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was an American electrical engineer, entrepreneur and chess programmer. Along with Linda Scherzer, Tony was primary author of Bebe, a chess program and machine build around their company's //SYS-10, Inc.//, custom mini- and mainframe processors based on [|bit slice] technology. Bebe played almost all major tournaments in the 80s, and was one of the strongest chess machines of its time.
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 * [[image:TonyScherzer.JPG]] ||~  || **Anthony (Tony) Scherzer**, (October 19, 1946 - January 1995)

After Tony Scherzer's early death in January 1995, //SYS-10, Inc.// continued, and is now a company providing custom software applications located in [|South Elgin, Illinois], owned by Linda Scherzer since 1978. || toc =Selected Publications=
 * Tony Scherzer, WCCC 1986 ||~   ||^   ||
 * Tony Scherzer (**1979**). //Background on BB-1//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 11, pp. 80 » BB-1
 * Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer, Dean Tjaden (**1990**). //Learning in Bebe.// Computers, Chess, and Cognition » Mephisto Best-Publication Award
 * Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer, Dean Tjaden (**1991**). //Learning in Bebe.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4
 * Ken Thompson, Jonathan Schaeffer (**1995**). //Tributes to Tony Scherzer//. ICCA Journal, [|Vol. 18, No. 1]

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Re: Who is the better chess program author? (more)] by Robert Hyatt, CCC, December 13, 2001

=External Links=
 * [|Tony Scherzer's ICGA Tournaments]

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