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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner...Received a Fidelity Elite Avant Garde today

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 15:20:15 06/21/05

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On June 21, 2005 at 18:17:46, Dick Schneiders wrote:

>The Fidelity Elite Avant Garde, model number 6081, arrived today.  It is in
>beautiful condition and seems to work perfectly.  I like the dual displays and
>the large pieces.
>
>Why is this model known as the EAG Mobile Master?


IIRC, the program debuted in a tournament in Mobile Alabama, playing a few
impressive games.


>It certainly isn't very
>mobile.
>
>The 6081 is designed to use additional modules.  Are these the same modules that
>my SC9 would use?  Since the 6081 was introduced in 1985 and the SC9 in 1982, it
>seems likely.  The manual lists the following modules: Book Openings I and II
>(models CB9 and CB16), 64 Greatest Games (model CG64), Tarrasch Defense (model
>TDF), and a 5 module set of chess openings (models EOA, EOB, EOC, EOD, and EOE).
> Were all of these modules in fact produced for sale?  How do I go about
>locating some of these?  :-)  They seem to be fairly rare.
>
>Anyway, this is very nice chess computer, especially for being 20 years old.
>
>Dick Schneiders



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