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Milton Bradley Phantom,
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The story goes like this. Milton Bradley rang David Levy of Intelligent Software in June 1981 saying that they wanted some advice about chess computers. They asked Levy to go to see them at their East Longmeadow, Massachusetts offices.
This is how Levy described the meeting ‘When I arrived they showed me into a room and, after asking me to sign the traditional non-disclosure agreement, they put a machine on the table, switched it on, and a pawn moved - as if by magic - from e2 to e4 - without any human intervention or any visible, physical device for making it move. I was fascinated,’ Levy said.
‘This was the idea they wanted to develop: that is, they wanted the mechanism that had just moved the pawn developed to the point where it would be reliable enough to be used in a consumer product. And they wanted a chess program that would work with this mechanism.’
Although still working on programs for Scisys, after consultation with colleagues Levy’s response was to take on the project. He said ‘ It was the most exciting chess product that we had been faced with and we could not resist the challenge.’
Milton Bradley wanted the project completed in five months and Levy was asked if his company could do it in that time. When Levy phone
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Milton Bradley born in Vienna, Maine, USA in 1836 was a famous game pioneer. In 1860 he set up his first color lithography shop. At about the same time he invented a game called “The Checkered Game of Life” after having played an imported European game with a friend that used a spinner to determine how many spaces a player moves. By 1861 he had sold more than 45,000 copies of this game. In 1864 he formed Milton Bradley and Company. In 1880 he began producing Jigsaw puzzles. Milton Bradley died in 1911.
His company however continued to innovate the game industry inventing over the years many famous games still played today such as Battleships, Scrabble, Snakes and Ladders, Yahtzee and Connect Four.
In 1983 MB introduced a robotic dedicated chess computer which was sold under the names of MB Grandmaster and MB Phantom in USA and Milton in Germany. In 1984 Milton Bradley patented the design of this innovative robotic chess computer.
A short time later in 1984, Milton Bradley is bought by Hasbro, Inc who still today continue to use the Milton Bradley name as a unique Brand in their product portfolio.
Sadly, for dedicated chess computer fans no further computers were developed or sold by Hasbro, Inc. However the design and concept for the Milton Bradley robot was so