Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:32:50 10/21/01
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On October 21, 2001 at 15:33:35, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Hi Chris:
>There are not dead products as much there are customers interested in putting a
>hand into them. I have every top-notch chess software available, including
>yours, and nevertheless I will be, probably, one of the guys that will get the
>Star thing.
Naturally there are people like you, and like me, but we are not in a sufficient
number to make the device a commercially viable thing.
>Why? maybe you will ask.
>Well, call it idiocy if you want, but we are not only chess guys, but collectors
>and children with a bias towards flashy, new material things. The pleasure that
>a new machine can give with its own phisical design, pieces, smell, lights, wood
>or plastic surfaces, etc, all the sensory experience I mean, surpasses any thing
>that a new software can give to us running once again in the same computer and
>in the same screen with almost always the same ugly or uninteresting flat square
>with the same buttons, graphics, etc.
I was not talking about yet another PC software.
I was talking about handheld computers. They bring a similar experience as
dedicated chess computers, with all the flash and physical touch (you can have
them in your pocket all the time).
They are going to be stronger than the Star Sapphire, with more features and can
also do other things. They make the Star Sapphire look like it is not worth
it... Just in my opinion.
>Chess is not only playing chess, I guess.
That's why handhelds renew the pleasure of chess. You should try one, it's
exactly the kind of things you like (as far as I can tell).
Christophe
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