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Subject: Re: To Johan de Koning: Please convince Tasc to begin production of the R30!

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 11:22:14 05/23/03

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On May 23, 2003 at 13:00:18, Trevor Dean wrote:

>About 5 days ago I sent an E-Mail to Tasc BV asking them to reconsider, and
>resume production of the Tasc R30/40. I advised them that a lot of members of
>CCC would dearly love to buy one, and that to date they still have the strongest
>dedicated unit ever made, despite all the newer models from other manufactures.
>What I didn't suggest was that i would be prepared to accept (reluctantly) Auto
>sensory if they couldnt get around the copyright infringements of piece
>recognition technology.
>
>Sadly i have not had a reply or acknowledgement yet.
>I await in hope.
>
>Trevs

Although it is certainly a beautiful piece of work, I can't imagine it making
much sense nowadays except as an alternative to the DGT board. Last I read it
was going for at least $1500 if not more. One could easily purchase a full
desktop or laptop with a top program and the DGT autosensory board (a beautiful
board BTW - having worked with it recently) for that much and have a MUCH
stronger chess opponent with far more possibilities as you'd have a full
computer for the deal. Furthermore one would have all the opponents one could
want.

                                     Albert



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