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Mephisto was a line of chess computers sold by Hegener & Glaser (H+G). In addition to integrated travel and sensory computers, they also sold a line of modular electronic autosensory boards (Modular, Exclusive, München, and Bavaria) which could accept different program, processor, and display modules.
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When Mephisto was shown at the Paris Exposition of 1889 it was operated by Jean Taubenhaus. After 1889 it was dismantled and its subsequent whereabouts are unknown. Mephisto was later used as the name of a top-line dedicated chess computer which won the World Microcomputer Chess Championship in the years 1985-1990.
It's some crazy, end-of-USSR times soviet clone of Mephisto with original Western made chip. Probably production of some small soviet cooperative, who bought lot of (possibly already obsolete at that moment) Mephisto chips for peanuts un turned them into chess computers for soviet market. Those products were NOT called Mephisto.
The International Computer Chess Association is founded by chess programmers to organize computer chess championships and report on research and advancements on computer chess in their journal. Also that year, Applied Concepts released Boris , a dedicated chess computer in a wooden box with plastic chess pieces and a folding board.
1980s – Running on a TRS-80, Apple II, and inside of Mephisto brand dedicated chess computers, it won the Dutch open computer chess championship four times. 1991 – Ported to the ARM ChessMachine and named Gideon, it won the World Microcomputer Chess Championship.
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SciSys Chess Companion II (1983) In 1987, Saitek developed the Pocket Plus in collaboration with Garry Kasparov. Saitek (originally called SciSys until 1987) was founded in 1979 by Swiss technologist Eric Winkler as a manufacturer of electronic chess games. By the 1990s the company had distribution and design offices in the United States ...