Ephraim+Kishon

was an Hungarian born, Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He spent most of his youth in [|labour camps] and in various hiding-places in fear of the [|Nazis]. 1944 Kishon was deported to [|Jolsva], a labour camp in [|Slovakia] but together with a friend he managed to escape. In the camp he worked as a secretary for the district commandant. He got his job only because of the fact that he was an excellent chess player and the Nazi commander wanted to play with him.
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 * [[image:Ephraim_Kishon_6.jpg link="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ephraim_Kishon_6.jpg"]] ||~   || **Ephraim Kishon**, (August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005)

Kishon was a life-long chess enthusiast, and took an early interest in chess-playing computers. In 1990, German chess computer manufacturer Hegener & Glaser along with its affiliate at that time, Fidelity Electronics, produced the **Kishon Chesster** , a dedicated chess computer with a program by Dan and Kathe Spracklen, distinguished by the spoken comments of Kishon. || toc =Selected Publications=
 * Ephraim Kishon ||~ ||^ ||
 * Ephraim Kishon (**1979**). //Compushvili//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 76
 * Ephraim Kishon, [|Helmut Pfleger], Ossi Weiner (**1993**). //Der Schachcomputer: Gegner und Freund//. Ullstein (German)
 * Ephraim Kishon, [|Helmut Pfleger], Ossi Weiner (**1998**). //Der Schachcomputer: Gegner und Freund//. Nymphenburger Verlag

=See also=
 * WCCC 1986 Video

=External Links= > [|Ephraim Kishon - Photographien]
 * [|Ephraim Kishon from Wikipedia]
 * [|Ephraim Kishon's web pages]
 * [|Ephraim Kishon, 1924 – 2005], obituary by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase, February 04, 2005
 * [|Ephraim Kishon gestorben: "Ein Genie des Humors"], [|Der Spiegel Online], January 30, 2005 (German)
 * [|Ephraim Kishon], [|Der Spiegel], 6/2005, February 05, 2005 (German)
 * [|Fidelity Kishon Chesster Challenger Electronic Chess Computer], The Spacious Mind
 * [|Kishon Chesster] from [|Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)

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