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Chess Champion Pocket Chess, (Chess Traveler) a dedicated travel chess computer by SciSys and identical by Novag, first released in 1980, also licensed by other vendors under various brand names, such as Acetronic Chess Traveller, Prinztronic Chess Traveller, Ingersoll Chess Traveler and Tandy Computerized Chess. The Chess Champion Pocket Chess has a four digit 7-segment LED display, a small pegboard without sensors, and a keypad to enter moves. The Intercontinental Traveler, released in 1982 by SciSys and Novag as well, had an LCD.

=The Program= The Philidor Software program, written by Mike Johnson under assistance of David Levy, ran under a Fairchild F8 3850/3851 compatible 3870 controller using 2 KiB of ROM and comfortable 320 Bytes of RAM, since the internal 64 bytes of the 3870 were expanded by an external 256x8 static RAM chip. Thanks to Sean Riddle, the Acetronic Chess Traveller is playable under the Multi Emulator Super System MESS.

=See also=
 * Boris
 * Chess Champion MK I
 * Chess Partner 2000
 * CompuChess
 * Novag Micro Chess
 * SciSys Mini Chess
 * SABA Videoplay 20

=Publications=
 * Hans-Peter Ketterling (1981). Computer auf dem Vormarsch - VI Teil. Europa-Rochade, 04-1981, in Novag & SciSys – Chess Champion Pocket Chess, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (Dutch and German)

=External Links=

SciSys

 * Chess Champion Pocket Chess from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
 * Chess Champion Pocket Chess by Tom Luif
 * SciSys Chess Champion Pocket Chess from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * SciSys Intercontinental Traveler from The Spacious Mind
 * SciSys Intercontinental Traveler from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)

Novag

 * Novag Chess Champion Pocket Chess by Tom Luif
 * Novag Chess Champion Pocket Chess from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)

Acetronic

 * Acetronic Chess Traveller by Tom Luif
 * Acetronic - Chess Traveller
 * Other F8 games - Acetronic Chess Traveler by Sean Riddle - playable in MESS

Prinztronic

 * Prinztronic Chess Traveller from The Spacious Mind
 * Prinztronic Chess Traveller from Retrogames

Tandy

 * Tandy Computerized Chess from The Spacious Mind
 * Tandy Computerized Chess from ChessBin.com by Adam Berent
 * Tandy Computerized Chess by Tom Luif

=References=

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