MERCEDES-BENZ, commonly referred to as Mercedes, is a German automotive brand. The company was founded by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler. Mercedes A.G. is a subsidiary of Daimler A.G. Like many companies, Mercedes offered corporate gadgets as gifts under various forms (branded under their name and logo), and because of the German people's interest for chess, chess board games (manufactured by others or exceptionally designed and made in their own manufacture).
Detailed Museum records and historical inventory records share this manufacturer room. When an original inventory entry matches a detailed record, the detailed Museum record is canonical.
The three distinct Mercedes-Benz chess-computer prototypes are confirmed as physical specimens in the ChessEval Collection. Other Mercedes-Benz chess objects remain catalogued separately by object type.
ChessEval preserves all three distinct 1988 Mercedes-Benz dedicated chess-computer prototypes. They share a high-gloss wooden-board design but differ in construction, electronics, circuit boards and Hegener & Glaser modules.
Original source room: ChessEval Forum · Mercedes-Benz