Author: Ben Weeston
Date: 07:46:37 07/01/03
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In a post I made 10-15 days ago, I "complained" about the quality of the board - specifically the chess board "cloth" that bubbles up around the edges and the chess pieces that look like they cost $1.00 to manufacture. After that (could have been before that), I started seeing posts that questioned the 2450-2500 rating that Novag was claiming. During the advertisements I saw on ICD and Novag, the ratings went as high as 2550. Those were selling points for me. When I received the Star Diamond, I was disappointed with the "toy-like" quality of the board vs. an enclosure that looked professional along with the claimed rating. Didn't see it. However, I'm judging it by its appearance and not by it's playing capability. That judgement is still out. I'm thinking about using it against some of my computer chess programs to let those programs rate the play coming from the Star Diamond. I'll let you know what I find out when I get the time to run these tests. I don't recall anything being mentioned about hash table sizes. Just the RAM and ROM, opening book, processor, processor speed, etc.
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