Trying to remember name of chess computers

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I'm trying to remember the name of two chess computers from the mid
80's.

The first was made by Fidelity. It was a travel kind of chess computer
and the pieces had pegs that fit into a hole in each square. It was
brown(?) and had a clearish plast lid that fit over the board, so the
pieces wouldn't fall out when you weren't playing. It was rectangular,
deeper than it was wide. I think I paid about $60 for it at a mall
while on vacation.

The second was about the size of a credit card, although it certainly
wasn't flexible. I don't remember who made it, but I think Novag. I
remember seeing it in the catalog from uscf.

Any ideas?

It's not critical, it's just a case where I've been trying to remember
for a week and it's starting to annoy me.

I did browse the web a bit, but I didn't see anything that looked
familiar. I probably just missed finding the right page.

 

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Thanks for looking, but that's not it...

Somebody emailed and suggested I check

http://www.xs4all.nl/~tluif/chescom/Engindex.html

I see my old Fidelity there...

It was the Mini Sensory Chess Challenger 1. It says it was done in
1981... Gee, I didn't remember it was that long ago!

I don't see a picture of the 'credit card' one. The CXG chess card is
close, but I don't think that was it.

 

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aryz.2687@bumpymail.com wrote in
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> I'm trying to remember the name of two chess computers from
the
> mid 80's.
>
> The first was made by Fidelity. It was a travel kind of
chess
> computer and the pieces had pegs that fit into a hole in each
> square. It was brown(?) and had a clearish plast lid that
fit
> over the board, so the pieces wouldn't fall out when you
weren't
> playing. It was rectangular, deeper than it was wide. I
think I
> paid about $60 for it at a mall while on vacation.
>
> The second was about the size of a credit card, although it
> certainly wasn't flexible. I don't remember who made it, but
I
> think Novag. I remember seeing it in the catalog from uscf.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> It's not critical, it's just a case where I've been trying to
> remember for a week and it's starting to annoy me.
>
> I did browse the web a bit, but I didn't see anything that
looked
> familiar. I probably just missed finding the right page.
>
>

Fidelity Tiny Chess 6118 looks like the model you described. It
sold for $69 in 1991.

http://www.niggemann.com/detail/computer/73.html

This page has a list of Fidelity models:

http://www.zanchetta.net/echecs/ReferencesFidelity.aspx

rt

 

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<aryz.2687@bumpymail.com> wrote in message
news:1120957132.616533.168960@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks for looking, but that's not it...
>
> Somebody emailed and suggested I check
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~tluif/chescom/Engindex.html
>
> I see my old Fidelity there...
>
> It was the Mini Sensory Chess Challenger 1. It says it was done in
> 1981... Gee, I didn't remember it was that long ago!
>
> I don't see a picture of the 'credit card' one. The CXG chess card is
> close, but I don't think that was it.

Wow... what a flashback. I used to have the Mini Sensory. I still have a
Fidelity Designer 1500. It's hanging on the wall as art now.

Eric