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X-RARE 1981

Fidelity Elite Champion eXperimental (Program X Travemunde) - 090 (1981) X-RARE.

5 publicly viewable images · original collector’s comments preserved.

Specimen and documentation

Fidelity Elite Champion Program X, serial 090

A numbered Elite Champion documented in the collection as a Program X machine upgraded for tournament-level operation.

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The collection documents this specimen’s association with the Program X tournament configuration. ROM contents, clock frequency and the number of surviving upgraded examples have not been independently re-established in this review. The retail serial number alone does not establish that this particular unit played in the championship.

Elite Champion serial 090 in its fitted carrying case.
Elite Champion serial 090 in its fitted carrying case.
ItemInformationSource or verification status
Serial number090Fidelity manufacturer certificate held in the collection archive
Program identificationProgram X; Dan and Kathe SpracklenCollector’s documentation
Recorded hardware6502C; approximately 5–5.2 MHz; 24 KB ROM; 16 KB RAMCollector’s note; not newly measured
Modification historyUpgrade attributed to Wilfried BuckeCollector’s documentation; technical verification remains open

Sources: the supplied collection photographs, preserved manufacturer documentation and the collector’s original dated record. The original comments are retained below.

Technical sources and tournament history

Reviewed additions are separate from the original collector’s dated notes below or above. Program history is not proof that this physical specimen competed.

Original collector’s notes.

CHVL2021-09-02 09:24:04

This is one of the rare Champion Elite (2 according to Wikipedia, in fact, there are 3) with the original program X and the hardware modifications of the the World Machine (WM) Tournament Winner of the World Championship.

Its history is described by Veldhuis: https://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_vel ... grade).pdf

The computer is part of the ChessEval Collection since many years now.

Specs:

- program: Dan and Kathe Spracklen

- release: September 1981

- upgraded by Wilfried Bucke to the Tournament Machine

- microprocessor: 6502C

- clock: 5 ~ 5,2 MHz

- ROM: 24 KB

- RAM: 16 KB

- Elo: 1700

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Photographs and documentation.

5 publicly viewable images from this collection record.

Closed EPROM cases with the handwritten Elite No. 90, 1981 note.
Closed EPROM cases with the handwritten Elite No. 90, 1981 note.
Board, chess pieces and engraved Elite Champion front plaque.
Board, chess pieces and engraved Elite Champion front plaque.
EPROM chips in open protective cases beside the Elite Champion control panel.
EPROM chips in open protective cases beside the Elite Champion control panel.
Underside of Elite Champion serial 090 with its identification and championship labels.
Underside of Elite Champion serial 090 with its identification and championship labels.
Elite Champion serial 090 in its fitted carrying case.
Elite Champion serial 090 in its fitted carrying case.
Original ChessEval documentation

Fidelity Program X Travemunde #090

Original ChessEval Program X #090 page.

Historical media recovered for this source page: 12 of 12 referenced files.

Open historical documentation