Vladimir Arlazarov
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Vladimir L’vovich Arlazarov ( Russian Арлазаров Владимир Львович) is a Russian computer scientist born in Moscow.


Research work

In 1965 at Alexander Kronrod’s laboratory at the Moscow
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(ITEP), Vladimir Arlazarov co-developed the ITEP Chess Program, together with
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, Anatoly Uskov and Alexander Zhivotovsky, advised by Russian chess master
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and three-time world champion
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. At the end of 1966 a four game match began between the Kotok-McCarthy-Program, running on an
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computer, and the ITEP Chess Program on a Soviet M-20 computer. The match played over nine months was won 3-1 by the ITEP program, despite playing on slower hardware. By 1971,
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joined with Arlazarov and Uskov to program its successor on an ICL System 4/70 at the Institute of Control Sciences, called
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, which became the first World Computer Chess Champion in 1974 in Stockholm. Arlazarov is one of the inventors of the
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.


Selected publications

* * Reprinted in Computer Chess Compendium * * * *


See also

* David Levy


References


External links


Vladimir Arlazarov's ICGA Tournaments
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, rec.games.chess archive, October 29, 1994 {{DEFAULTSORT:Arlazarov, Vladimir Russian computer scientists Living people Soviet computer scientists Year of birth missing (living people)