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Subject: Re: Excaliber Touch Chess

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 11:11:38 02/20/02

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On February 20, 2002 at 13:20:47, Bob Basham wrote:

>I was surprised to see that "Touch Chess" takes about 6 minutes to find this
>winning move for black -
>Qf2...!
>
>(The Novag portables have no problem with this move at all).
>
>Too bad we can not "check out" a new product before we buy it.. :-)
>
>[D]4rbk1/3Q1ppp/3p4/3P4/3q4/B7/P5PP/5R1K b - -


That's most unfortunate! Excaliber isn't known for producing strong stand alone
units, in fact their known for the opposite! Terrible really as they tried to
fill in the mass-market void a several years after Fidelity was purchased by
Hegner&Glasser, (Mephisto) back in the late summer of 1989.


Terry



You could check with Steve of ICD for the playing strengths of these machines.

• Re: Excaliber Touch Chess Didzis Cirulis 23:56:05 02/20/02
• Re: Excaliber Touch Chess Chris Kantack 19:04:33 02/20/02
  • Re: Excaliber Touch Chess Terry McCracken 19:39:41 02/20/02
    • Re: Excaliber Touch Chess Terry McCracken 20:05:37 02/20/02
      • Re: Excaliber Touch Chess Chris Kantack 21:32:35 02/21/02

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