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|| [[image:Conchess_Ambassador_6_20_x_22.JPG link="http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/conchess.html" width="304" height="228"]] ||~   || **Conchess**,
was a brand name of [[6502]] [[Module|module]] based [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computers]] by the German company [[Consumenta]] with a program by  [[Ulf Rathsman]] supported by [[Johan Enroth]]. Consumenta's owners, [[Peter-Ingolf Gericke]] and [[Klaus Heyne]] hired Ulf Rathsman immediatly after his runner up success with [[Princhess]] at the [[WMCCC 1981]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travem%C3%BCnde|Travemünde]] for their project. The computers were developed by //LOPROC// <ref>[[http://branchenbuch.meinestadt.de/feldafing/company/8300431|LOPROC Computer und Logikprozessor Systeme GmbH Feldafing - Branchenbuch meinestadt.de]]</ref>, Germany, and manufactured by //Wallharn Electronics//, Ireland. After Consumenta went bankrupt in 1983, Conchess continued under the aegis of Johan Enroth. Princhess, running on a Conchess computer became tied [[WMCCC 1984|World Microcomputer Chess Champion 1984]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow|Glasgow]], where also two Conchess computers competed with [[Lars Hjörth]] as co-author. At the [[WMCCC 1985]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam|Amsterdam]], Rathsman's new program [[Plymate]] as well as Princhess competed running on dedicated Conchess computers. Their respectable second place in the Commercial team champiomhship was somehow dwarfed by [[Richard Lang|Richard Lang's]] success with his [[Mephisto Amsterdam]] program, yielding more or less in the cessation of Conchess computer manufacturing. ||
|| Conchess Monarch <ref>[[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/conchess.html|Conchess]] from [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Conchess Designer=
|| [[image:RathsmanEnrothConchessTeam1982.jpg]] ||
|| The designers of the "Swedish-made" chess computer Conchess, [[Ulf Rathsman]] and [[Johan Enroth]], 1982 <ref>Den "svensktillverkade" schackdatorn Conchess konstruktörer, [[Ulf Rathsman]] och [[Johan Enroth]], Image from [[https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidskrift_f%C3%B6r_Schack|Tidskrift för Schack]] utges av [[https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Schackf%C3%B6rbund|Sveriges Schackförbund]], [[http://www.schack.se/tfs/tidskrift-for-schack-1982/|No. 9,  November, 1982]], pg. 285, [[http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/history/1982/tfs_1982_09.pdf|pdf]]</ref> ||

=Publications=
* [[Tony Harrington]] (**1983**). //Good Looking, Sensitive and Intelligent//. [[Personal Computer World]], [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html|March 1983]]

=External Links= 
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=414|Conchess' ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/conchess.html|Conchess]] from [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]]
* [[http://www.ismenio.com/chess_conchess_ambassador.html|Conchess Ambassador]] from [[http://www.ismenio.com/chess_computers.html|ChessComputers.org]]
* [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchess|Conchess from Wikipedia.de]] (German)
* [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Conchess|Conchess]] from [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki]] (German)
* [[http://www.schachcomputer.at/conchess.htm|Conchess Monarch]] from [[http://www.schachcomputer.at/index.htm|Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage]] by [[Kurt Kispert]] (German)
* [[http://www.schachcomputer.at/comodule.htm|Conchess Modulvarianten]] from [[http://www.schachcomputer.at/index.htm|Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage]] by [[Kurt Kispert]] (German)

=References= 
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