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'''Tom Fürstenberg''',<br/>
a Dutch computer chess expert, retired chess and computer chess salesman, formerly representing [[Fidelity Electronics]]. With his close friend [[David Bronstein]], Tom Fürstenberg is co-author of ''[[#TheSorcerersApprentice|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Wikipedia] about the poem by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe Goethe]</ref> <ref>[http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-chess-books-ever.html Best chess books ever] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar Susan Polgar's] [http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/ Chess Daily Mews and Information]</ref>. Tom Fürstenberg participated at [[Aegon Tournaments]] on both sides, operating [[Fidelity]] computers <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=50 CSVN Aegon 1991 site]</ref>, as well as playing the [[Aegon 1997]] on the human side <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=50 CSVN Aegon 1997 site]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:FurstenbergKarpovDeGorter.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.csvnsupplementsite.nl/CSVNPAGINA2.html]]
Tom Fürstenberg between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov Anatoly Karpov] and [[Cock de Gorter]], 1985 <ref>[http://www.csvnsupplementsite.nl/CSVNPAGINA2.html Computerschaak pagina 2] (Dutch) Redactie: J. ten Have and Drs. S. Kooi</ref>
[[FILE:TomFurstenbergDavidBronsteinAegon1991.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://users.skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg.html]]
Tom Fürstenberg and [[David Bronstein]], [[Aegon 1991]] <ref>Photo from his former page skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg - [[David Bronstein]] and myself at the AEGON Human v. Computer tournament in Den Haag, 1991</ref>
=Quotes=
by Tom Fürstenberg <ref>Quotes by Tom Fürstenberg from his former page skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg</ref>:
At the end of the 70's I got very interested in computer chess and chess computers and in 1977 I bought the first chess computer that became available commercially. I traveled a lot from one such tournament to another and made many new friends and in 1986 I actually started a business selling chess computers. We were selling a lot of computers but not really making any profit. When I started investigating closely, I found out that my only employee had been stealing computers from me and was selling them for his own benefit. I fired him on the spot in 1992 and a legal battle started which I finally won end of 1998. We settled for half what he was condemned to pay. It was just enough to cover my legal fees but for it had become a matter of principle.
As I had no longer the possibility to give adequate after-sales-service without my technical man and as the market became saturated anyway, I discontinued selling chess computers. I now only sell chess playing programs and chess database programs for the [[IBM PC|PC]] by mail order. The main advantage is that floppies and CD-ROMs don’t require any after-sales service and if there is something wrong a simple exchange will cure that.
=Publications=
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1980'''). ''The First World Microcomputer Championship''. Chess, December 1980 » [[WMCCC 1980]] <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive.html Publication Archive] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1981'''). ''2e Micro WK Travemünde/Hamburg''. [[Computerschaak]], 11-1981 (Dutch) » [[WMCCC 1981]] <ref>[http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/09-1981,%202.%20Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft%20in%20Travemunde%20und%20Hamburg.pdf 09-1981, 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft in Travemünde und Hamburg] (pdf) hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]]</ref>
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1984'''). ''Micro Chess Computers''. [[ICGA Journal#7_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3]]
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1985'''). ''Micro Chess Computers (Part 2)''. [[ICGA Journal#8_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1]]
* [[Frederic Friedel]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://www.schachcomputer.at/fid10.htm Elektronischer Sekundant ein Fidelity-Computer bei der Schach-WM in New-York]''. [[Computerschach und Spiele]] 6/90, (German)
* <span id="TheSorcerersApprentice"></span> [[David Bronstein]], [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1995'''). ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''. Cadogan Books, London. ISBN 1-85744-151-6 <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Apprentice-Cadogan-Chess-Books/dp/1857441516 Sorcerer's Apprentice (Cadogan Chess Books) from amazon.com]</ref>
: [[FILE:TheSorcerersApprentice.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=https://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Apprentice-Cadogan-Chess-Books/dp/1857441516]]
: In 1954 I met Grandmaster Bronstein for the first time in person when he came to Amsterdam with the Soviet team to play in the Olympiad. Little could I foresee then that he would become one of my best friends and that I would write a book about him. I found the title The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, David being the Sorcerer (on the chessboard) and the reader his Apprentice. As I had never written a book before, let alone a chess book, I structured in a way that I felt would show every aspect of David Bronstein's chess. When I asked his wife Tatiana Boleslavskaya (daughter of the famous Grandmaster [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Boleslavsky Isaac Boleslavsky] from Minsk, Belarus) to contribute, she wrote a chapter in the form of a moving testimonial about her husband.
=External Links=
* [https://www.facebook.com/tom.furstenberg Tom Furstenberg | Facebook]
=References=
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'''Tom Fürstenberg''',<br/>
a Dutch computer chess expert, retired chess and computer chess salesman, formerly representing [[Fidelity Electronics]]. With his close friend [[David Bronstein]], Tom Fürstenberg is co-author of ''[[#TheSorcerersApprentice|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Wikipedia] about the poem by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe Goethe]</ref> <ref>[http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-chess-books-ever.html Best chess books ever] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar Susan Polgar's] [http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/ Chess Daily Mews and Information]</ref>. Tom Fürstenberg participated at [[Aegon Tournaments]] on both sides, operating [[Fidelity]] computers <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=50 CSVN Aegon 1991 site]</ref>, as well as playing the [[Aegon 1997]] on the human side <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=50 CSVN Aegon 1997 site]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:FurstenbergKarpovDeGorter.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.csvnsupplementsite.nl/CSVNPAGINA2.html]]
Tom Fürstenberg between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov Anatoly Karpov] and [[Cock de Gorter]], 1985 <ref>[http://www.csvnsupplementsite.nl/CSVNPAGINA2.html Computerschaak pagina 2] (Dutch) Redactie: J. ten Have and Drs. S. Kooi</ref>
[[FILE:TomFurstenbergDavidBronsteinAegon1991.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://users.skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg.html]]
Tom Fürstenberg and [[David Bronstein]], [[Aegon 1991]] <ref>Photo from his former page skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg - [[David Bronstein]] and myself at the AEGON Human v. Computer tournament in Den Haag, 1991</ref>
=Quotes=
by Tom Fürstenberg <ref>Quotes by Tom Fürstenberg from his former page skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg</ref>:
At the end of the 70's I got very interested in computer chess and chess computers and in 1977 I bought the first chess computer that became available commercially. I traveled a lot from one such tournament to another and made many new friends and in 1986 I actually started a business selling chess computers. We were selling a lot of computers but not really making any profit. When I started investigating closely, I found out that my only employee had been stealing computers from me and was selling them for his own benefit. I fired him on the spot in 1992 and a legal battle started which I finally won end of 1998. We settled for half what he was condemned to pay. It was just enough to cover my legal fees but for it had become a matter of principle.
As I had no longer the possibility to give adequate after-sales-service without my technical man and as the market became saturated anyway, I discontinued selling chess computers. I now only sell chess playing programs and chess database programs for the [[IBM PC|PC]] by mail order. The main advantage is that floppies and CD-ROMs don’t require any after-sales service and if there is something wrong a simple exchange will cure that.
=Publications=
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1980'''). ''The First World Microcomputer Championship''. Chess, December 1980 » [[WMCCC 1980]] <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive.html Publication Archive] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1981'''). ''2e Micro WK Travemünde/Hamburg''. [[Computerschaak]], 11-1981 (Dutch) » [[WMCCC 1981]] <ref>[http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/09-1981,%202.%20Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft%20in%20Travemunde%20und%20Hamburg.pdf 09-1981, 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft in Travemünde und Hamburg] (pdf) hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]]</ref>
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1984'''). ''Micro Chess Computers''. [[ICGA Journal#7_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3]]
* [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1985'''). ''Micro Chess Computers (Part 2)''. [[ICGA Journal#8_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1]]
* [[Frederic Friedel]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://www.schachcomputer.at/fid10.htm Elektronischer Sekundant ein Fidelity-Computer bei der Schach-WM in New-York]''. [[Computerschach und Spiele]] 6/90, (German)
* <span id="TheSorcerersApprentice"></span> [[David Bronstein]], [[Tom Fürstenberg]] ('''1995'''). ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''. Cadogan Books, London. ISBN 1-85744-151-6 <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Apprentice-Cadogan-Chess-Books/dp/1857441516 Sorcerer's Apprentice (Cadogan Chess Books) from amazon.com]</ref>
: [[FILE:TheSorcerersApprentice.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=https://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Apprentice-Cadogan-Chess-Books/dp/1857441516]]
: In 1954 I met Grandmaster Bronstein for the first time in person when he came to Amsterdam with the Soviet team to play in the Olympiad. Little could I foresee then that he would become one of my best friends and that I would write a book about him. I found the title The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, David being the Sorcerer (on the chessboard) and the reader his Apprentice. As I had never written a book before, let alone a chess book, I structured in a way that I felt would show every aspect of David Bronstein's chess. When I asked his wife Tatiana Boleslavskaya (daughter of the famous Grandmaster [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Boleslavsky Isaac Boleslavsky] from Minsk, Belarus) to contribute, she wrote a chapter in the form of a moving testimonial about her husband.
=External Links=
* [https://www.facebook.com/tom.furstenberg Tom Furstenberg | Facebook]
=References=
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