Philips CDi 210 vs. REBEL Portoroz

The idea of these Phillips consoles was to have a decent looking machine in the living room.
It would replace your cd player and be a computer and console all in one machine.
The cpu was a kind of motorola 68000 adaption, so not the weakest possible thing.

You had no internet at that time, instead you could put a complete encyclopaedia into the player and search for interactive presentations of words, you could watch a movie.
Although bigger movies would need 2 cd’s.
You could watch your photo CDs.

There were even Mario and Zelda games and shooters. But of course,
I am only interested in Chess…..

This machine could have been the ideal chess station.
Put 1-2 million games onto the cd.
And several engines , not only sargon but chessmaster (kittinger) , rebel (ed schroeder), chess system tal (whittington) and others.
Huge opening books, big databases, all in the living room.

Never heard of this device before:
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/54682/Philips-CD-i-210-45/

Any games against the Mephisto device to share?

Philips was Europe's last great electronics company - but seems to be on the way out. When I was young, electrical shops were full of their products.

I will publish soon some games….

Here the very interesting game against Ed Schroeders 5 mhz Portoroz Championship version:

[pgn]
[Event "40/120 sommer2023"]
[Site "SCW"]
[Date "2023.03.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Rebel Portoroz sel.5"]
[Black "Sargon Philips CDi"]
[ECO "A80"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5 d5 4. Nf3 {"} h6 {"} 5. Bf4 g5
6. Be5 Bg7 7. e3 g4 8. Nh4 Rg8 9. Nb5 Na6 10. c4 c6 11. Nc3
Ne4 12. Bxg7 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Rxg7 14. cxd5 e6 15. dxc6 Qxh4
16. cxb7 Bxb7 17. Qb3 Re7 18. Bxa6 Bxg2 19. Rg1 Qxh2
20. Bb5+ Kf7 21. O-O-O Rb8 22. Qa4 Bh3 23. f4 gxf3 24. Rh1
Qg3 25. Rhg1 Bg2 26. d5 f2 27. Rxg2 Qxg2 28. dxe6+ Rxe6
29. Bc4 Kf6 30. Qd7 Qe4 31. Qxe6+ Qxe6 32. Bxe6 Kxe6
33. Rf1 Rc8 34. Kc2 h5 35. Rxf2 h4 36. Rh2 Rh8 37. c4 h3
38. Kc3 Kd6 39. Kb4 Ke5 40. Kc3 Ke4 41. Kd2 Kf3 42. c5 Kg3
43. Rh1 h2 44. Kc3 Kg2 45. Rd1 h1=Q 46. Rxh1 0-1
[/pgn]

What an amazing battle.

Mclane wrote:

Here the very interesting game against Ed Schroeders 5 mhz Portoroz Championship version:

[pgn]
[Event "40/120 sommer2023"]
[Site "SCW"]
[Date "2023.03.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Rebel Portoroz sel.5"]
[Black "Sargon Philips CDi"]
[ECO "A80"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5 d5 4. Nf3 {"} h6 {"} 5. Bf4 g5
6. Be5 Bg7 7. e3 g4 8. Nh4 Rg8 9. Nb5 Na6 10. c4 c6 11. Nc3
Ne4 12. Bxg7 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Rxg7 14. cxd5 e6 15. dxc6 Qxh4
16. cxb7 Bxb7 17. Qb3 Re7 18. Bxa6 Bxg2 19. Rg1 Qxh2
20. Bb5+ Kf7 21. O-O-O Rb8 22. Qa4 Bh3 23. f4 gxf3 24. Rh1
Qg3 25. Rhg1 Bg2 26. d5 f2 27. Rxg2 Qxg2 28. dxe6+ Rxe6
29. Bc4 Kf6 30. Qd7 Qe4 31. Qxe6+ Qxe6 32. Bxe6 Kxe6
33. Rf1 Rc8 34. Kc2 h5 35. Rxf2 h4 36. Rh2 Rh8 37. c4 h3
38. Kc3 Kd6 39. Kb4 Ke5 40. Kc3 Ke4 41. Kd2 Kf3 42. c5 Kg3
43. Rh1 h2 44. Kc3 Kg2 45. Rd1 h1=Q 46. Rxh1 0-1
[/pgn]

What an amazing battle.

Fabulous game!

Top programs today might be closing in on being unbeatable - but they don't produce blood and thunder chess like this!