Fidelity Prestige Pre-Budapest, Budapest, Glasgow X-RARE

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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Fidelity Prestige Pre-Budapest, Budapest, Glasgow X-RARE

Unread post by CHVL » Tue Dec 07, 2021 12:42 pm

THREE Prestiges with 3 different programs:
- the original Prestige with a Pre-Budapest version of the program of the Spracklen.
- the Prestige Budapest, World Champion at Budapest,
- the Prestige Glasgow.

The 3 of them are in the ChessEval Collection allowing the use of the X_RARE category.

I will complete the description later and add more photos,
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