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CXG Logo [1] CXG Newcrest Technology Ltd., (CXG Systems)

a Hong Kong based manufacturer of consumer electronics and dedicated chess computers managed by Australian technologist Eric White along with Ken Cohen. CXG forerunner were founded in 1979 as Cassia and in 1981 as White and Allcock [2], renamed in 1984 to CXG Newcrest Technology Limited, in 1991 changed over to National Telecommunications System Ltd. with further successors Krypton Ltd. (1994) and Timorite Ltd. (1995-1996), Systema Leisure Ltd. (1997-2001), and subsequently other Hong Kong companies, continuing the dedicated computer business [3].

CXG

In 1981, Eric White started the collaboration with David Levy’s and Kevin O’Connell’s new company Intelligent Software. White and Allcock’s first own dedicated chess computer was the CXG Sensor Computachess [9] with a 4-bit Hitachi processor HD44801, and the program by Mark Taylor using only 160 nibbles of RAM, which predecessor was already instantiated in the SciSys Mini Chess series earlier this year. CXG became brand name of White and Allcock and since 1984 CXG Newcrest Technology Ltd.

Chess computers were designed in Hong Kong, manufactured in China, and then marketed under various brand names and retailers, including CXG [10] [11], Computer Games Ltd. (CGL), ComputaChess, Crown, Hanimex, Unimex, Tandy via RadioShack, Krypton [12] [13], Schneider [14] [15], Systema and Toytronic. In 1998 in partnership with Tiger Electronics ( Hasbro) [16], White produced the Tiger Grenadier and Tiger Voice Master [17]. Chess computers were also manufactured for Excalibur and Millennium 2000 [18]. David Levy was the source of programs for all cheaper models [19], using Sunplus 8-bit chips [20] (now Generalplus [21]).

Selected Computers

| Year | Model | Programmer


1979
Cassia Chess Mate	Ron Nelson [22] [23]
1981
CXG Sensor Computachess	Mark Taylor
1982
CXG Computachess II	Mark Taylor
1983
Systema Computachess [24]	Mark Taylor
1984
CXG Chess 2001	Richard Lang
	CXG Computachess III	Kaare Danielsen
1985
CXG Star Chess	Kaare Danielsen
1986
CXG Sphinx Titan	Kaare Danielsen
	CXG Advanced Star Chess	Kaare Danielsen
1987
CXG Sphinx	Mark Taylor
1989
CXG Sphinx Dominator	Frans Morsch
	CXG Sphinx Galaxy	Frans Morsch
1992
CXG Sphinx Accolade	Gyula Horváth

Associated Programmers

| Author

List of computers [25]
Kaare Danielsen	Danielsen, Kaare
Chrilly Donninger	Donninger, Christian
Gyula Horváth	Horvath, Gyula
Richard Lang	Lang, Richard
Frans Morsch	Morsch, Frans
Mark Taylor & David Levy	Taylor, Mark