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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * President Chess** || [[image:PresidentChess.jpg]] ||~ || **President Chess**, (President Turbo) a prototype of a [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computer]] by [[Saitek|SciSys]] with a [[Sensory Board]] and an early program by [[Julio Kaplan]], somewhere between [[Sensor Chess]] and [[Superstar]]. The computer has a [[6502|6502A]] processor running at 2 MHz with 18 KiB [[Memory#ROM|ROM]] and 2 KiB [[Memory#RAM|RAM]]. It played the [[European MCC 1982|3rd European MCC 1982]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London|London]] under the name President Turbo <ref>[[Tony Harrington]] (**1983**). //[[http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n1/123_The_third_European_Microc.php|The third European Microcomputer Chess tournament]]//. [[Creative Computing]], Vol. 9, No. 1</ref>. It was never released, effectively superceded by the [[Superstar|Superstar 28K]] in October 1983. A few test specimen are valuable collector's items <ref>[[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/president_chess.html|President Chess]] from [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>. || || President Chess <ref>Image from [[http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/07-1982%20%5BJ-0701%5D%20SciSys%20-%20President%20Chess%20%28prototype%29.pdf|SciSys - President Chess (prototype)]] (pdf) by [[Hein Veldhuis]] </ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =See also= * [[Saitek President]] * [[Sensor Chess]] * [[Superstar]] * [[Turbostar]] =Forum Posts= * [[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6777|Collector's Corner...Scisys President Chess]] by [[Steve Blincoe|Steve B]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], July 10, 2014 =External Links= * [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/president_chess.html|President Chess]] from [[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html|Chess Computer UK]] by [[Mike Watters]] * [[http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/07-1982%20%5BJ-0701%5D%20SciSys%20-%20President%20Chess%20%28prototype%29.pdf|SciSys - President Chess (prototype)]] (pdf) by [[Hein Veldhuis]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include component="backlinks" page="President Chess" limit="30" ]] **[[Engines|Up one level]]**