FIDELITY ELECTRONICS LD. INC was an American company, founded in 1959, bought in March 1970 by Sidney and Myron Samole. From 1976, Fidelity Electronics developed and manufactured dedicated chess computers. On February 21, 1984, FIDELITY ELECTRONICS LD. INC filed its petition for relief under Chapter 7 of Bankruptcy Code and transferred its ownership to FIDELITY COMPUTER PRODUCTS INC. becoming later FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL,INC. Their computers won the first four World Microcomputer Chess Championships: London 1980 (Chess Challenger ), Travemünde 1981 (Fidelity X), Budapest 1983 (Elite A/S), and Glasgow 1984 (Elite). They won 4 consecutive years the United States Open Computer Chess Championships (Mobile, Alabama) in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988. Sold in 1989 to Hegener & Glaser. Fidelity disappeared definitely in 1992.
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by CHVL » Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:24 am
This is one of the rare Champion Elite (2 according to Wikipedia, in fact, there are 3) with the original program X and the hardware modifications of the the World Machine (WM) Tournament Winner of the World Championship.
Its history is described by Veldhuis:
https://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_vel ... grade).pdf
The computer is part of the ChessEval Collection since many years now.
Specs:
- program: Dan and Kathe Spracklen
- release: September 1981
- upgraded by Wilfried Bucke to the Tournament Machine
- microprocessor: 6502C
- clock: 5 ~ 5,2 MHz
- ROM: 24 KB
- RAM: 16 KB
- Elo: 1700
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