Author: Jonathan Parle
Date: 16:22:27 02/16/02
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On February 16, 2002 at 00:10:29, J. Lewis wrote: >I recently came across a table top model known as "Fidelity Gambit." Does >anybody out there know anything about it? Is it comparable to, say, the Fidelity >"Excellence" (tabletop)(programmers Dan and Kathe Spracklen) which was out >sometime in (1985?). Is the "Gambit" also a Spracklen program? >Thanks. The Fidelity Gambit was only a 4K program and had a small but useful openings library. It was very similar to the Fidelity Classic, the main difference being the style of the housings used. It was certainly in no way comparable to the Excellence which played at least two or three classes stronger. I would say in general that the machine often played plausible moves but the tiny program and modest hardware meant that it was really only a novice level machine. Even early Scysis machines like Sensor Chess (1982) and Companion II (1983) would have been somewhat stronger. The best 4K program would probably be the one that found it's way into the Mephisto Junior and Mephisto Mini products from the 1980's.
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