Fidelity Elite Champion EC (1981)
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:01 am
Several pieces in the ChessEval Collection.
- Champion Elite with Program X;
- Champion Elite "500 only".
1- The Fidelity Travemunde Tournament Machine had:
- the Program X with a special opening library and,
- a 65C02@5 MHz processor + 16 KB RAM + 32 KB ROM.
The Tournament Machine won the World MicroComputer Chess Championship at Travemunde-Hamburg in 1981.
2- The Fidelity Chess Challenger Elite Champion is the limited commercial version (500 exemplars). To do not reveal to the competition the particularities of the Travemunde Tournament Machine, Fidelity downgraded many technical features:
- program and hardware: library is different and smaller;
- microprocessor, RAM and ROM: 65C02@4 MHz processor + 4 KB RAM + 24 KB ROM.
3= Three to five devices have the Tournament Original technical requirements:
- one is the original Travemünde Tournament Machine itself and,
- two to four are Champion Elite which were upgraded after the Championship to the Travemünde Tournament Machine specifications by Wilfried Bucke.
The Elite was the strongest and best featured chess computer of its period.
- Champion Elite with Program X;
- Champion Elite "500 only".
1- The Fidelity Travemunde Tournament Machine had:
- the Program X with a special opening library and,
- a 65C02@5 MHz processor + 16 KB RAM + 32 KB ROM.
The Tournament Machine won the World MicroComputer Chess Championship at Travemunde-Hamburg in 1981.
2- The Fidelity Chess Challenger Elite Champion is the limited commercial version (500 exemplars). To do not reveal to the competition the particularities of the Travemunde Tournament Machine, Fidelity downgraded many technical features:
- program and hardware: library is different and smaller;
- microprocessor, RAM and ROM: 65C02@4 MHz processor + 4 KB RAM + 24 KB ROM.
3= Three to five devices have the Tournament Original technical requirements:
- one is the original Travemünde Tournament Machine itself and,
- two to four are Champion Elite which were upgraded after the Championship to the Travemünde Tournament Machine specifications by Wilfried Bucke.
The Elite was the strongest and best featured chess computer of its period.