Savant

a dedicated chess computer released in 1981 by Novag Industries LTD. The Savant had a Z80 CPU with 24 KB ROM and 4 KB RAM running on 3.6 MHz. The Savant was years ahead of its time using an [|LCD] chessboard with [|touchscreen] technology. The program was based on David Kittinger's MyChess, and competed at the Commercial Group of the WMCCC 1981 in [|Travemünde] and the ACM 1982 in [|Dallas, Texas]. || toc =See also=
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 * [[image:savant.jpg link="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/858166235/sizes/o/in/set-72157600922171918/"]] ||~  || **Savant**, (Novag Savant)
 * Savant I ||~  ||^   ||
 * MyChess
 * Robot Adversary

=Publications=
 * John F. White (**1982**). //[|Review-Chess Computers]//. Your Computer, [|March 1982]
 * Alwin Gruber (**2001**). //Schachcomputer die Geschichte schrieben - Der Novag Savant//. ChessBits, 01-2001, [|pdf], slightly modified by Hein Veldhuis (German)

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Novag Savant 2...mint condition...] by Larry, Hiarcs Forum, June 29, 2010
 * [|The Return Of The Savant] by Steve B, Hiarcs Forum, January 14, 2017

=External Links=

Chess Computer

 * [|Savant's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Novag Savant II] from [|Chess Computer UK] by Mike Watters
 * [|Novag Savant Electronic Chess Computer] from The Spacious Mind
 * [|Novag Savant] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|Novag Savant Royale] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|Novag Savant] from [|Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage] by Kurt Kispert (German)
 * [|Savant] by [|Tom Luif]

Misc

 * [|savant - Wiktionary]
 * [|Savant (disambiguation page) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Savant syndrome from Wikipedia]

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