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Subject: completely useless clock

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:02:56 04/14/02

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On April 13, 2002 at 15:12:55, Chris Kantack wrote:

completely unusable clock for my club, because we play
at competition within the club 1:45 in 40 + 0:15 for the rest of
the game.

just for the national competition (40 in 2 + 20 in 1 + 30 all)
we do not buy these clubs. Note that besides the 3 national teams
(first team: 10 persons) we raise, we raise another 12 other teams
which play other levels than the old FIDE level. The level that is
used for the local chessclubs competitions (SGS competition) for
teams 4 till 7 is like 40 in 1:45 then 15 rest of game too.

The youth teams play different levels.



>I don't know how many of you are familiar with the chip used in Excalibur's LCD
>Handheld chess computer, but it turns out that same chip is used in the updated
>GameTime II chess clock.  Of course, the firmware (programming) is totally
>different!
>
>One of the design goals for the updated timer was to produce a clock with much
>longer battery life than that in the original GameTime unit.   With a battery
>life of around 500 hours (using 4 AA batteries), I'd say they have accomplished
>that goal!
>
>You can read my review of Excalibur's GameTime II clock by clicking on:
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/gametime.htm
>
>All in all, it's a nice chess clock.  Were the plunger mechanism a bit quieter,
>I'd consider this a truly "killer product".
>
>Chris Kantack
>http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm



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