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Subject: Re: Whither SmartBoard

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 14:15:36 02/23/98

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On February 22, 1998 at 17:33:44, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>ICD and U.S. Chess offered to pay Brehn a fee to release us from
>the case, and we agreed not to sell the Smartboard after July 1st.
>The fee, ironically enough, was less than 25% of what our attorneys
>had charged us up to that point!
>
>Regards, Steve

Whew! Sounds like a legal quagmire if I ever heard of one.

Fortunately there is a new piece-recognition style board out for
or from the Fritz machine people that should be interfacable to others.
Unlike the Novag universal board which I believe does not have piece
recognition.

My main need is to get one of these so I can interface it to my
own program since I am getting tired of entering all the moves via
keyboards.

Since you "agreed not to sell the Smartboard after July 1st",
is that July 1 of 1997 or July 1 of 1998? If July 1 of 1998, could
I pick up the phone and call 800-645-4710 to buy it now?

And thanks for all the detail. What a shame that such a good
technology gets so bogged down in this kind of swamp.

--Stuart



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