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|| [[image:FidelityExcellence.jpg link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/858192263/in/set-72157600922170604"]] ||~   || **Excellence**, (Fidelity Excellence) 
a [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computer]] by [[Fidelity Electronics]], produced and distributed since 1985 in various editions of the [[Chess Challenger]] housing. The computer ran an improved [[Elite]] [[6502]] program of the shared [[WMCCC 1984]] champion, which was a [[Sargon]] based program by [[Dan Spracklen|Dan]] and [[Kathe Spracklen]] at 3 or 4 MHz, while a 8 MHz version played the 1985 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Open_Chess_Championship|U.S. Open Championship]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida|Hollywood, Florida]] <ref>Editors (**1985**). //1985 U.S. Open Championship - Hollywood, Florida - August 4-16, 1985//. [[Computer Chess Reports]] 1985, Vol. 3, No. 2</ref>. The Excellence was announced by Fidelity as "over 2000 rated machine" that would sell for "under $100". Strength claims were subject of a lawsuit between Fidelity Electronics and [[ICD Corporation]], who assigned a more skeptical but realistic "over 1700" rating in their   [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Life|Chess Life]] promotion of the Excellence <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=133998|The Fidelity vs. ICD/Your Move Lawsuit... The Epic]] by [[Steven Schwartz]], [[CCC]], October 19, 2000</ref>. ||
|| Excellence  (6080) <ref>[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/sets/72157600922170604/page3/| Flickr - Fotosharing - 2. Fidelity]] by [[Steve Blincoe|Chewbanta]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=See also= 
* [[Chess Challenger]]
* [[Elite]]
* [[Excel]]
* [[Fidelity]]
* [[Fidelity Electronics]]
* [[Par Excellence]]

=Forum Posts= 
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=133998|The Fidelity vs. ICD/Your Move Lawsuit... The Epic]] by [[Steven Schwartz]], [[CCC]], October 19, 2000 » [[Sidney Samole]], [[ICD Corporation]]
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=419949|Collector's corner : Fidelity Excellence]] by [[Alain Zanchetta]], [[CCC]], April 07, 2005
* [[http://www.schachcomputer.info/forum/f2/fidelity-excellence-versionsvielfalt-1118.html|Fidelity Excellence - Versionsvielfalt]] by Fluppio, [[http://www.schachcomputer.info/forum/portal.php|Schachcomputer.info Forum]], December 06, 2006 (German)
* [[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=50563|Excellence/Par Excellence]] by Reinfeld, [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], February 28, 2011
* [[http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5641|Designer 2000 and Excellence - The same program?]] by Celadus, [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], March 16, 2013

=External Links= 
==Chess Computer==
* [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Excellence|Fidelity Excellence]] from [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En|Schachcomputer.info Wiki]] (German)
* [[http://tluif.home.xs4all.nl/chescom/EngFidExc.html|Fidelity Excellence]] by [[http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Etluif/|Tom Luif]]
* [[http://tradechess.blogspot.de/2011/11/players-chess-news-1986-history-of_7399.html|Fidelity Electronics: Players Chess News (1986) - A History of Chess Computers (parte 5)]] by [[https://plus.google.com/105274377681875466269/posts|bychamp]]

==Misc==
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellence|Excellence from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellence_%28disambiguation%29|Excellence (disambiguation)]]

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