Author: steven blincoe
Date: 05:34:44 07/15/04
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>As far as commercial programs, the Spracklin's Fidelity Chess Challenger and >Boris were the two I remember first. I'm not sure who programmed Boris. the first dedicated chess computer was programmed by Ron Nelson,who is the progammer for Excalibur's current line of chess computers.. he actually invented the first dedicated unit and was involved with the hardware as well as the chess program he also pioneered the use of the voice chip (and motion detectors )in use in many chess computers to this very day the Spracklin's started with Applied Concepts and stayed with them through the Sargon 2.5 release..then switched to Fidelity Steve
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