Home * Engines * SC 1

SC 1 ¹

Schachcomputer SC 1,
VEB Funkwerk Erfurt's first dedicated chess computer species from 1981, build in low quantities of only about 12 to 20 pieces. The SC 1 was merely a prototype kind of a chess computer, to test the performance of their own Z80 clone, the U880 8-bit processor ¹ . The program wasn't yet an own development ², but a program from the "Enemy of the people", a plain copy of Ron Nelson's program of a Chess Challenger manufactured by Fidelity Electronics ³. Remarkably, its successor, the SC 2, which was produced in higher quantities and exported to the capitalistic "First World" to merit foreign exchanges, still was a slightly modified Ron Nelson program ^{4 5}.

See also

• SC 2
• Chess-Master

Publications

• Karsten Bauermeister (1999). Deutsch-Deutsche Geschichte(n). Computerschach und Spiele. No. 5, October-November 1999, pp 32-33 (German)
• Ingo Althöfer (2020). Computer Chess and Chess Computers in East Germany. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3

External Links

• VEB Erfurt SC-1 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
• SC1, Schachcomputer in der DDR from Wikipedia.de (German)
• SC 1 from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
• VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt - Alles nur geklaut from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)

References