Chess Challenger Teardown. Fidelity Electronics Challenger Series Model BCC
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51Chess Challenger Teardown. Fidelity Electronics Challenger Series Model BCC
Chess Challenger, or Fidelity Chess Challenger,
was a series of dedicated chess computers produced and market by Fidelity Electronics. The Chess Challenger 1 was the first commercial chess computer of its kind in 1976, invented by Sidney Samole, with a program by Ron Nelson, developed for an Altair 8800 Microcomputer with an Intel 8080 CPU. Further versions of Nelson's program run on a more advanced Z80 CPU, great commercial success was the Chess Challenger 7 [2] in 1979. Ed English, an early game programmer affiliated with Fidelity Electronics in 1979/80, improved the alpha-beta implementation to double the playing speed [3].
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