Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 07:27:26 12/14/00
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I have the great fortune of: 1. It's my birthday today. 2. I have a great girlfriend. 3. She bought me a (just-released) Handspring Prism handheld, which runs the PalmOS but supposedly twice as fast as the other Palm units, and runs with 65,000+ colors (so you can see the screen nicely in any conditions except bright sunlight). 4. I recently bought Chess Genius 1.2 for the Palm which, hopefully, will run fine on the Prism (I'll check tonight) and should make it a pretty darn strong color LCD handheld chess computer (that lets you save your games and ultimately print them out on your PC). I'll report back on how it goes, but this looks like a real winner combo to me! -Roy. On December 14, 2000 at 09:37:04, Mark R. Anderson wrote: >On December 14, 2000 at 06:03:29, Georg Langrath wrote: > >Georg, > >Thanks for the warning! ... pretty appalling! I guess you can't expect much for >$30, but gee! > >I agree with you that the idea of an LCD chess unit would be great (I, for one, >would definitely buy a strong unit with an LCD display). I have a number of >chess programs and dedicated chess computers, but I would like an LCD unit to >play with on my long daily subway ride to and from work or for portability and >simplicity when I am traveling. I have a few peg models, but don't want to >bother with that (or risk losing the pieces) on a bus or subway. > >Recently, I have toyed with the idea of getting a Palm Pilot (the IIIxe) and >downloading Chess Genius on it (the version for Palm Pilot OS by Lang). Does >anyone know strong this program is on a Palm Pilot? > >Thanks, > >Mark Anderson > >>I read a review of Excalibur LCD chess on http://www.chesscafe.com/ >>There they gave an example of its playing: >>1. e4 c6 2. d3 e5 3. f4 Bb4+ 4. c3 exf4 >>In other word it gave away a bishop for a pawn. I asked them if that wasn’t on >>a handicap level. It was not! >>I am no strong chessplayer and don’t need a strong chessprogram, but this is the >>worst I ever seen. It doesn’t even look 1 move forward. It is as a bad joke. >>I think that LCD chess is a good idea, but where did they found a miserable >>program like this? >> >>Georg
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