Author: James T. Walker
Date: 20:14:29 11/16/00
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On November 16, 2000 at 21:25:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 16, 2000 at 20:55:25, Walter Koroljow wrote: > >>The November Chess Life from USCF has an article extolling Sid Samole. He >>invented computer chess, he won tournaments x,y,z, etc. But it is written in >>such a fuzzy way that I never did find out what he did. > > >He didn't invent computer chess. He didn't develop a chess program. He >was the president of Fidelity Electronics (in Miami, FL) which developed >and sold the various Fidelity chess machines. Most (or all) of the >programs in those machines came from the Spracklens... > Hello Bob, Filelity made the Chess Challenger 3 then the Chess Challenger 10 then the Chess Challenger 7. I don't know who wrote the programs for those machines. I wish I did. I'm sure this was before the Spraklens. They brought the "Sargon" program with them when they were hired. I believe the Chess Challenger series was the first commercial chess machines although "Boris" was very close in there somewhere. Jim >> >>It seems a fact that he started Fidelity Electronics which was a very good thing >>to do, but at what level was his contribution? Did he code, exhort, fund, or >>what? >> >>Thanks for any information, >> >>Walter
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