Message Boards

General Chess Computer Websites

Kurt’s Schachcomputer Homepage (German language) - Kurt Kispert
Schachcomputer.info (German) - Michael Völschow and others
Wiki Encyclopaedia at (Schachcomputer.info) - All Articles Index
ChessComputers.org (USA) - Ismenio Sousa
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tluif/chescom/Engindex.html (Dutch + English) - my late friend Tom Luif -
at one time Netherlands largest collection plus charming blogs about chess computers and life in general
http://www.zanchetta.net/echecs/ (French + English) - Alain Zanchetta
http://www.meca-web.es/ (Spanish) - Luis Barona
http://electronicchess.free.fr/index-UK.html (French + English)
http://www.spacious-mind.com (USA) - Nick Milichev
http://www.blitzchess.fr/fr/ (French) - Eric Belot
http://www.elpeon.com/index.php (German - including Ebay auction info) - José Gutiérrez
http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/index.php (Dutch) - Luuk Hofman
http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/ (Dutch) - Hein Veldhuis
(Historical expert and archivist)
http://www.chesseval.com/BrandBoard/BrandBoard.htm (USA) - Maurice Ohayon
http://www.anacadigital.com/index.html (Spanish) - Álvaro Benlloch
http://www.csvn.nl/ (Dutch) - Computerschaak
http://www.tradechess.com.br/ (Brazilian) - Oswaldo Monteiro
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/Eric.Terrien/page1/page1.html (French) - Eric Terrien
http://chess-computer.blogspot.co.uk/  (German) - Peter Haupert

Other Collection Websites

Steve Blincoe’s Photograph Collection (USA) - one of the World’s great collections.
Hein Veldhuis (Dutch) - old webpage on CVSN
Karsten Bauermeister (German) - Listing of one of the World’s great collections.
Tom’s Chess Computer Collection (Australian) - Thomas McBurney
Boris Is King (French Canadian and English) - Daniel Collin
Echiquiers Electroniques (French, English etc) - Laurent Faisnel

Manuals

http://www.zanchetta.net/echecs/ (by far the best website for English/German/French/Spanish/Dutch manual scans)

Several manufacturers used to have manuals available to download from their websites.
These webites are nearly all long closed and difficult to access even via the Wayback Mahine.
Access is still available to some -
Saitek/Mephisto manuals (use the “Wayback Machine” and this URL - http://www.mephisto.net/manuals.html

Novag manuals (use the “Wayback Machine” and this URL - http://www.novag.com/Web%202006/Manual%20download/instructions.htm
Then in each case go to the first date in say 2012 and there will appear a lengthy list of manuals which can be downloaded. However nearly all of these will be on Alain Zanchetta’s website already, in some form.
 

Chess Software

HIARCS (UK company of Mark Uniacke) - PC, Mac and iPhone chess software
Chess Genius (UK company of Richard Lang) - PC, pda and mobile phone chess software

Chess Computer Retailers and “Markets”

Doska (Ken Gorman UK retailer)
Niggemann (German Retailer - all things chess computer)
 

Part Updated 9th November 2023