Author: Didzis Cirulis
Date: 00:23:03 02/26/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 21:20:41, Chris Kantack wrote: >On February 25, 2002 at 11:01:49, Didzis Cirulis wrote: > >>---game removed for brevity------> >>The more I play the easier it becomes... >> >>Didzis >> >>P.S. But my kids love it! They play and lose... :-) > >Well many of us kids (even us not so young kids in their 40's) love it too. >(Fact is, I've yet to win at level 12 or above.) > >Didzis is obviously a very strong player. Rated around 2000 Elo according to an >email he sent me earlier. Excalibur LCD Chess is not for him obviously. It >never was intended for players of his strength. > >Some of us are very lucky I guess. Despite all our book reading, studying, and >practicing...many of us are still stuck with an Elo strength of 1000 to 1400 or >so. > >Fortunately for us weaker players, we don't need to spend a lot of money on a >chess computer. The Excalibur handhelds are more than strong enough for us. > >If anyone writes to me and tells me that they have an Elo strength of 1700 or >more...I'll be the first to steer them towards buying a Palm (or PocketPC) with >the appropriate software. (Chess Tiger or ChessGenius) > >However, for the 85% of the chess playing world, we are more than satisfied with >our Excaliburs as we find them to be extremely challenging and fun to use. >Shoot, they even put up a damn good fight against far stronger computer >programs. Time and time again, I've seen my Touch Chess unit go well into the >middlegame (against a far stronger program) with superior position and/or >material. (But then it blows it in the endgame.) > >Chris >http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm I love it too. ;-) It is perfect for its class. In fact plays better than 90% of my friends and still requires some attention. It does exactly what I want it to do - sits in my pocket always ready to play! I take it everywhere I go, playing whenever I have time. I am playing it right now. :-) If I want a stronger opponent, I can play my tabletop chess computer, which is 2150 strong, or suffer merciless defeats from PC monsters like Century, Tiger or Fritz. But I can't put them into my pocket (for such a small price) or play while sitting in a boring quarterly meeting of my Company. Didzis
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