Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 06:14:40 02/24/98
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On February 24, 1998 at 02:12:29, Keith Ian Price wrote:
>On February 23, 1998 at 17:15:36, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>As far as I know, you can buy the Smartboard from Bert of Gambitsoft. He
>will pay the shipping from Germany. You will need to buy an inductor to
>raise the voltage to 220V. He was making noises about not selling it
>anymore, but probably could be persuaded to sell one.
>
>kp
Two points:
a) The only advantage to piece-recognition is for those
who often set up problems on their computer. However, boards
without the technology allow problems to be set up with the
extra step of having to inform the computer which piece is which.
The two disadvantages, historically, of piece recognition have
been a higher degree of failure and a higher expense.
b) ICD/Your Move sold more Smartbords, by far, than any other
company in the U.S., and our decision to stop selling the boards
was financially painful. However, it was the right thing to do
and no amount of persuasion would convince us to chnge that
policy. After all, it is nice to make the profit that the Smartboard
allowed but a bummer to know that three times that much could be
taken away (not to mention lawyer's fees) if we continued to sell
them.
-Steve
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