Collector's Corner..The Annual Tournament at Klingenberg

[Steve B]

Has just concluded

Nestled high above the Bavarian Mountain top.. thousands of collectors gathered for the annual competition in Klingenberg Germany

the winner was the Mephisto Amsterdam ..
sadly.. a MOFIDIED Fidelity Elegance was allowed to compete and captured second place from the Novag Forte on tiebreaks:

the final crosstable:

Oldie Turnier, Klingenberg 2007
Platz Gerät
1. Amsterdam, Mephisto (Thomas) 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 5½
2. Elegance 14 MHz, Fidelity (Alwin) 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 5 28.50
3. Constellation Forte B, Novag (Rainer M.) 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 5 28.00
4. MM IV +HG440, Mephisto (Uwe) 1 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 4½ 30.00
5. Excel 68000, Fidelity (Arno) 1 1 1 0 0 1 ½ 4½ 28.50
6. Mega IV, Mephisto (Reinhard) 0 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 4½ 26.00
7. Grandmaster 24 MHz, Excalibur (Willi) 1 0 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 4 29.00
8. MM II, Mephisto (Frank) ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 1 4 23.50
9. Modena, Mephisto (Mo Sai) 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 3½ 28.00
10. Turbo King II, Saitek (Hans) 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 3½ 23.00
11. Constellation Expert, Novag (Bernhard) 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 3½ 22.50
12. Prestige, Fidelity (Christian) 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 3½ 19.00
12. Krypton Challenge (Robert) 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 3½ 19.00
14. Elite Privat, Fidelity (Micha) 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 3 25.50
15. Phantom, Fidelity (Gerhard) 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 3 24.00
16. Monte Carlo, Mephisto (Dirk H.) 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 22.50
17. Final Chess Card, TASC. (Dirk L.) ½ 1 0 0 0 1 0 2½
18. Sphinx 40 16 Bit, CXG. (Rainer S.) 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 2
19. Playmatic 5 MHz, Fidelity (Steffen) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 22.00
20. Blitz, Kasparov (Sabine) 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 20.00

photos and good German Beer can be had here:
http://www.schachcomputer.info/html/old ... _2007.html


Hiccup Regards
Steve

[Larry]

That Elegance is a bit suspect for sure. Standard it is a 6502
running at 3-4mhz. They don't overclock to 14mhz. Try it and you
will cook the machine. Maybe it's not an Elegance at all, but a
completely different circuit board put into the Elegance case.
But surely they would have checked this. Or would they?
Larry
PS Admittedly, the Elegance took an add on module, bit it made no
difference to the clock speed, just to the opening book, AFAIK.

[Steve B]

thats right
the add on modules only increased the built in book or offered a collection of Great Games which could be reviewed and played back
certainly no hardware changes

a quick review of the games the Elegance played at the tourney seems to indicate that even the opening moves the Elegance played is not from the standard built in Elegance book.. i havent really compared it too closely...yet..and even if i am correct the collector could have been using one of the book modules

i really admire this one particular collector

can you imagine the zest he must have for his hobby to shlep a Fidelity Eyeball Chesster Phantom Robot all the way to the top of the Bavarian mountains?:

http://www.schachcomputer.info/html/bod ... 07_16.html

but wait!
those are not even the right pieces!

Modified Madness Regards
Steve

[Jaimes Conda]

Has just concluded

Nestled high above the Bavarian Mountain top.. thousands of collectors gathered for the annual competition in Klingenberg Germany

the winner was the Mephisto Amsterdam ..
sadly.. a MOFIDIED Fidelity Elegance was allowed to compete and captured second place from the Novag Forte on tiebreaks:

the final crosstable:

Oldie Turnier, Klingenberg 2007
Platz Gerät
1. Amsterdam, Mephisto (Thomas) 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 5½
2. Elegance 14 MHz, Fidelity (Alwin) 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 5 28.50
3. Constellation Forte B, Novag (Rainer M.) 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 5 28.00
4. MM IV +HG440, Mephisto (Uwe) 1 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 4½ 30.00
5. Excel 68000, Fidelity (Arno) 1 1 1 0 0 1 ½ 4½ 28.50
6. Mega IV, Mephisto (Reinhard) 0 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 4½ 26.00
7. Grandmaster 24 MHz, Excalibur (Willi) 1 0 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 4 29.00
8. MM II, Mephisto (Frank) ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 1 4 23.50
9. Modena, Mephisto (Mo Sai) 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 3½ 28.00
10. Turbo King II, Saitek (Hans) 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 3½ 23.00
11. Constellation Expert, Novag (Bernhard) 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 3½ 22.50
12. Prestige, Fidelity (Christian) 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 3½ 19.00
12. Krypton Challenge (Robert) 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 3½ 19.00
14. Elite Privat, Fidelity (Micha) 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 3 25.50
15. Phantom, Fidelity (Gerhard) 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 3 24.00
16. Monte Carlo, Mephisto (Dirk H.) 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 22.50
17. Final Chess Card, TASC. (Dirk L.) ½ 1 0 0 0 1 0 2½
18. Sphinx 40 16 Bit, CXG. (Rainer S.) 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 2
19. Playmatic 5 MHz, Fidelity (Steffen) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 22.00
20. Blitz, Kasparov (Sabine) 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 20.00

photos and good German Beer can be had here:
http://www.schachcomputer.info/html/old ... _2007.html


Hiccup Regards
Steve

Steve,
Last picture second row:Robert,Gerhard und Alwin.
The gentleman in the foreground wearing specticules head turned to the fight.

What is that small computer on the table showing a chess board seen just behind the mans head?


Regards: Jaimes

[fern]

What a sheerful atmosphere exhudes the place and the event!!!!
You can bet you would not meet such a mood in an engine-engine competition.
In this last case fights are of the order of the day, with arbiters called because one engine is using a machine 1 Mhz faster. Knives and pistols on the table, not good beer. Corpses are trashed every day in a parking facility.
No, let us go to the next competition, together.
I will take my Champion and get last place, but I will drink beer as an artillery officer.

Preparing my luggage regards
Fernando

[MikeB]

Has just concluded

Nestled high above the Bavarian Mountain top.. thousands of collectors gathered for the annual competition in Klingenberg Germany

the winner was the Mephisto Amsterdam ..
sadly.. a MOFIDIED Fidelity Elegance was allowed to compete and captured second place from the Novag Forte on tiebreaks:

....

Hiccup Regards
Steve

Hi Steve - next I plan on running a modifiied wireless Citrine connected via Bluetooth to an 8 Core Box running either Rybka Hiracs or Crafty nestled high in the Pocono Mountains .

test photo - has noting to do with my comment above - simply a snapshot of xp running under xp64 in vpc.

[MikeB]

Has just concluded

Nestled high above the Bavarian Mountain top.. thousands of collectors gathered for the annual competition in Klingenberg Germany

the winner was the Mephisto Amsterdam ..
sadly.. a MOFIDIED Fidelity Elegance was allowed to compete and captured second place from the Novag Forte on tiebreaks:

....

Hiccup Regards
Steve

Hi Steve - next I plan on running a modifiied wireless Citrine connected via Bluetooth to an 8 Core Box running either Rybka Hiracs or Crafty nestled high in the Pocono Mountains .

test photo - has noting to do with my comment above - simply a snapshot of xp running under xp64 in vpc.

can anybody tell me why the imagine tags above do not work?

thanks,

Michael


another test


YES it finally worked - some of us are slower than others....sorry about the repeated test of images.

[Steve B]

Has just concluded

Nestled high above the Bavarian Mountain top.. thousands of collectors gathered for the annual competition in Klingenberg Germany

the winner was the Mephisto Amsterdam ..
sadly.. a MOFIDIED Fidelity Elegance was allowed to compete and captured second place from the Novag Forte on tiebreaks:

....

Hiccup Regards
Steve

Hi Steve - next I plan on running a modifiied wireless Citrine connected via Bluetooth to an 8 Core Box running either Rybka Hiracs or Crafty nestled high in the Pocono Mountains .

test photo - has noting to do with my comment above - simply a snapshot of xp running under xp64 in vpc.

can anybody tell me why the imagine tags above do not work?

thanks,

Michael


another test


YES it finally worked - some of us are slower than others....sorry about the repeated test of images.

hi Mike

thanks for using my thread to test out various Pc related things you are interested in

what are friend's for right?
Regards
Steve

[MikeB]

YES it finally worked - some of us are slower than others....sorry about the repeated test of images.

hi Mike

thanks for using my thread to test out various Pc related things you are interested in

what are friend's for right?
Regards
Steve

rest assured that my next post, and God willing, will show a Citrine running an 8 Core PC chess engine via a wireless connection - you will be proud I am sure - in fact , I may dedicate this setup in your honor

Citrine SB regards,

Michael

[Robert Weck]

Hi Jaimes,

Steve,
Last picture second row:Robert,Gerhard und Alwin.
The gentleman in the foreground wearing specticules head turned to the fight.

What is that small computer on the table showing a chess board seen just behind the mans head?

It is a Sony Vaio PCG C1VE; it has a Transmeta CPU with 600 MHz (performance about PIII-400 MHz) running WinME.

Not very fast, but enough to analyze the games of our old dedicated friends!

It is a very handy computer; especially useful at those events, where you don't have much space available...

@Larry: The Elegance was modified by Mr. Bucke, a well-known Fidelity expert (maker of the EAG V11 68060). Maybe he used a WDC6502 or similar; they can run at 14 MHz and more. But they are not 100% compatible to an old 6502 and require some modifications (i'm not an expert regarding this)

And the Elegance was running with a CB16 opening module.


best regards,
Robert