Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 11:57:03 12/17/01
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ICE (Yasser's Inside Chess), sold me one of the last TASC Board's with the R-30 module included for $600.00. It orriginally sold for around $1300.00. I've had it for about 8 months now, and I'm pleased as I can be with its performance & features. One of the things I like about the new Fritz7 & Shredder 6 is that they include drivers for this board. (Even though I never plug the board into the computer, just the R-30 module, I still like knowing I have this option!). To your question, "If you actually paid, say, $12,000 for a chess computer way back in the stone age, would you be willing to part with it for a couple hundred bucks?" - My answer is this - In terms of how the technologie has advanced, just about any chess-playing software today will beat your program in the board. The value of your board is largely determined by how valued it was to you when you got it? - Did you get your money's worth at the time, and does the investment you made in it justify the money you spent on it, rather than on something else important at the time you bought it? Also, and this shouldn't be underestimated - You have a very important sentimental investment in this board, so selling it would be like selling a part of yourself! Larry S. Tamarkin Chess Software, hardware & book addict! On December 16, 2001 at 21:47:08, Robert C. Maddox wrote: >It wasn't that many years ago that you could pay over $10,000 for a >top-of-the-line Mephisto chess computer. (Or so I was told; I've never actually >seen a five-figure chess machine.) > >Those bad boys were reputed to play about as well as an IM, I think. > >I wonder how much one of those puppies would sell for today -- a used one, that >is. If you actually paid, say, $12,000 for a chess computer way back in the >stone age, would you be willing to part with it for a couple hundred bucks? ;^)
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