Author: Chris Kantack
Date: 08:46:35 12/06/03
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On December 06, 2003 at 05:35:18, bryan whitby wrote: >Thanks Chris >Excellent review. >Regards from England >Bryan > >PS....As you obviously have links with Excalibur, how about an interview on your >site with Ron Nelson. >Ron programmed the very first Fidelity Chess Challenger and I think that he >still works for Excalibur. He never gets a mention anywhere in computer chess >history. >Ask he about the time that two Fidelity chess computers met in a past World >Microcomputer Chess Championships and one of the operator resigned in a winning >position to let the other Fidelity machine (who had more points) get the full >point !! Yes. Ron Nelson not only still works for Excalibur but he is the designer and programmer for all of Excalibur's chess computer products. I correspond with him frequently, Ron is still actively planning and designing additional new and revised products for the coming years. I am happy to say that Ron Nelson has been mentioned recently in "chess history". In the October 2003 issue of "Chess Life" (page 7) in episode 10 of "chess history" there is quote from Sid Samole: "Commander Spock was playing chess against the computer. There it was, the answer to my quest for the perfect chess opponent. I could not get it out of my mind. The next morning I mentioned it to my secretary, Marilyn. She replied that her boyfriend, Ron Nelson, an engineer at Zenith Radio, was a computer hobbyist and electronic engineer who might be able to build such a device." Regards, Chris Kantack http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm
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