Author: Alan Grotier
Date: 05:39:43 08/16/05
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On August 16, 2005 at 08:25:47, Steve B wrote:
>for the collector ,obtaining all of the Dedicated Chess computers that won the
>World Micro Computer Chess Championships is a laudable goal
>
>indeed no collection could be considered World Class without this goal being
>acheived
>
>perhaps the hardest year to acquire is 1984 which was held in Glasgow Scotland
>
>that year ,first place was a four way tie between 3 dedicated computers and a PC
>program
>
>Fidelity,Conchess and Mephisto were the dedicated computer winners with an early
>version of Langs Cyrus chess as the PC program
>Langs program then went on to be incorporated into several dedicated units after
>its co-win
>
>of the four co-winners the hardest computer to find is the Mephisto.
>called the Glasgow "S" module, it of course can be used in all of their standard
>boards(Modular,Exclusive and Munchen)
>
>rated 1800 Elo and programmed by Nitsche it ran on a 68000 16 bit processor at
>12 Mhz
>
>the Rare Mephisto Glasgow "S":
>
>
>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=5b5f&.dnm=b289.jpg&.src=ph
>
>
>Regards From Scotland
> Steve,
Very interesting.But I seem to remember
it was the Mephisto Amsterdam that really
shook-up the dedicated world by beating every
similar machine at that time.
Is this unit more easy to find than the
Glasgow? If so why?
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