Ephraim Kishon

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Ephraim Kishon, (August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was an Hungarian born, Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He spent most of his youth in labour camps and in various hiding-places in fear of the Nazis. In 1944, Kishon was deported to Jolsva, a labour camp in Slovakia but together with a friend he managed to escape. In the camp he worked as a secretary for the district commandant. He got his job only because of the fact that he was an excellent chess player and the Nazi commander wanted to play with him .

Kishon was a life-long chess enthusiast, and took an early interest in chess-playing computers. In 1990, German chess computer manufacturer Hegener & Glaser along with its affiliate at that time, Fidelity Electronics , produced the Kishon Chesster , a dedicated chess computer with a program by Dan and Kathe Spracklen, distinguished by the spoken comments of Kishon .

=Selected Publications=
 * Ephraim Kishon (1979). Compushvili. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 76
 * Ephraim Kishon, Helmut Pfleger, Ossi Weiner (1993). Der Schachcomputer: Gegner und Freund. Ullstein (German)
 * Ephraim Kishon, Helmut Pfleger, Ossi Weiner (1998). Der Schachcomputer: Gegner und Freund. Nymphenburger Verlag

=See also=
 * WCCC 1986 Video

=External Links=
 * Ephraim Kishon from Wikipedia
 * Ephraim Kishon's web pages
 * Ephraim Kishon - Photographien


 * Ephraim Kishon, 1924 – 2005, Obituary by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase, February 04, 2005
 * Fidelity Kishon Chesster Challenger Electronic Chess Computer, The Spacious Mind
 * Kishon Chesster, Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)

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