Kaissa

Moby ID: 92970

Released: 1970 on Mainframe
Credits: 8 people

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 1 players

Genre: Simulation
Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Pacing: Turn-based
Gameplay: Board game
Chess
Interface: Text parser

Supported Systems/Models: IBM 360/370
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

Description

Kaissa is a Soviet chess program named after the Renaissance chess goddess Caïssa and developed at the Moscow Institute of Control Sciences. It won the 1974 World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm and became second and forth in 1977 and 1980 respectively. The program uses a Shannon Type A strategy.

Spellings

Каисса - Russian spelling

Credits (Mainframe version)

8 People

Authors	Georgy Adelson-Velsky Vladimir Arlazarov Mikhail Donskoy
Additional Authors	Alexander Bitman A. Baraev Anatoly Uskov A. Leman M. Rozenfeld

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MobyGames ID: 92970

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Game added by vedder.

Game added July 20, 2017. Last modified February 22, 2023.