Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 20:05:37 02/20/02
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On February 20, 2002 at 22:39:41, Terry McCracken wrote: >On February 20, 2002 at 22:04:33, Chris Kantack wrote: > >>On February 20, 2002 at 14:11:38, Terry McCracken wrote: >> >>> >>>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. >> >>To each their own. Touch Chess is my favorite handheld and I find it more than >>challenging enough. True, Excalibur handhelds are no match for far stronger >>programs like Chess Tiger and ChessGenius. But heck, they provide very >>inexpensive chess computers that can still easily beat 85% of the world's >>players. >> >>I probably average around 8 to 10 letters each week from extremely satisfied >>users of Excalibur products. (Almost all of them in reference to LCD Chess or >>Touch Chess as "handheld computer chess" is the main focus of my web site.) >>Many of the letters I've recently received come from people who own multiple >>Excalibur chess computers. The fact that Excalibur gets so much repeat >>business says a lot for the company. >> >>(As for letters from dissappointed Excalibur customers, I've gotten only 3 such >>letters in the past year.) >> >> >>Chris Kantack >>http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm > >Well Excaliber did not fill the void, for strong chess players in the wake of >losing Fidelity Electronics and programmer Dan Spracklen. > >I see this as a loss, and that Excaliber only cares and caters to the mass >market weekend players. > >I doubt very much, regardless of features and quality of design that Excaliber >produces a machine that plays over 1500. > >That's ok for most people, but many wanted master rated and above standalones >and that went up in smoke when Fidelity left the market, and out of the ashes >Excaliber arouse, a step backwards in time. > >Terry Please don't take this personally, it's how I feel about the loss of a progressive company (Fidelity)just coming into their own and then consumed by Hegner & Glasser their main rival, ending an era in computer chess. Terry
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