Chess+Champion+Super+System+III

Novag's third dedicated chess computer released in 1979, at about the time that the Novag / SciSys split took place. After the early sales period different SciSys and Novag versions of the **Super System III** emerged, the early **Chess System III**, the later SciSys **ChessMaster**, and the **Chess Champion Super System III** by Novag.
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 * [[image:ChessChampionSuperSystemIII.jpg link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/858178111/in/set-72157600922171918"]] ||~ || **Chess Champion Super System III**, (Chess System III, Super System III, ChessMaster)

The chess computer had a 6502 CPU with a Philidor Software program written by Mike Johnson, supported by David Levy with expertise in search heuristics, also providing the opening library. The program and book was stored in 8 [|KiB] of ROM, and used 1 KiB of RAM. It was a kind of modular system with a computer unit, and optionally, a pluggable printer and the very first [|LCD]-chessboard. || toc =Oversight= During the [|1980 Chess Tournament] in [|Bad Kissingen], Germany, sponsored by [|Horten], a German department store chain and primary German Novag distributor , [|Anatoly Karpov] played 25 Super System IIIs in a [|simultaneous exhibition]. In one game he was rather lucky that the program, a rook up, uncorked 32... Rfd8 overlooking mate in one, instead of Qb8 : code [Event "Karpov Simultaneous"] [Site "Bad Kissingen"] [Date "1980.01.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Anatoly Karpov"] [Black "Super System III"] [Result "1-0"]
 * Super System III with LCD Display ||~ ||^ ||

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.O-O d6 7.d3 Be6 8.a3 a5 9.h3 Qe7 10.Rb1 Bf5 11.Bg5 Kh8 12.Nd5 Qd8 13.b4 axb4 14.axb4 Ba7 15.Ra1 h6 16.Bxf6 gxf6 17.Qd2 Kh7 18.Nh4 Be6 19.Be4+ Kg7 20.g4 Nd4 21.Kh2 Nb3 22.Qb2 Nxa1 23.e3 c6 24.Nc3 d5 25.cxd5 cxd5 26.Bg2 d4 27.Nb5 Qb6 28.Nxa7 Qxa7 29.f4 dxe3 30.fxe5 fxe5 31.Qxe5+ Kg8 32.Ng6 Rfd8 33.Qh8# 1-0 code
 * [[image:http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?fen=r4rk1/qp3p2/4b1Np/4Q3/1P4P1/3Pp2P/6BK/n4R2%20b%20-%20-&size=large&coord=no&cap=no&stm=yes&fb=no&theme=classic&color1=E3CEAA&color2=635147&color3=000000]] ||
 * r4rk1/qp3p2/4b1Np/4Q3/1P4P1/3Pp2P/6BK/n4R2 b - - 2 32 ||

=See also=
 * Chess Champion MK I
 * Chess Champion MK II
 * Chess Champion Mark IV
 * Karpov Challenge
 * Karpov's Endorsement
 * Masters

=Publications=
 * [|Novag - Chess Champion Super System III] pdf by Hein Veldhuis
 * [|Schachcomputer: Markt und Müll], [|Der Spiegel] 49/1979, December 03, 1979, (German) [|pdf]
 * John F. White (**1981**). //[|Survey-Chess Games]//. Your Computer, [|August/September 1981]

=External Links=

Chess Computer

 * [|Chess Champion Super System III] from [|Chess Computer UK] by Mike Watters
 * [|Scisys and Novag : The Early Years] from [|Chess Computer UK] by Mike Watters
 * [|Novag SS 3] by Hein Veldhuis
 * [|Novag Chess Champion Super System MK III] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)

Misc

 * [|Champion from Wikipedia]
 * [|Super (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|super - Wiktionary]
 * [|System (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Nintendo Super System from Wikipedia]
 * [|Supersystem (band) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Super/System (Poker book) from Wikipedia]

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