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All my tests show that SF at 50K/sec - might be somewhere at the GM level - whether it is a Super GM or a more ordinary GM, who knows. I would be interested in hearing from Larry Kaufman on this. The Revelation is a device that reportedly plays at GM level and it see around 100K/nps ( roughly - I d...

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There is an interesting article by David Levy "Alan Turing on Computer Chess" from S. Barry Cooper, J. van Leeuwen "Alan Turing: His Work and Impact" about Turing's "paper machine":
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See also quotes from an article in the journal "Problems of Cybernetics" No. 15, 1965, which was written by E.A. Evgrafov and I.B. Zadyhailo: “Only small isolated groups work on the creation of a chess machine, and not all the time, but from time to time. <...> This article contains the results of ...

So it seems the program mentioned in Tomanov's 1961 article was not "Shura-Bura's Program" but likely a forerunner of the ITEP chess program by Georgy Adelson-Velsky et al.. Sorry for GoogleTranslate, but I want to bring some clarity on the Shura-Bura program. From the article by Tumanov it is obvi...