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[[FILE:La Régence 1874.jpg|border|right|thumb| Café de la Régence in 1874 <ref>The famous chess-playing center Café de la Régence of Paris, France, in 1874. [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence Café de la Régence from Wikipedia.fr]</ref> ]]
'''La Regence''',<br/>
a [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computer]] incorporating a [[Z80]] processor with a [[Cyrus]] program by [[Richard Lang]], designed by [[Intelligent Software]]. In 1981, their intention after recruiting Lang was in marketing an improved version of Cyrus in a [[Sensory Board|sensory board]] computer. In January 1982, [[David Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell]] visited the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas,_Nevada Las Vegas] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show Winter Consumer Electronics Show]. There they started talking to some people who distributed chess sets in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris] <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>. Manufactured by a French company around [[Frederic Ries]] <ref>[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4378&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=59 Re: Mephisto Nigel Short on British ebay] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 28, 2011</ref>, the computer was named after the famous 19th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence Café de la Régence] in Paris, and La Regence went on sale in France in November 1982, a luxury machine with a magnetic sensory board for the French market, priced at 3,900 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc francs].
=Tournaments=
According to [[Kevin O’Connell]], a La Regence program already played the [[ACM 1981]] Blitz tournament still running on an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1 Osborne] [[Z80]] based computer, beating [[Cray Blitz]] and [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]], and only losing from [[Belle]] <ref>[[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Intelligent Software''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html April 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_April_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.
However, the [[Philidor Software]] program which played the ACM 1981 main tournament was called [[Philidor]] with [[David Broughton]] and [[Mark Taylor]] mentioned as authors in the booklet <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6ce737 The Twelfth ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1981_ACM_NACCC/1981_ACM_NACCC.sm.062303017.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> and likely more related to [[Vega]] rather than [[Cyrus]].
A dedicated La Regence prototype played the [[European MCC 1982]], and became unlucky runner up behind [[Advance|Advance 2.4]] after losing in the final round by it's own stablemate Philidor.
=Photos=
[[FILE:BogolLaRegenceEMCCC1982.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/with/858204847/]]
[[European MCC 1982]]: [[Bogol]] - [[La Regence]] operated by [[Kevin O’Connell]] <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/with/858204847/ Flickr: Fotostream] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref> <ref>Photo in: [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''[http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n1/123_The_third_European_Microc.php The third European Microcomputer Chess tournament]''. [[Creative Computing]], Vol. 9, No. 1</ref> <ref>[http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=251&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10 Re: Back from Brazil] by [[Steve Blincoe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 12, 2007</ref>
=Sandy TSB 4 La Regence=
[[FILE:TSB IV La Regence.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/859053238/in/album-72157600923814103/| TSB IV La Regence <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600923814103/with/859053238/ 1.The Ultra Rare Collection: Flickr] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref> ]]
The La Regence was a commercial flop in France - in 1983 [[Frederic Ries|Ries']] company went into liquidation and some of the remaining stocks could find their way to the Market <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Harding_%28chess_player%29 Tim Harding] ('''1985'''). ''The New Chess Computer Book''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Press Pergamon Press], p. 65</ref>, distributed by [[Sandy Electronic]], the German company in the dedicated chess computer market otherwise associated with trading [[Applied Concepts]] aka [[Chafitz]] computers under their own brand.
Despite as mentioned elsewhere <ref>[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Chafitz_TSB_4_La_Regence Chafitz TSB 4 La Regence] from [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En Schachcomputer.info - Wiki]</ref> <ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Obermair Gilbert Obermair] ('''1983'''). [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Schachcomputer_Report_%2784 Schach-Computer Report ’84], S. 62-63, [[Applied Concepts]] - La Regence TSB IV, [http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/10-1982%20%5BH-0601%5D%20Applied%20Concepts%20-%20La%20Regence%20TSB%20IV.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]] (German)</ref>, there is probably no other connection of the La Regence with Applied Concepts and Chafitz <ref>[http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4730 Re: La Regence] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], March 08, 2012</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Cyrus]]
* [[Chess 2001]]
* [[Intelligent Chess Software]]
* [[L'Empereur]]
* [[Philidor]]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=251&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=6 Re: Back from Brazil] by [[Alain Zanchetta]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 12, 2007
* [http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=52 Re: Collector's Corner..On Dedicated Chess Computers...] by [[Steve Blincoe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 13, 2007
* [http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=53 Re: Collector's Corner..On Dedicated Chess Computers...] by [[Alain Zanchetta]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 13, 2007
* [http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4378&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=59 Re: Mephisto Nigel Short on British ebay] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 28, 2011
* [http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4730 La Regence] by [[Gerd Isenberg]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], March 08, 2012
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence Café de la Régence from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]
=References=
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'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Dedicated]]
[[FILE:La Régence 1874.jpg|border|right|thumb| Café de la Régence in 1874 <ref>The famous chess-playing center Café de la Régence of Paris, France, in 1874. [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence Café de la Régence from Wikipedia.fr]</ref> ]]
'''La Regence''',<br/>
a [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computer]] incorporating a [[Z80]] processor with a [[Cyrus]] program by [[Richard Lang]], designed by [[Intelligent Software]]. In 1981, their intention after recruiting Lang was in marketing an improved version of Cyrus in a [[Sensory Board|sensory board]] computer. In January 1982, [[David Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell]] visited the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas,_Nevada Las Vegas] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show Winter Consumer Electronics Show]. There they started talking to some people who distributed chess sets in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris] <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>. Manufactured by a French company around [[Frederic Ries]] <ref>[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4378&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=59 Re: Mephisto Nigel Short on British ebay] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 28, 2011</ref>, the computer was named after the famous 19th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence Café de la Régence] in Paris, and La Regence went on sale in France in November 1982, a luxury machine with a magnetic sensory board for the French market, priced at 3,900 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc francs].
=Tournaments=
According to [[Kevin O’Connell]], a La Regence program already played the [[ACM 1981]] Blitz tournament still running on an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1 Osborne] [[Z80]] based computer, beating [[Cray Blitz]] and [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]], and only losing from [[Belle]] <ref>[[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Intelligent Software''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html April 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_April_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.
However, the [[Philidor Software]] program which played the ACM 1981 main tournament was called [[Philidor]] with [[David Broughton]] and [[Mark Taylor]] mentioned as authors in the booklet <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6ce737 The Twelfth ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1981_ACM_NACCC/1981_ACM_NACCC.sm.062303017.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> and likely more related to [[Vega]] rather than [[Cyrus]].
A dedicated La Regence prototype played the [[European MCC 1982]], and became unlucky runner up behind [[Advance|Advance 2.4]] after losing in the final round by it's own stablemate Philidor.
=Photos=
[[FILE:BogolLaRegenceEMCCC1982.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/with/858204847/]]
[[European MCC 1982]]: [[Bogol]] - [[La Regence]] operated by [[Kevin O’Connell]] <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/with/858204847/ Flickr: Fotostream] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref> <ref>Photo in: [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''[http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n1/123_The_third_European_Microc.php The third European Microcomputer Chess tournament]''. [[Creative Computing]], Vol. 9, No. 1</ref> <ref>[http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=251&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10 Re: Back from Brazil] by [[Steve Blincoe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 12, 2007</ref>
=Sandy TSB 4 La Regence=
[[FILE:TSB IV La Regence.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/859053238/in/album-72157600923814103/| TSB IV La Regence <ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600923814103/with/859053238/ 1.The Ultra Rare Collection: Flickr] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref> ]]
The La Regence was a commercial flop in France - in 1983 [[Frederic Ries|Ries']] company went into liquidation and some of the remaining stocks could find their way to the Market <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Harding_%28chess_player%29 Tim Harding] ('''1985'''). ''The New Chess Computer Book''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Press Pergamon Press], p. 65</ref>, distributed by [[Sandy Electronic]], the German company in the dedicated chess computer market otherwise associated with trading [[Applied Concepts]] aka [[Chafitz]] computers under their own brand.
Despite as mentioned elsewhere <ref>[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Chafitz_TSB_4_La_Regence Chafitz TSB 4 La Regence] from [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En Schachcomputer.info - Wiki]</ref> <ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Obermair Gilbert Obermair] ('''1983'''). [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Schachcomputer_Report_%2784 Schach-Computer Report ’84], S. 62-63, [[Applied Concepts]] - La Regence TSB IV, [http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/10-1982%20%5BH-0601%5D%20Applied%20Concepts%20-%20La%20Regence%20TSB%20IV.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]] (German)</ref>, there is probably no other connection of the La Regence with Applied Concepts and Chafitz <ref>[http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4730 Re: La Regence] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], March 08, 2012</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Cyrus]]
* [[Chess 2001]]
* [[Intelligent Chess Software]]
* [[L'Empereur]]
* [[Philidor]]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=251&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=6 Re: Back from Brazil] by [[Alain Zanchetta]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 12, 2007
* [http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=52 Re: Collector's Corner..On Dedicated Chess Computers...] by [[Steve Blincoe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 13, 2007
* [http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=53 Re: Collector's Corner..On Dedicated Chess Computers...] by [[Alain Zanchetta]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 13, 2007
* [http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4378&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=59 Re: Mephisto Nigel Short on British ebay] by [[Mike Watters]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], September 28, 2011
* [http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4730 La Regence] by [[Gerd Isenberg]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], March 08, 2012
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence Café de la Régence from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]
=References=
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'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
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