Author: steven blincoe
Date: 07:30:16 01/25/04
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hi Bob > >What do you suppose was the very first publicly >available dedicated chess-playing machine? I'm not asking about the >experimental vacuum tube machines but instead about the toys sold in stores. the Fidelity Chess Challenger was the very first dedicated chess computer ever released for sale it was released in the fall of 1977 it had one level and a mistaken reversal of the ranks and files the notational input system was therfore also in reverse Fidelity soon released a Chess Challenger 3 which corrected the error and offered 3 levels of play they also allowed all owners of the CC1 to upgrade to the corrected CC3 for a small fee very soon after the CC1 was released, several companies released dedicated units of their own a popular unit sold in the US at this time(1978) was a Novag computer sold under the name of JS&A Computer Chess this computer was made out of plastic and much smaller then the CC1 it cost $100 and was endorsed by the then World Champion Karpov Memory Lane Regards Steve
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