A warm welcome to you. This website is intended to be a source of information and interest for those who enjoy playing and collecting chess computers.

My own collecting interest is focused mostly on the early years. When chess computers first made their appearance through to the time they became strong enough to regularly beat club players. Broadly speaking the first ten years, 1977 to 1986. I also collect wooden auto sensory chess computers, robot chess computers, very strong chess computers and anything else which particularly takes my fancy.

In time there will be more features here filling in some of the gaps in the information available on the web. In early 2007 a SciSys section was added, and in Spring 2008 a detailed feature covering all the Rare chess computers in my collection and the start of a Repairs section. In 2009 a feature on the UK contribution to chess computers and a Patents section were added. There are a few other ideas in the pipeline. Also the Timeline has been updated and extended to include Krypton/Systema, Yeno and Millennium. In time I hope to connect every entry in the Timeline to at least a picture of the chess computer concerned. So far in 2011 a Publications Archive has been started stocked with magazine articles from 1978 to 1985.

I hope that you find your visit of interest and welcome any feedback you wish to give. Email me at mwwebsite@f2s.com

Best wishes to all chess computer friends
Mike Watters   30/06/2011

 

 Chess: The Immortal Game

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This website is set up to work with Internet Explorer.

Having tried it recently with Mozilla Firefox 3.0 I have noticed that Firefox does not always handle Javascript correctly making navigation of the site difficult from the Homepage and Timeline menus. It also does not handle fonts correctly.

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