. Nxe4
dxe4 11. Ne5 f6 12. Nc4 b5 13. a3 Nd5 14. Na5 Bd7 15. O-O g5 16. b4 gxf4 17. exf4 f5 18. c4 bc4 19.
Bxe4 Bf6 20. Nb3 Nb6 21. Be2 NdS 22. g4 e6 23. gS Be7 24. NeS BeS 2S. h4 h6 26. gxh6 Bf6 27. Bel
Ne3 2S. Qbl Qxd4 29. Nb3 QdS 30. Rf2 Rd8 31. Ra2 bxh4 32. Rb2 Bxf2+ 33. Bxf2 Ng4 34. Rd2 Nxf2
3S. Rxd5 Nh3+ 36. Kh2 exdS 37. Kxh3 Kh7 3S. Nd4 Bd7 39. Qel RdeS 40. Qfl RgS 41. Bxa6 KxhG 42.
a4 RbS 43. bS eS 44. Nb3 e4 4S. NeS BeS 46. BxeS RbxeS 47. Ne6 RaS 4S. Qal RaeS 49. Qf6+ KhS SO.
QxfS+ Kh6 S1. Qf6+ KhS S2. Ng7+ Rxg7 S3. Qxg7 RdS S4. Qh7++ 1 - O.
The Strategist Стратег participated to the First Soviet Computer Championship in 1988.
# Program 1 2 3 4 5 6 P
1 Centaur X ½ 1 1 ½ 1 4
2 Strategist-1 ½ X ½ 1 1 ½ 3½
3 Algir 0 ½ X ½ 1 1 3
4 Strategist-A 0 0 ½ X ½ 1 2
5 Strategist ½ 0 0 ½ X ½ 1½
6 Intellect 0 ½ 0 0 ½ X 1
