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The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100

1988 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ107629925 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 is a computer chess video game published in 1988 by The Software Toolworks for the Apple IIGS, Classic Mac OS, and Commodore 64. Versions for MS-DOS and Amiga were later released. An Atari ST version was advertised and a Mega Drive version shown at Winter CES 1992, but neither were published.

Gameplay

The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 is a game in which 110 historical chess matches from 1834 to 1988 are included.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100” is 1988 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fidelity, Chessmaster and video, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1992, 1834—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fidelity, Chessmaster and video is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1988 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107629925. The first chronological checks are 1988, 1992 and 1834.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.