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Latest comment: 17 years ago by IanOsgood in topic Robotic chess computers

Robotic chess computers

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This was removed from the "Inspiration" section of The Turk, saved here for future reference in case a more appropriate article is found. --IanOsgood 17:23, 9 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Chess automatons inspired several high-end robotic chess computers. Several museums had one-off exhibits which coupled an industrial robotic arm with a chess computer. In 1977, Chess 4.7 played a match with David Levy using a custom built robotic arm[1]. The first robotic chess computer for sale to the public was the Novag Robot Adversary in 1981[2][3]which had a robotic arm. Later robotic chess computers would eschew an above-board armature which was expensive to produce and prone to mechanical failure for a cartesian coordinate robot which shifts magnets under the board to move magnetic pieces. Such models included Phantom Chess (1983[4], later sold by Fidelity in 1988[5] and Mephisto in 1990[6]) and the Excalibur Mirage (1997)[7]. The market for high-end standalone chess computers has declined in recent years, so there are no robotic models currently available.