Sidney+Samole

was an American chess and computer chess promoter and businessmen, owner of Fidelity Electronics in 1976, and the man behind the first series of microcomputers that played a reasonable game of chess. Sidney worked with Ron Nelson and later with Dan and Kathe Spracklen. Their chess computers won many world and national titles. || toc =Photos=
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 * [[image:Sidney_Samole.jpg width="200" link="http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Sid_Samole"]] ||~  || **Sidney (Sid) Samole**, (1935 - July 30, 2000)
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WMCCC 1983

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 * WMCCC 1983, [|Budapest]: Friendly President Match, Peter Auge of Novag vs. Sidney Samole ||

USOCCC 1986

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 * USOCCC 1986: Larry Kaufman talking with Sidney Samole (left) and Terry Everett  ||

=Quotes= Quote from the ICCA Obituary.

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=See also=
 * Chess Challenger
 * Excalibur Electronics
 * Fidelity Electronics
 * Hegener & Glaser
 * Ron Nelson
 * Myron Samole
 * Shane Samole
 * Dan Spracklen
 * Kathe Spracklen

=Publications=
 * Sidney Samole (**1980**). //[|Genius Offspring]//. [|Changing Times], refers Personal Computing, February 1979
 * Sidney Samole (**1984**). //Report from Budapest//. Computer Chess Digest Annual 1984 pp. 35
 * Göran Grottling (**1988**). //Thank you Mister Spock! Ein Interview mit Sid Samole.// Modul 4/88, pp. 36-38 (German), [|pdf] hosted by Hein Veldhuis
 * Göran Grottling (**1989**). //Interview - Sid Samole//. Computer Chess News Sheet 23, pp 4, [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters
 * [|Lev Alburt], [|Al Lawrence] (**2000**). //"How About a Nice Game of Chess?" - Any Time. Sidney Samole (1935-2000)//. [|Chess Café], October 17, 2000, [|pdf]
 * [|Lev Alburt], [|Al Lawrence] (**2001**). //The Ghosts of Chess Heroes Past//. [|Chess Café], December 3, 2001, [|pdf]

=Forum Posts= > [|Re: Sidney Samole (1935-2000)] by Steven Schwartz, CCC, October 18, 2000 » ICD Corporation
 * [|Sidney Samole (1935-2000)] by José Antônio Fabiano Mendes, CCC, October 18, 2000
 * [|Who was Sid Samole?] by Walter Koroljow, CCC, November 16, 2000
 * [|Ron Nelson] by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 23, 2015

=External Links=
 * [|Samole, Sidney - Miami - Florida]
 * [|Fidelity Electronics] from [|chesscomputers.org]
 * [|Search Sidney Samole from the Mastering the Game exhibition and on-line collection] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|Patents Assigned to Sidney Samole - Justia Patents Search]
 * [|Patent US3987498 - Electric elbow - Google Patentsearch]

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