The result of collaboration with Mike Johnson during 1979 was the Chess System III (right). It was designed and programmed in the UK, and manufactured by SciSys and Novag in Hong Kong (see SciSys and Novag : The Early Years). The System III was based on a 6502 cpu but Mike Johnson also wrote programs for the Fairchild F8 chip...

Meanwhile Philidor Software had been involved in another project, the Intelligent Chess chess computer...

At about this time Mark Taylor was recruited from outside the computer chess tournament circuit...