Fidelity Little Chesster

Fidelity Little Chesster
Manufacturer	Fidelity	Launch Year	1991
Elo		Price	$89.95
Programmer	Dan & Kathe Spracklen	BT-2450
Processor	M50743 Single Chip	BT-2630
Processor Type	8 Bit	Colditz
Clock	2 MHz	Depth of Search
RAM	256 bytes + 2 KB SRAM for speech?	Display	No
ROM	4 KB	Move Input	Touch Sensory Board
Opening Book	Smaller than Fidelity Excellence	Move Output	16 edge LEDs
Playing Levels	25 levels
Dimensions	26 x 24 x 2.2 cm / Chessboard 20 x 20 cm / King height 4.8 cm
Power Supply	4 AAA batteries, Adaptor = HGN 5001
Related to	Fidelity Chesster Challenger , Fidelity Excellence
Other	64 ply takeback, up to Mate-in-8
Level Infobox 30 Sec / Move 30 Min / Game 60 Sek / Move 60 Min / Game Tournament Analyse/Infinite a5 a6 a8 b1 - f8

Infos

The Fidelity Little Chesster Challenger is a budget version of the Fidelity Chesster Challenger. Emphasis is on an entertaining chess partner. It is still capable of 345 phrases, but the board, the speaker and the computer hardware are all low budget components. The program is the same as the later models of the Fidelity Excellence but on slower hardware with a smaller opening book. It includes a genuine novice level suitable for beginners. (Reference - Computer Chess Reports 1991 Vol2 No 1) The main circuit board components are :- M50743SP - Single Chip cpu with 6502 architecture, 4KB ROM and 256 bytes RAM HY6116ALP - 2KB SRAM and the voice synthesizer chip. In fact two versions of the Little Chesster were manufactured. In the photograph (below) showing both versions, the one on the right is the original version made in 1991, and the one on the left dates from 1992. The original had 8 countdown levels which are not found in the later model. The two versions also have different piece sets.

C Pictures by Michael Watters

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