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Subject: Re: Radio Shack "Chess Champion 2150"

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:26:15 09/06/00

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On September 06, 2000 at 10:46:30, Peter Hegger wrote:

>Hello,
>I was at a pawn shop yesterday and they had a Chess Champion 2150 there which I
>purchased cheap (real cheap). It didn't have an owners manual with it, but I
>managed to figure out most of the functions by trial and error. Imagine my
>delight when I actually managed to beat this machine 3 out of 4 at 20/0.
>I don't know where they came up with the 2150 part when they named this thing,
>because by my lowly 1750 estimate, this thing can't be much better than 1600.
>Does anyone else have any info or have an approximate rating for it?
>Thanks in advance,
>Peter


That is an old machine.  I had one also, but I eventually took it back as
that 2150 rating was total nonsense.  I am not even sure it was a 1600 player.



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