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=Bobby Fischer calling=
[[Steve Chafitz]] on a call from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer Bobby Fischer] <ref>[httphttps://www.eendusa.com/e-End] former historysite</ref> <ref>[https://www.php eendusa.com/indusry-news/old-story-brings-back-old-memories?rq=Bobby%20Fischer Industry and Security News - Old news story brings back old memories for e-End – Secure Electronic Data Destruction End’s CEO and Computer Electronics Recycling, Frederick MDPresident]</ref>:
Just to rewind a bit, one evening when I was home having dinner, I got a call from Bobby Fischer. He was excited about our electronic chess game "Boris" and I realized that if he was interested in our electronic chess game that there was a major market out there. We increased our development of electronic games and yes, we hired the brightest and the best programmers in the country to develop programs for our games.
The name of the computer was likely in dependence on the given name of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky Boris Spassky], who lost the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1972 Chess World Championship 1972] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer Bobby Fischer] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjavik Reykjavik].
* [http://www.seanriddle.com/f8.html Other F8 games - Boris Diplomat] by [[Sean Riddle]] - playable in [http://www.mess.org/ MESS]
* [http://chesseval.com/ChessEvalJournal/ANDROID/ChessEvalJournal.htm Directly coming from the 21st Century: the Boris HANDroid] by [[Rob van Son]], [http://www.chesseval.com/index.html ChessEval], February 2014
* [https://www.eendusa.com/indusry-news/old-story-brings-back-old-memories?rq=Bobby%20Fischer Industry and Security News - Old news story brings back old memories for e-End’s CEO and President]
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