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 » Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:33 pm
For the seventh year of Fidelity in the chess computer business, a special edition of the Champion was produced.
At the origin, only 500 were produced. With the time, their number must have decreased a lot.
In its aspect, it is similar to the Champion Sensory, but it has the CB9 openings module built inside. It runs at 2.4 MHz in place of the original 2 MHz.
Specs:
- programers: Dan & Kate Spracklen
- processor: 6502 @2.5 MHz
- RAM: 4KB
- ROM: 24 KB
- library: 8160 half moves
- levels: 11 and 2 for analysis
- related at some degree to Fidelity Prestige Challenger, Fidelity Sensory Chess Challenger Super 9,
Fidelity Super 9 Deluxe und Fidelity Chess Challenger Elite A/S.
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