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Mephisto Dallas 68000 module [1] Mephisto Dallas,

a dedicated chess computer module by Hegener & Glaser released in late 1986 for their Mephisto module systems. Mephisto Dallas was Richard Lang’s further development of the Mephisto Amsterdam, the winner of the previuos year’s WMCCC, still persistant inside a 64 KiB ROM but using 64 KiB of RAM. Improvements were mentioned in evaluation and search, combining enhanced tactical skills with a strategic grasp of pawn stucture, weak pawns, advanced passed pawns, minority attack and king safety [2].

Selected Games#

WMCCC 1986 round 4, the predetermining match of later runner-up Fidelity A vs. later champion Mephisto 3 [5]

[Event "WMCCC 1986"]
[Site "Dallas, USA"]
[Date "1986.11.02"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Fidelity A"]
[Black "Mephisto 3"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Nc3 Nxc3 4.dxc3 d6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bf4 Qd7 7.Bb5 a6 8.Ba4 b5 
9.Bb3 Qf5 10.Bd5 Bb7 11.g3 dxe5 12.Nxe5 O-O-O 13.O-O g5 14.c4 bxc4 15.Nxf7 Rxd5 
16.Qh5 gxf4 17.Qxf5+ Rxf5 18.Nxh8 Bg7 19.g4 Rg5 20.h3 Bxh8 21.c3 h5 22.Rfe1 Ne5 
23.Kf1 hxg4 24.hxg4 Bf3 25.a3 Rxg4 26.Rxe5 Bxe5 27.Rc1 Rh4 28.Ke1 Rh2 29.a4 Bf6 
30.Ra1 Bh4 31.Kd2 Bxf2 32.Kc2 Be4+ 33.Kd1 Be3 34.Ke1 f3 35.Ra2 Rh1# 0-1 

UCI Engine#

Courtesy of Ed Schröder and Richard Lang, Mephisto Dallas is available as emulated UCI engine [6] [7].

See also#

• Demonology
• Mephisto Amsterdam
• Mephisto Roma

Forum Posts#

• Munchen Dallas unit just refurbished, tested and fixed…Offers please.. by Fernando Villegas, CCC, September 08, 2005
• Collectos Corner: my game vs. Dallas 68.020 from 1987 by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, February 08, 2006
• Roma 32 32 Bit vs Dallas 32 Bit by Ricardo Rodulfo, Hiarcs Forum, August 31, 2015 » Mephisto Roma
• Man vs Machine, Alte Zeiten (08) by Kurt Utzinger, CSS-Forum, August 05, 2016 (German)

External Links#

• Mephisto’s ICGA Tournaments (including Dallas)
• Mephisto Munchen Dallas 68020 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
• Mephisto Dallas 68000 from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
• Mephisto Dallas 68020 from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
• Mephisto München Dallas 32 bit, (18 Mhz) from Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage by Kurt Kispert (German)
• Back to the 80’s with UCI by Ed Schröder

References#

1. ↑ Dallas 68000 from Mephisto | Photo collection by Chewbanta
2. ↑ Mephisto Dallas - Bedienungsanleitung. (German) pdf hosted by Alain Zanchetta
3. ↑ Mephisto Munchen Dallas 68020 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
4. ↑ Danny Kopec, Monty Newborn (1986). Belle and Mephisto Dallas Capture Computer Chess Title at the FJCC. reprinted in The ACM’s Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
5. ↑ Dallas 1986 - Chess - Round 4 - Game 4 (ICGA Tournaments)
6. ↑ Back to the 80’s with UCI by Ed Schröder
7. ↑ Back to the 80’s by Ed Schröder, Hiarcs Forum, December 13, 2007

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