Gideon

a Rebel based series of chess programs developed by Ed Schröder and marketed by TASC and Hegener & Glaser in conjunction with plug-in cards as well as dedicated chess computer modules based on ARM2 [|RISC] processors. The native PC program **Mephisto Gideon** was developed in cooperation with Hegener & Glaser, and later marketed by Ossi Weiner and various other companies and dealer.
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 * [[image:Gideon.jpg link="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_%28Bijbel%29"]] ||~  || **Gideon**,

The World Microcomputer Champion and World Champion titles from 1991 and 1992 look a bit ambiguous, since they are not only dedicated to Gideon or the 1992 entry ChessMachine (with a Gideon program), advertised by TASC for the ChessMachine and Hegener & Glaser for the Mephisto RISC modules, but from Ed's perspective also to Rebel itself. || toc =RISC= Gideon was the name of the first ARM2 [|RISC] version of Rebel, running on a TASC [|ISA card] for an IBM PC. It became third at the WMCCC 1990 in [|Lyon], and World Microcomputer Champion at the WMCCC 1991 in [|Vancouver]. The further improved Gideon 3.1/32 MHz ChessMachine became World Champion at the WCCC 1992 in [|Madrid]. RISC Gideon was further marketed as PC plug-in ChessMachine by TASC in bundle with The King program by Johan de Koning, and as dedicated chess computer of the Mephisto RISC series by Hegener & Glaser.
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=Description= from Don Beal's WMCCC 1991 report :  =Mephisto Gideon= The PC program **Mephisto Gideon** was developed in cooperation with Hegener & Glaser and was Ed's first program running under the MS-DOS operating system, also bundled as **Mephisto Advantage** with the Saitek PC Auto Chessboard. It was entirely written in C and marketed by Ossi Weiner and other dealer in large quantities, while independently **Schröder BV** kept their own brand name Rebel selling it via their own distribution channels in smaller quantities. In 2012, Ed Schröder resurrected //Mephisto Gideon Professional// as WinBoard and UCI compatible [|donationware].

=Forum Posts=
 * [|New programs released!] by Ralf Stephan, rgc, October 10, 1993 » Chess Genius
 * [|Mephisto Gideon Professional (1993) for Winboard and UCI] by Ed Schröder, CCC, August 17, 2012
 * [|Q to Ed Schröder-Gideon Pro = Rebel Decade ???] by Gustavo Mallada, CCC, January 28, 2014

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * [|Mephisto Gideon] from [|Rebel Pure Nostalgica]
 * [|ChessMachine] from [|Rebel Pure Nostalgica]
 * [|Mephisto Gideon's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Chessmachine's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Download Chess Programs] hosted by Ed Schröder
 * [|Donationware] by Ed Schröder
 * [|Chess] by [|Robert Byrne], [|New York Times], June 25, 1991 - on Chess Machine Gideon versus Cumulus, WMCCC 1991

Misc

 * [|Gideon Ståhlberg from Wikipedia]
 * [|Gideon (biblical figure) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Gideon - disambiguation page from Wikipedia]

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