Excalibur Model E123 Einstein LCD Chess Wizard (2008) Electronic Travel Chess Computer

EINSTEIN CHESS WIZARD

EINSTEIN LCD CHESS WIZARD MODEL E123

Congratulations on your purchase of EINSTEIN LCD CHESS WIZARD. Now, the challenging game of Chess can travel with you anywhere. EINSTEIN LCD CHESS WIZARD offers varying levels of challenging computer opponents, has simple, intuitive controls and is an expert chess teacher!

BOOK OPENING TRAINER

LCD CHESS makes it easy for you to learn the same openings that world chess champions play! The names of the openings are;

1. RUY LOPEZ, OPEN DEFENSE
2. RUY LOPEZ, ZAITSEV DEFENSE
3. RUY LOPEZ, EXCHANGE
4. SCOTCH GAME
5. SCOTCH FOUR KNIGHTS
6. GIUOCO PIANO
7. TWO KNIGHTS DEFENSE
8. FOUR KNIGHTS
9. PETROFF’S DEFENSE
10. SICILLIAN, ALAPIN VARIATION
11. SICILLIAN, NAJDORF VARIATION
12. SICILLIAN, DRAGON VARIATION
13. SICILLIAN, KERES ATTACK
14. CARO-KANN DEFENSE
15. PANOV-BOTVINNIK ATTACK
16. CARO-KANN EXCHANGE VARIATION
17. QUEEN’S GAMBIT DECLINED
18. LASKER-DEFENSE, QUEENS GAMBIT DECLINED
19. QUEENS GAMBIT DECLINED EXCHANGE VARIATION
20. SLAV DEFENSE
21. QUEEN’S GAMBIT ACCEPTED
22. NIMZO-INDIAN DEFENSE, CLASSICAL VARIATION
23. NIMZO-INDIAN DEFENSE, RUBINSTEIN VARIATION
24. SEMI-SLAV DEFENSE
25. QUEEN’S INDIAN DEFENSE
26. QUEEN’S INDIAN DEFENSE, PETROSIAN VARIATION
27. BOGOLUBOW INDIAN DEFENSE
28. CATALAN
29. GRUENFELD DEFENSE
30. KING’S INDIAN DEFENSE
31. MODERN BENONI DEFENSE
32. BENKO GAMBIT

Excerpts taken from the Excalibur Einstein LCD Chess Wizard User Manual.

MORE ABOUT EXCALIBUR EINSTEIN LCD CHESS WIZARD ELECTRONIC CHESS COMPUTER

According to Ron Nelson, by the time Excalibur Alexandra was conceived, the H8 ROMs were being phased out of production, therefore computers such as Excalibur Ivan II or Excalibur Alexandra were developed around the SPLB32A processor from the manufacturer Sunplus. This created its own unique set of problems as Nelson's H8 program had to be translated to work with this new processor which has a 6502 core. This processor had less available RAM therefore in order to make the program fit to these new lower specifications , adjustments were made to the program which included the removal of Nelson's Attack Bit Map Tables and the commenting out of the Ponder routine, which were both important strength of play features that existed in Nelson's H8 program. All these adjustments resulted in a new lesser strength chess program for use with the SPLB32A with its own unique play behavior.

This program was also used later for many other Excalibur chess computers with various adaptations to different processing chips. Excalibur Einstein LCD Chess Wizard running on a Sitronix 65C02S cpu, was one of the last computers to be sold using this program prior to Excalibur's bankruptcy and sale to EB Electronics on Wednesday July 1st, 2009.

Excalibur Einstein LCD Chess Wizard was produced for Excalibur by Wide Concepts Limited in Hong Kong.

Technical Specification

Excalibur Einstein LCD Chess Wizard (2008)

Box

User Manual

Dot Matrix LCD

Spacious Mind

Schachcomputer.Info

Active 2017

Tourn. 2015

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T1

T2

T3

T4

T5

Final

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MANUFACTURER

PROGRAMMER

Excalibur Electronics, Inc

Ron Nelson

1750 USCF

5/24/2008

$49.95

Not Available

Year:

MFR ELO:

Original Price:

Wiki ELO:

Model #:

E123

My Serial #:

Not Available

Processor OEM

Sitronix

Processor:

ST2064B 65C02S

Speed:

Type:

8 Bit

2 MHz

ROM:

64 KB

RAM:

2.375 KB

Battery Type:

2 x AAA

Power Adapter:

Not Available

Display:

LCD Dot Matrix

Board Type:

LCD Chess Board

Overall Size:

Board Size:

1.1/2x1.1/2 in

6x3x3/4 in

Options Select:

Button Select

Play Levels:

56

Opening Book:

32 Openings

Take Back:

Available

Position Setup:

Available

Position Verify:

Available

Move Analysis:

Display Info:

Available

Solve Mate:

Mate in 8

Save Game:

Available

Ponder:

Not Available

Search Depth:

Not Known

Provide Hint:

Available

Teach Mode:

Available

Change Sides:

Available

Active Level:

TM Level:

40 T120

Infinite Level:

FinF

F030

Hardware Specification

Game Features

Matchplay & Test ELO Ratings

Computer Game Rating

Rating Test

Other Computer Chess Ratings

USCF

Spacious Mind

Human Rating

USCF

CCR

CCNS

Ply

FIDE

USCF

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Class C Level Electronic Travel Chess Computer!