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Mephisto Almeria, a set of dedicated chess computer modules by Hegener & Glaser released in 1988 for their Mephisto module systems. As further development of Richard Lang's Mephisto series and successor of Mephisto Roma, Mephisto Almeria won the fourth consecutive title for Richard Lang in charge of Mephisto - at the WMCCC 1988 in Almería, Spain, which were infact three separate titles, the World Micro Software Champion of fthe Software Group, where an experimental Almeria program played, the World Micro Manufacturers (Team) Champion of the Manufacturers Group, which was a duel of four Mephistos versus four Fidelitys including a multi-processor machine, and the Single-CPU World Microcomputer Chess Champion of the Commercial Group, with three programs competing. Short after, the tournament machine played the ACM 1988 as Mephisto X and became third with 2½/4 only losing from winner Deep Thought, a draw versus Cray Blitz, and wins versus AI Chess and Sun Phoenix. Almeria further won the First International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR 1989 in Moscow, and also played humans at Netherlands-vs-Computers-1989, the Aegon 1989, and the Aubervilliers Rapid Open 1989.

=Improvements= Despite small improvements in various game phases due to a tweaked search and evaluation, and an enhanced 60,000 ply opening book with 7,000 variations, Mephisto Almeria was the first released Lang program using a transposition table, in total up to 1 MiB of RAM.

=Versions= Three versions were built, a 68000 version, and beside the normal 68020, the limited edition Mephisto Almeria Tournament machines.

=Selected Games= WMCCC 1988 (Manufacturers), Round 6, Fidelity 3 - Mephisto 4 [Event "WMCCC 1988 (Manufacturers)"] [Site "Almeria, Spain"] [Date "1988.09.28"] [Round "6"] [White "Fidelity 3"] [Black "Mephisto 4"] [Result "0-1"]

1.a3 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.b3 Nc6 4.Bb2 d5 5.e3 Bg4 6.Bb5 e6 7.h3 Bh5 8.g4 Bg6 9.Ne5 Rc8 10.c4 Bd6 11.Nxg6 hxg6 12.g5 Nh5 13.cxd5 exd5 14.Rg1 d4 15.exd4 O-O 16.dxc5 Re8+ 17.Kf1 Bxc5 18.d4 Bxd4 19.Bxd4 Re4 20.Nc3 Rxd4 21.Qf3 Na5 22.Rb1 Rf4 23.Qe3 Rxc3 24.Qxc3 Qb6 25.Rg2 Qxb5+ 26.Kg1 Rf5 27.Qe3 Qd5 28.a4 Rf3 29.Qe8+ Kh7 30.Qb5 Qe4 31.Qf1 Nf4 32.Re1 Nxh3+ 33.Kh1 Qc6 34.Qb5 Nxf2+ 35.Kg1 Nh3+ 36.Kh2 Nf4 37.Qxc6 Rh3+ 38.Kg1 Nxc6 39.Rh2 Rxh2 40.Kxh2 Ne6 41.b4 Nxg5 42.Re8 Ne6 43.Ra8 Nxb4 44.Rxa7 Nc5 45.Ra5 Nbd3 46.Ra8 g5 47.Kg2 0-1

=See also=
 * Demonology
 * Mephisto Portorose
 * Mephisto Roma

=Publications=
 * Eric Hallsworth (1989). The New Mephisto Almeria. Computer Chess News Sheet 21, pp 3, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

=Forum Posts=
 * Almeria 32 bit(68020) by Steve Blincoe, CCC, October 24, 2003
 * FM Jonsson, Hans-Mephisto Almeria 68000 12 MHz, 1½-½ (Simul) by Lars Sandin, CCC, October 12, 2008

=External Links=
 * Mephisto's ICGA Tournaments (including Almeria)
 * Mephisto Almeria Turniermaschine from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
 * Module Almeria 16 Bit from The Spacious Mind
 * World Chess Computer Championship ALMERIA 1988 by Hans van Mierlo, ChessEval, February 2014
 * Mephisto Almeria 68000 from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * Mephisto Almeria 68020 from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * Mephisto TM Almeria from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * Mephisto Exclusive Almeria 16 bit from Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage by Kurt Kispert (German)

=References=

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