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Excalibur Phantom Force, a talking robot type dedicated chess computer by Excalibur Electronics, released in 2007. The computer features a X-Y plotter type actuator with motor driven leadscrews and solenoid able to pick up and move the magnetic pieces, a sensory board, LCD, and a control button panel. It has 6502 compatible Sunplus GPLB32A controller running at 5 MHz with integrated 512 kibi ROM, 1216 byte RAM, parallel I/O, UART, PWM/DAC for sound and speech synthesis, and LCD controller. The Ron Nelson program is a 6502 port of his H8 programs, removing attack maps with respect to available RAM, similar to the earlier Alexandra The Great and Ivan II The Conqueror.

=See also=
 * Alexandra The Great
 * Excalibur Grandmaster
 * Excalibur Igor
 * Excalibur Mirage
 * Fidelity Phantom
 * Ivan The Terrible
 * Ivan II The Conqueror
 * Milton Bradley Phantom

=Manual=
 * Excalibur 740D Phantom Force Electronic Chess Set User Manual

=Forum Posts=
 * Excalibur Phantom Force - Steve B by Bryan Whitby, Hiarcs Forum, September 20, 2007
 * Ron Nelson & Talking Chess Computers by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, January 02, 2016
 * Chess Products Ron Nelson designed/programmed by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, January 11, 2016
 * Excalibur Phantom Force self moving chess robot by JohnW, CCC, February 28, 2020

=External Links=

Chess Computer

 * Excalibur Phantom Force by Tom Luif
 * Excalibur Phantom Force - Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * Excalibur Electronic Chess Computer Collection, The Spacious Mind
 * Excalibur Phantom Force self moving chess robot - Gadgetify, February 28, 2020, YouTube Video

Misc

 * Excalibur - Wiktionary
 * Excalibur from Wikipedia
 * phantom - Wiktionary
 * Phantom from Wikipedia
 * force - Wiktionary
 * Force (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Force from Wikipedia

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