Author: Steve B
Date: 18:44:12 06/08/05
No collection can be considered World Class without the Famous Prestige Chess Challenger most of the worlds top collectors either have one.. or want one some collectors even have more then one only about 1000 were made in total but an exact number is hard to come by released in 1982 by Fidelity it was programmed by the now divorced Spracklen husband and wife team it went through several program upgrades the two principal ones being the Glasgow and Budapest World Champion programs rated at about 1700 Elo it was a full tournament sized auto sensory wooden board it was similar in apperance to the ARB board but unlike the ARB it had had one display window perhaps the most desired aspect of the Prestige was its piece set an original set of Prestige pieces is a collectors item in its own right and many will pay a very high price just for the original pieces and use them with other chess computers indeed i know of one former collector who sold all of his chess computers but kept the Prestige pieces and uses them to this very day a as normal chess set personally i consider the Prestige pieces the most beautiful chess pieces ever released for a chess computer very few chess computers were made with this high level of quality and craftsmanship the Prestige Chess Challenger no.129 shown here with the wooden thermal Printer: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=9c28.jpg&.src=ph the magnificent Prestige Piece set: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=5245.jpg&.src=ph Admiring Regards Steve
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