rating dedicated models 1994 - Computadores de xadrez 1994 -

Elite ASC (4.0)

Comparative chart of Prestige Fidelity

www.schaakcomputers.nl - Mr. Luuk Hofman

My research site in Dutch http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/ was interesting. This belongs to Mr. Luuk Hofman. We have some interesting pictures:

Peças para o Exclusive

Oswaldo Monteiro x Renaissance

Mephisto Modular MM II

Oswaldo Monteiro x Mephisto Academy

Oswaldo Monteiro x Grand Master Excalibur

Excalibur Grand Master x Mephisto Monte Carlo

30 minutes entire game!

Chess Genius on E71 Nokia x Mephisto Senator

Inside the Sapphire II (By Richard Tervo)

All credits of material is to Mr. Richard Tervo
The Novag Sapphire II is a powerful portable chess computer. It features an external connector to communicate with a 'smart' chess board, or with a PC. Specifications for the serial communications port are not available from Novag but, fortunately, the critical information can be found in other ways... The Sapphire II protocol uses standard serial port parameters to send and receive 8-bit ASCII at 9600 bits per second. It remains to wire a special connector to attach to the Sapphire II.

Secrets Revealed...

Power Supply Connector

While the case is open, it is a good time to note that the power supply connector is wired "center negative". An inexpensive 9 VDC adapter with this same connector will power the Sapphire II and save a lot of batteries.

A Different kind of RJ-11

The serial plug resembles a standard RJ-11 telephone jack, but the Sapphire connector requires six pins. Most RJ-11 plugs are six pins wide but only the middle four pins (or middle two pins) are present for use with a telephone line. In fact, only four pins actually have wires attached within the Sapphire, but they are not the center four pins, so a full six-pin RJ-11 plug is required.

If a six-wire telephone extension cord can be found, it can serve to connect to this serial port. (Note that most telephone extension cords are 2- or 4-wire and would be unsuitable.)

Identifying the Connections

Let the six pins be numbered 123456, as seen from the outside of the Sapphire II. The diagram below describes each of the pins and shows the cable necessary to connect the Sapphire II to a standard (COM) port.

What's the Connection?

The serial connection is compatible with a standard serial port, but finding the pinout for this plug is another matter. The mystery can be solved by opening the Sapphire II to see what is inside...

Sapphire II Serial Communications Port
Pin 1 = ground
Pin 2 = high (+4V) when power is on
Pin 3 = TX data out
Pin 4 = unused
Pin 5 = RX data in
Pin 6 = unused

IBM-PC Serial Communications Port
(Pins as numbered on the connector)
Pin 8 = CTS
Pin 5 = ground
Pin 3 = TX data out
Pin 2 = RX data in

Testing the Connection

Whenever the red NG button is pressed on the Sapphire II, the text message "New Game\n" is transmitted from its Serial Port. This data stream may be used to test a connection between the Sapphire II and another serial port.

Elite A/S - recuperado

Elite A/S - recuperado pelo Alexandre Pipano

tradechess x Elite A/S

Posição ganhadora para as brancas, mas o Elite clamou pelo empate por eu ter repetido as jogadas.

Super Expert C x Mephisto Portorose 32 bit

Dirk Dagobert Van Riemsdijk

Agradeço o meu amigo Dirk pela ousadia de enfrentar um computador. Sabemos que muitos dos enxadristas profissionais fogem desse desafio pois não querem se expor. Dirk ao contrário, enfrenta e relatou após a partida que também aprende com eles. Ao Dirk meus agradecimentos. Ainda, temos um brasileiro desenvolvendo uma engine, André Fernandes, com website www.tippychess.com ! Agradeço o comentário e o convido para completarmos um desenvolvimento tipicamente nacional, a exemplo do que ocorre na Europa. Agradeço também Antonio Marques, que acompanhou a partida, enviando comentários.

tradechess x Elite A/S

Dirk Dagobert Van Riemsdijk

Por questões técnicas, a partida Dirk x Fruit, que seria realizada em 11 de abril de 2010 foi transferida para o próximo dia 15 de abril de 2010. As razões do adiamento se prende a alguns acertos quanto as regras da partida. Nestes termos ficou acordado:

a) não poderá o mestre consultar literatura de aberturas; (está questão ficou em aberto e questionamos os leitores sobre essa possibilidade, mas não obtivemos retorno)


b) tempo de reflexão 90 minutos com acrescimo de 30 segundos.

Elite A/S x Renaissance

Elite A/S

Step one:

Veio da alemanha, não foi possível consertá-lo. chegou pela DHL no seguinte estado:



Step two:

Alexandre Pipano conseguiu consertar os componentes eletrônicos. Após, foi para o restaurador, assim:











Finalmente: