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Excalibur Phantom Force

Excalibur Phantom Force,
a talking robot type dedicated chess computer by Excalibur Electronics, released in 2007 . The computer features a X-Y plotter type actuator with motor driven leadscrews and solenoid able to pick up and move the magnetic pieces, a sensory board, LCD, and a control button panel. It has 6502 compatible Sunplus GPLB32A controller running at 5 MHz with integrated 512 kibi ROM, 1216 byte RAM, parallel I/O, UART, PWM/DAC for sound and speech synthesis, and LCD controller. The Ron Nelson program is a 6502 port of his H8 programs, removing attack maps with respect to available RAM, similar to the earlier Alexandra The Great and Ivan II The Conqueror.

See also

• Alexandra The Great
• Excalibur Grandmaster
• Excalibur Igor
• Excalibur Mirage
• Fidelity Phantom
• Ivan The Terrible
• Ivan II The Conqueror
• Milton Bradley Phantom
• Robots

Manual

• Excalibur 740D Phantom Force Electronic Chess Set User Manual

Forum Posts

• Excalibur Phantom Force - Steve B by Bryan Whitby, Hiarcs Forum, September 20, 2007
• Ron Nelson & Talking Chess Computers by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, January 02, 2016
• Chess Products Ron Nelson designed/programmed by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, January 11, 2016
• Excalibur Phantom Force self moving chess robot by JohnW, CCC, February 28, 2020

External Links

Chess Computer

• Excalibur Phantom Force by Tom Luif
• Excalibur Phantom Force - Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
• Excalibur Electronic Chess Computer Collection, The Spacious Mind
• Excalibur Phantom Force self moving chess robot - Gadgetify, February 28, 2020, YouTube Video

Misc

• Excalibur - Wiktionary
• Excalibur from Wikipedia
• phantom - Wiktionary
• Phantom from Wikipedia
• force - Wiktionary
• Force (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Force from Wikipedia

References

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