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Elite (Fidelity Elite), a family of dedicated chess computers manufactured by Sidney Samole's company Fidelity Electronics with programs by Dan and Kathe Spracklen. The Fidelity Elite Champion was the first Elite which was the market version of Fidelity X, the 6502 based computer with a Sargon program which won the WMCCC 1981 in Travemünde. Its successors, the Elite Auto Sensory and Elite X became World Microcomputer Chess Champion at the WMCCC 1983 in Budapest and at the WMCCC 1984 in Glasgow (shared) respectively.

=Multiprocessor= The Elite Avant Garde V5 in 1989 was the first commercial multiprocessor version running on two 68000, the later Elite Avant Garde V8 had two 68020. As explained by the programmers in the Addendum of the Instruction Manual, the parallel search algorithms used was Principal Variation Splitting as introduced by Tony Marsland and Murray Campbell.

=Karpov's Second= The Elite Avant Garde V10 with a Motorola 68040 processor was used as second for Anatoly Karpov during the 1990 World Chess Championship versus Garry Kasparov in New York and Lyon, supplied and operated by Fidelity representative Tom Fürstenberg.

=Photos & Games= Tom Fürstenberg operating Elite Avant Garde V10 and David Bronstein, Aegon 1991 [Event "6th AEGON man-mach"] [Site "The Hague NED"] [Date "1991.05.29"] [Round "06"] [White "David Bronstein"] [Black "Elite Avant Garde V10"] [Result "1-0"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Be7 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nxe4 6.Ne5 Ng5 7.d4 d6 8.Nd3 f3 9.Be3 Bg4 10.Kd2 fxg2 11.Qxg4 gxh1=Q 12.Rxh1 c6 13.Re1 h6 14.d5 Qd7 15.Qg3 Qf5 16.Nf4 cxd5 17.Bxd5 Nc6 18.Qg2 Rc8 19.Rf1 Nb4 20.Bb3 Qd7 21.a3 d5 22.Bd4 Nc6 23.Bg1 d4 24.Ncd5 d3 25.Nxd3 Na5 26.Ba2 b6 27.h4 Ne6 28.Ne5 Qa4 29.Kc1 Qxh4 30.Nxf7 O-O 31.Qg6 Bg5+ 32.Kb1 Qh3 33.Rf6 Rce8 34.b4 Qh1 35.Rf1 Nc6 36.Bc4 Qh3 37.Bd3 Qxf1+ 38.Bxf1 Rxf7 39.Bd3 Nf8 40.Qxc6 Re1+ 41.Ka2 Rxg1 42.Nc3 Kh8 43.Qe8 Rf2 44.Ne4 Rf3 45.Nd6 Rf6 46.Nf7+ Kg8 47.Bc4 b5 48.Qxb5 Rxf7 49.Qf5 Bf6 50.Qd5 Kh7 51.Qxf7 1-0

=See also=
 * Chess Challenger
 * Elegance
 * Excel
 * Excellence
 * Fidelity
 * Fidelity Electronics
 * Private Line

=Elite Computers=

=Publications=
 * Tony Harrington (1984). An elitist game. Personal Computer World, September 1984
 * Danny Kopec (1985). Chess Computers - A critical descriptive Analysis of the currently available commercial Chess Computers. Abacus Vol. 2 No. 4, Editor-shortened version as pdf, pdf » Super Constellation
 * Frederic Friedel (1990). Elektronischer Sekundant ein Fidelity-Computer bei der Schach-WM in New-York. Computerschach und Spiele 6/90 (German)

=Forum Posts=
 * The first commercial multi-processor chess computer by Mike Watters, Hiarcs Forum, November 08, 2019

=External Links=

Chess Computer

 * Fidelity Elite A/S Glasgow 6.55Mhz from Schachcomputer | elpeon.com » Peter Reckwitz
 * Fidelity Elite Avant Garde v.5 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
 * Elite Auto Sensory's ICGA Tournaments
 * Fidelity's ICGA Tournaments

Misc

 * Elite (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Avant-garde from Wikipedia

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