MephistoWundermaschine
[ Eugène Delacroix - Mephistopheles [1] Mephisto was a family of dedicated chess computers, produced and traded by Hegener & Glaser since 1980, starting with Mephisto I-III by Elmar Henne and Thomas Nitsche. In 1985 Richard Lang became primary Mephisto programmer. All his Mephisto programs were written in 68000 Assembly [2] . They competed in various World- and World Microcomputer Chess Championships as well as Computer Olympiad and ACM North American Computer Chess Championship from 1985 until 1993, most often operated by Richard Lang himself and/or opening book author and chess advisor Ossi Weiner.
It was in 1994 when Eric Winkler, CEO of Saitek Ltd., acquired Hegener & Glaser to continue the Mephisto trademark, but no longer with programs of Richard Lang, who had developed Chess Genius for the PC market to persist his long term collaboration with Ossi Weiner until 2003.
ACM 1988
Nelson, Hyatt and Weiner, Mephisto X aka Almeria - Cray Blitz, ACM 1988 [3]
ACM 1989
Richard Lang operating Mephisto Portorose vs. Deep Thought at ACM 1989 [4]
WMCCC 1993
At the WMCCC 1993 the Mephisto Wundermaschine (Miracle Machine) [5] [6], running Genius on an internal 80486 PC, won the Manufacturers Group and the playoff versus Software Champion HIARCS for the title of the World Micro Absolute Champion.
Playoff Wundermaschine vs. HIARCS, Richard Lang, David Levy, Mark’s father and Mark Uniacke [7]
Achievements
Richard Lang won ten times the World Microcomputer Chess Championship in a row, eight times with Mephisto, 1984 and 1987 with Psion, 1995 with Chess Genius.
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Mephisto People
Programmers
Chess programmers associated with Mephisto computers [9] :
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Business People
See also
- Hegener & Glaser
- Mephisto Atlanta
- Mephisto Europa
- Mephisto (H)
- Mephisto Milano
- Mephisto Milano Pro
- Mephisto MM II
- Mephisto MM IV
- Mephisto MM V
- Mephisto Module Systems
- Mephisto Mondial
- Mephisto Montreux
- Mephisto Nigel Short
- Mephisto Polgar
- Mephisto Rebell
- Mephisto RISC
- Saitek
- The Mephisto Best-Publication Award
Publications
- Detlef Pordzik (1999). Mephisto - Eine “teuflische” Firmengeschichte. Rochade Europa, 02-1999, pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis
Forum Posts
- Re: Which Mephisto Version Beat Deep Thought? by Steve B, CCC, January 04, 2005 » ACM 1989
- Mephisto Modules Architecture and Interoperability by braeburn, CCC, May 03, 2007
- Tournoi Mephisto 1985 by Eric Belot, Hiarcs Forum, June 08, 2009 » Mephisto MM II, Mephisto Amsterdam
External Links
Chess Computer
- Mephisto (chess computer) from Wikipedia
- Mephisto’s ICGA Tournaments
- About the company Hegener & Glaser (Mephisto) from Schachcomputer.info - Wiki
- Hegener & Glaser (Mephisto) from ChessComputers.org
- Chess Computers - The UK Story from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
- Mephisto | Photo collection by Chewbanta
- Mephisto from Saitek
- Mephisto Electronic Chess Computers from The Spacious Mind
- Back to the 80’s with UCI by Ed Schröder » UCI
Misc
References
- ↑ Mephistopheles flying over Wittenberg, in a lithograph by Eugène Delacroix, Mephistopheles from Wikipedia, source Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- ↑ Richard Lang - Question & Answer Interview given to a German magazine in 2003 (pdf) from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
- ↑ Photo from The Computer History Museum (wrong text)
- ↑ Lang playing Mephisto at the 20th ACM North American Computer Chess Championship in Reno, 1989, Gift of Monroe Newborn from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Mephisto Wundermaschine from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
- ↑ Mephisto Wundermaschine from Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage by Kurt Kispert
- ↑ Hiarcs Fan Page by Thorsten Czub
- ↑ Mephisto computers from Schachcomputer.info Wiki
- ↑ Interview mit Manfred Hegener (pdf), Erwerbsquelle: 10-1985, Zeitschrift Schachcomputer (Herausgeber Florian Piel), Edition 20, S. 6-8, Gerhard Piel: Neue Programme von neuen Programmierern.(German) hosted by Hein Veldhuis
- ↑ Schachcomputer.info Wiki