Author: Dick Schneiders
Date: 06:57:54 08/11/05
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On August 11, 2005 at 09:19:54, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >He mentions that he heard that maybe only 250 Chess Challenger 1s were ever >sold, so if that is true the ones with plastic chess pieces must be very rare! > >No mention of plastic pieces is made on the site, Ismenio has pictures of the >computer with plastic pieces but those are from a CC7, they seem to be different >from the pieces displayed on the box of the CC1 or CC3 that are clearly Black >and White and not exactly of the Staunton model that the later Chess Challengers >had. > > Regards, Eelco As Steve says, this idea that only 250 CC1's still exist is pure speculation, and has very little basis in fact. There were 1,000 sold, and this notion of only 250 comes from somebody's estimate that 3/4 of those were sent back in to Fidelity to be upgraded to a CC3. This seems way out of proportion to me, also. However, a CC1 with original plastic pieces, like I am certain this latest one of mine is, does not seem to be mentioned anywhere that I am able to find. I am going to attempt to ask the question on the German sites, but since Fidelity was an American company and relatively few of them made it to Europe in the early days, I doubt I will get any definitive answers. I almost threw these small plastic pieces into my discards with the other cheap stuff I don't want. I thought that they were simply some crappy replacement pieces somebody had added to this CC1. Then I looked at one of the rooks, and noticed that it had a very distinctive top to it. I thought I had seen it somewhere else, and when I looked at the picture on the CC1 box, there it was! They are still crappy, cheap plastic pieces, but now I am certain they are the original pieces for this very early CC1. Dick Schneiders
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