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Schachcomputer SC 1, VEB Funkwerk Erfurt's first dedicated chess computer species from 1981, build in low quantities of only about 12 to 20 pieces. The SC 1 was merely a prototype kind of a chess computer, to test the performance of their own Z80 clone, the U880 8-bit processor. The program wasn't yet an own development, but a program from the "Enemy of the people", a plain copy of Ron Nelson's program of a Chess Challenger manufactured by Fidelity Electronics. Remarkably, its successor, the SC 2, which was produced in higher quantities and exported to the capitalistic "First World" to merit foreign exchanges, still was a slightly modified Ron Nelson program.

=See also=
 * SC 2
 * Chess-Master

=Publications=
 * Karsten Bauermeister (1999). Deutsch-Deutsche Geschichte(n). Computerschach und Spiele. No. 5, October-November 1999, pp 32-33 (German)
 * Ingo Althöfer (2020). Computer Chess and Chess Computers in East Germany. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3

=External Links=
 * VEB Erfurt SC-1 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
 * SC1, Schachcomputer in der DDR from Wikipedia.de (German)
 * SC 1 from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt - Alles nur geklaut from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)

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