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a family of [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computers]] manufactured by [[Sidney Samole|Sidney Samole's]] company [[Fidelity Electronics]] with programs by [[Dan Spracklen|Dan]] and [[Kathe Spracklen]]. The ''Fidelity Elite Champion'' was the first Elite which was the market version of [[Fidelity|Fidelity X]], the [[6502]] based computer with a [[Sargon]] program which won the [[WMCCC 1981]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travem%C3%BCnde Travemünde]. Its successors, the ''Elite Auto Sensory'' and ''Elite X'' became [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship|World Microcomputer Chess Champion]] at the [[WMCCC 1983]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest Budapest] and at the [[WMCCC 1984]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow] (shared) respectively.
=Multiprocessor=
The ''Elite Avant Garde V5'' in 1989 was the first commercial multiprocessor version <ref>[https://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9756 The first commercial multi-processor chess computer] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], November 08, 2019</ref> 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 <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fidelity_elite_avant_garde__v_5.html Fidelity Elite Avant Garde v.5] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]], see Addendum with a letter from the programmers</ref>, the [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] algorithms used was [[Parallel Search#PrincipalVariationSplitting|Principal Variation Splitting]] as introduced by [[Tony Marsland]] and [[Murray Campbell]] <ref>[[Tony Marsland]], [[Murray Campbell]] ('''1981'''). ''Parallel Search of Strongly Ordered Game Trees''. Technical Report TR 81-9, Department of Computing Science , [[University of Alberta]], [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/TechnicalReports/TR81-9.pdf pdf]</ref>.
=Karpov's Second=
The ''Elite Avant Garde V10'' with a [[Motorola]] [[68040]] processor was used as second for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov Anatoly Karpov] during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1990 1990 World Chess Championship] versus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov Garry Kasparov] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon Lyon], supplied and operated by Fidelity representative [[Tom Fürstenberg]] <ref>[[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)</ref> .
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! Product Link(s) <ref>[httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity Fidelity] from [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)</ref> <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>
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! Tournaments
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| 1982
| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_CC_Elite_Champion Fidelity Elite Champion Sensory Chess Challenger]
[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fidelity_elite_champion.html Fidelity Elite Champion]
| [[6502]], 4 MHz
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| 1983
| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_A/S_Budapest Fidelity Elite A/S Budapest]
| [[6502]], 3.2 MHz
| [[WMCCC 1983]], 1st
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| 1984
| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_A/S_Glasgow Fidelity Elite A/S Glasgow]
| [[6502]], 3.6, 4 MHz
| [[WMCCC 1984]], 1st
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| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_Privat Fidelity Elite Privat]
| [[6502]], 5 MHz
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| 1986
| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_Avantgarde Fidelity Elite Avant Garde]
| [[6502]], 5 MHz
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| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_Avantgarde_2100 Fidelity Elite Avant Garde 2100]
| [[6502]], 6 MHz
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| 1989
| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_V2 Fidelity Elite Avant Garde V2]
| [[68000]], 16 MHz
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| [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fidelity_elite_avant_garde__v_5.html Fidelity Elite Avant Garde V5]
| 2x[[68000]], 16 MHz
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| [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_V6 Fidelity Elite Avant Garde V6]
| [[68020]], 20 MHz
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| [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_V6 Fidelity Elite Avant Garde V8]
| 2x[[68020]], 20 MHz
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| 1994
| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Elite_V11_68060 Fidelity Elite Avant Garde V11]
[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fidelity_elite_avant_garde_v_1.html Fidelity Elite Avant Garde V.11]
| [httphttps://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/68060 68060], 75 MHz
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* [[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 [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~kopec/Publications/Publications/O_34_C.pdf pdf], [http://spider.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~kopec/Publications/Publications/O_34_C.pdf pdf] » [[Super Constellation]]
* [[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)
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9756 The first commercial multi-processor chess computer] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], November 08, 2019
=External Links=
==Chess Computer==
* [http://www.elpeon.com/index.php?mod=eliteas Fidelity Elite A/S Glasgow 6.55Mhz] from [http://www.elpeon.com/index.php Schachcomputer | elpeon.com] » [[Peter Reckwitz]]
* [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/fidelity_elite_avant_garde__v_5.html Fidelity Elite Avant Garde v.5] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=472 Elite Auto Sensory's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=312 Fidelity's ICGA Tournaments]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28disambiguation%29 Elite (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde Avant-garde from Wikipedia]
=References=
