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[[FILE:Mephistopheles2.jpg|border|right|thumb|[[:Category:Eugène Delacroix|Eugène Delacroix]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephistopheles Mephistopheles] <ref>Mephistopheles flying over [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenberg Wittenberg], in a lithograph by [[:Category:Eugène Delacroix|Eugène Delacroix]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephistopheles Mephistopheles from Wikipedia], source [http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/theatre/drfaustus.html Dr. Faustus] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe Christopher Marlowe]</ref>
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'''Mephisto''' was a family of [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computers]], produced and traded by [[Hegener & Glaser]] since 1980, starting with [[Mephisto (H)|Mephisto I-III]] by [[Elmar Henne]] and [[Thomas Nitsche]]. In 1985 [[Richard Lang]] became primary Mephisto programmer. All his Mephisto programs were written in [[68000]] [[Assembly]] <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/Richard_Lang_Q_A.pdf Richard Lang - Question & Answer Interview given to a German magazine in 2003] (pdf) from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref> . They competed in various [[World Computer Chess Championship|World-]] and [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship|World Microcomputer Chess Championships]] as well as [[Computer Olympiad]] and [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]] from 1985 until 1993, most often operated by Richard Lang himself and/or [[Opening Book|opening book]] [[:Category:Opening Book AuthorsAuthor|author]] and chess advisor [[Ossi Weiner]].
It was in 1994 when [[Eric Winkler]], CEO of [[Saitek|Saitek Ltd.]], acquired Hegener & Glaser to continue the Mephisto trademark, but no longer with programs of [[Richard Lang]], who had developed [[Chess Genius]] for the [[IBM PC|PC]] market to persist his long term collaboration with [[Ossi Weiner]] until 2003.
* [[Florian Glaser]]
* [[Manfred Hegener]]
* [[Ossi Weiner]], [[Opening Book]] [[:Category:Opening Book AuthorsAuthor|author]] and operator
* [[Eric Winkler]]
