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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. =Avant Garde=In 1989 the new series of '''Elite Avant Garde''' computer was released, featuring [[Motorola|Motorola's]] 16-bit [[68000]] and 32-bit [[68020]] processors along with [[Transposition Table|transposition tables]].

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>.