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news about Mephisto III S 68000 (Glasgow)

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Mephisto III S is back !
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Mephisto III S 68000 Emulator

1984 ! Orwell year:
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Thomas Nitsche, Ossi Weiner and to the right Ulf Rathsmann at the 4th Micro-computer chess championship in Glasgow.
Nitsche and Hennes program Mephisto gets the champion-title of the commercial dedicated chess computers 1984 in Glasgow.

1985:
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Thomas Nitsche operates his Mephisto III machine against the 2 Polgar-sisters (Zsuzsa and Zsofia Polgar from Budapest).

22 years later:

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Thomas Nitsche (one of the programmers of it) and
chess kids (2 are sons of thomas) still doing lot of chess.

more info here:
http://schachcomputerwelt.foren-city.de ... 68000.html
MartinBryant

Re: news about Mephisto III S 68000 (Glasgow)

Post by MartinBryant »

Oh God I hate you Thorsten! (Not really :wink: )
I was there! With Richard Lang.
We drove up from London together in my car.
23 YEARS AGO!!!
I'm getting old...
I AM old...
:(
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:-)


we are all getting older martin.