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Search all 1046 documentation records by manufacturer, model, year or rarity.
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Open Inventory917 physical specimens are currently registered in the physical-object layer, including 914 historical inventory entries and three confirmed Mercedes-Benz prototypes. Duplicates and variants belong in this registry; additional machines can be added without duplicating documentation pages.
Mercedes-Benz Prototype Series · all three preserved
Explore the seriesThree distinct 1988 dedicated chess-computer prototypes share a high-gloss wooden-board design while differing in construction, electronics, circuit boards and Hegener & Glaser modules.
How documentation and physical specimens fit together.
ChessEval Collection Museum is the maintained documentation system. Catalog records describe models, variants, families and historical entries. The Physical Inventory records individual machines, including duplicates. Manufacturer rooms and thematic sections remain documentation views.
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Dated collection notes, photographs and documentary sources in the current site.
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Rooms are shown by the amount of documentation currently available. Each room now combines the modern Museum records and the preserved original inventory.
Fidelity
FIDELITY ELECTRONICS LD. INC was an American company, founded in 1959, bought in March 1970 by Sidney and Myron Samole. From 1976, Fidelity Electronics developed and manufactured dedicated chess computers. On February 21, 1984, FIDELITY ELECTRONICS LD. INC fil…
70 Museum records134 original entries265 photos
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Hegener & Glaser
Hegener & Glaser was a German company founded by Manfred Hegener and Florian Glaser in 1969 in Munich. In 1980, they created the Mephisto trademark.In 1994, H&G was bought by Saitek Ltd.The Mephisto brand became a division of Saitek.
19 Museum records135 original entries114 photos
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Novag
NOVAG INDUSTRIES LTD. is a designer and manufacturer of dedicated chess computers founded on September 3 1976 by Peter Auge and Eric Winkler, located in Hong Kong. In 1978, Novag and SciSys started common operations to produce chess computers and notably the M…
10 Museum records129 original entries82 photos
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Saitek
SAITEK (originally called SciSys-W until 1987) was a Hong-Kong based company, founded by Eric Winkler in 1978. Eric Winkler was a Swiss technologist who co-founded Novag. During more than 2 decades, Scisys, then Saitek, produced chess computers from Hong-Kong.…
4 Museum records86 original entries10 photos
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Excalibur
EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS was founded in 1992 by Shane Samole. The company was sold to EB Electronics in 2009, and became EB Excalibur.
3 Museum records79 original entries4 photos
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CXG
CXG NEWCREST TECHNOLOGY LTD (CXG Systems). Original company was Cassia (founded in 1979), then White and Allcock (in 1981), becoming CXG Newcrest Technology Ltd in 1984, and replaced by National Telecommunications in 1991.
8 Museum records64 original entries413 photos
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SciSys
SciSys-W Ltd was a Hong-Kong based company, founded by Eric Winkler in 1978. The company was associated with Novag to develop new chess computers. However, Many problems occured between Peter Auge (Novag) and Eric Winkler: they stopped their collaboration afte…
6 Museum records49 original entries12 photos
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Applied Concepts
APPLIED CONCEPTS (dba Stalker Radar) was founded by Alan Mead in 1977. Their Chess Computer products were distributed by an American marketing/retail enterprise "Chafitz", and by a German manufacturer/distributor "Sandy Electronic".
10 Museum records30 original entries46 photos
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Acetronic 6 Museum · 15 original · 1 photosApplied Concepts 10 Museum · 30 original · 46 photosAudioSonic 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosBoots 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosCassia 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosCGL 1 Museum · 4 original · 0 photosChafitz 6 Museum · 0 original · 29 photosChess King 1 Museum · 5 original · 0 photosCLJ Industries 3 Museum · 0 original · 10 photosCommodore 1 Museum · 3 original · 0 photosConic 7 Museum · 3 original · 19 photosConsumenta 4 Museum · 8 original · 7 photosCT800 2 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosCXG 8 Museum · 64 original · 413 photosCyber Enterprises 1 Museum · 0 original · 14 photosData Cash Systems 2 Museum · 3 original · 6 photosDigital Game Technology (DGT) 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosDiscovery Channel 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosDrueke 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosEB Excalibur 1 Museum · 0 original · 6 photosEducational Insights 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosElectronika & Intellect & Nicevent & Mayak 7 Museum · 2 original · 29 photosExcalibur 3 Museum · 79 original · 4 photosFidelity 70 Museum · 134 original · 265 photosFrance Double R 7 Museum · 0 original · 12 photosGakken 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosGauselmann Group 1 Museum · 0 original · 1 photosGavon 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosHanimex 7 Museum · 7 original · 26 photosHegener & Glaser 19 Museum · 135 original · 114 photosiCore 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosImpos 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosIntelligent Software 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosJS&A 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosKrypton 0 Museum · 7 original · 0 photosLansay 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosLexibook 1 Museum · 14 original · 0 photosMattel 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosMercedes-Benz 8 Museum · 0 original · 38 photosMillenium 2000 1 Museum · 8 original · 0 photosMilton Bradley 3 Museum · 3 original · 22 photosNewcrest 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosNovag 10 Museum · 129 original · 82 photosPavilion 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosPeri 0 Museum · 3 original · 0 photosPewatronic 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosPhoenix Chess Systems 2 Museum · 5 original · 11 photosPrinztronic 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosRadica 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosRadio Shack 1 Museum · 36 original · 0 photosRexton 3 Museum · 0 original · 5 photosSaitek 4 Museum · 86 original · 10 photosSakar 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosSakkara 0 Museum · 6 original · 0 photosSandy Electronic 1 Museum · 0 original · 4 photosSchætzle-Bsteh 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosSciSys 6 Museum · 49 original · 12 photosSCS Direct 1 Museum · 0 original · 4 photosSharper Image 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosSoftware Products and Systems (SPS) 1 Museum · 0 original · 13 photosSplice/Byte 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosStadlBauer 1 Museum · 0 original · 3 photosSystema 2 Museum · 37 original · 0 photosTandy 1 Museum · 6 original · 0 photosTasc 7 Museum · 4 original · 46 photosTEC 1 Museum · 0 original · 4 photosTiger Electronics 5 Museum · 11 original · 43 photosTimorite 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosToytronic 1 Museum · 3 original · 0 photosTryom 1 Museum · 0 original · 2 photosUnimex 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosVEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt 10 Museum · 8 original · 46 photosVtech 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosWestminster 1 Museum · 0 original · 2 photosWesTrak 1 Museum · 0 original · 11 photosWhite & Allcock 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosYear Vantage Holdings Limited 0 Museum · 0 original · 0 photosYeno 2 Museum · 7 original · 20 photos
The historical website remains intact.
The Original ChessEval Website is no longer the maintained catalogue, but it remains available exactly as a historical source.
New technical documentation and historical games
Explore manufacturer manuals and program lineages, six tournaments with eleven selected games, and the source and date register.