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Attila Kovács,
a Hungarian computer chess programmer and author of the chess program Kempelen, running on 6502 and 68000 based home computers, like Commodore 64 and Atari ST. Kempelen played four World Microcomputer Chess Championships in the 80s, the WMCCC 1985, WMCCC 1986, WMCCC 1988 and WMCCC 1989, and was market in 1986 by Sierra On-Line [1] [2].

Photos

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Attila Kovács operating Kempelen, playing Árpád Bakonyi [3][4], Budapest, 1984 [5]

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References

  1. ^ Kempelen from GB64.COM
  2. ^ Kempelen Chess from Sierra Online from The Spacious Mind
  3. ^ MAL Hungarian Aluminium
  4. ^ XIV. Pannonia- Nitrokemia Cup (pdf), (German), Pannonia- Nitrokemia Cup International
  5. ^ László Lindner, A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers

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