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Excalibur Electronics, Inc., (since 2009 EB Excalibur) an American electronics company and manufacturer of dedicated chess computers and other handheld electronic games, located in Miami, Florida, founded in 1992 by Shane Samole, son of Fidelity's founder Sidney Samole, along with former Fidelity sales manager Terry Everett. Excalibur first started by importing chess games from Eric White, but soon former Fidelity director Ron Nelson continued computer chess engineering, as well as chess programming in Shane's company , and became engineering vice president for Excalibur Electronics. In 2009, Excalibur Electronics, Inc. was merged into Cortec's affiliate EB Brands, LLC  in an internal reorganization as EB Excalibur .

=People=
 * Terry Everett
 * Larry Kaufman
 * Ron Nelson
 * Shane Samole
 * Sidney Samole
 * Eric White

=Selected Chess Computers=
 * Alexandra The Great
 * Excalibur Grandmaster
 * Excalibur Igor
 * Excalibur King Arthur
 * Excalibur LCD Chess
 * Excalibur Mirage
 * Excalibur Phantom Force
 * Ivan The Terrible
 * Ivan II The Conqueror

=World Chess Hall of Fame= In the late 1990s, Sidney Samole proposed to move the World Chess Hall of Fame from New Windsor, New York to Miami, where it would be located in a rook-shaped building constructed by Excalibur. Although Samole died in 2000, the U.S. Chess Trust accepted the proposal the following year, renamed World Chess Hall of Fame and Sidney Samole Museum, until it closed in 2009, the World Chess Hall of Fame reopened in St. Louis in 2011.

=See also=
 * Fidelity Electronics
 * CXG Newcrest Technology

=Publications=
 * Larry Kaufman (1992). Excalibur Electronics. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 5
 * Detlef Pordzik (2002). Ein Brettcomputer im Königsformat - Der Excalibur Grandmaster. ChessBits, No. 19 (German), hosted by Schachversand Niggemann

=Forum Posts=

2008 ...

 * On Female Chess Computers by Steve Blincoe, CCC, November 08, 2008
 * New Excalibur Einstein Chess Computers by Bryan Whitby, CCC, November 15, 2008
 * Excalibur is simply re-housing everything... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, November 22, 2008
 * Avenger by Excalibur...a Shame by Fernando Villegas, CCC, August 11, 2009
 * Breaking News:The Real Strenght of Grandmaster by Excalibur by Fernando Villegas, CCC, September 06, 2009 » Excalibur Grandmaster
 * Excalibur Alive or Dead? by Bryan Whitby, Hiarcs Forum, December 05, 2009

2010 ...

 * Excalibur Avenger by Fernando Villegas, CCC, August 30, 2011
 * Karpov by Excalibur Precious Machine by Fernando Villegas, CCC, October 01, 2012
 * Ron Nelson Ever Copied, Used, Cloned the Spracklen? by Fernando Villegas, Hiarcs Forum, July 05, 2014
 * Re: Ron Nelson Ever Copied, Used, Cloned the Spracklen? by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 21, 2015
 * Excalibur Electronics by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 22, 2015 » ACM 1981, Belle's Attack Maps
 * Excalibur Electronics by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 22, 2015
 * Re: Excalibur Electronics by Mike Watters, Hiarcs Forum, December 23, 2015
 * Ron Nelson by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 23, 2015
 * Re: Ron Nelson by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 23, 2015
 * Re: Ron Nelson by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 24, 2015 » Excalibur Mirage, Eric White


 * Excalibur Chess Products Ron Nelson designed/programmed by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, January 05, 2016
 * Excalibur Collection by The Spacious Mind, Hiarcs Forum, March 13, 2017

=External Links=

Company

 * Excalibur Electronics from Wikipedia
 * Excalibur Electronics, Inc. - Electronics Industry Business Directory
 * Excalibur Electronics | Board Game Publisher | BoardGameGeek
 * EB Excalibur Completes Acquisition of Certain Assets of Excalibur Electronics – Sawaya Partners., LLC, July 7, 2009

World Chess Hall of Fame

 * World Chess Hall of Fame - Wikipedia
 * Chess Hall of Fame, YouTube Video

Chess Computers

 * Excalibur Electronic Chess Computer Collection, The Spacious Mind
 * Excalibur by Tom Luif
 * Excalibur - Schachcomputer.info Wiki

Misc

 * Excalibur - Wiktionary
 * Excalibur from Wikipedia
 * Excalibur (disambiguation) from Wikipedia

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