Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 17:18:03 01/02/03
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On January 02, 2003 at 13:21:26, Art Basham wrote: >White (Marshall, 1900) played BxP...d3xg6 and of course went on to win.. > >[D]rn1qr1k1/pbp2pb1/1p4p1/3p4/3P4/2NBPN2/PPQ2PP1/R3K2R w - - 0 1 > >My old Novag found BxP in 5 min. 38 sec. >my Super Novag found it in 2 min. 10 sec. >and now my new Novag Sapphire II (thanks to Mike Byrne and eBay) >finds it in less than a second at only 3 ply! > >Pretty good for a small, portable, handheld unit! > >I don't think I will be selling the Novag Sapphire very soon!...:-) Art, The Novag Sapphire II is one heck of a portable. I hope you have years of enjoyment with it. It always impressed me. Here's a well known endgame problem that is not solvable by any current Palm program in < 5 minutes. The Pocket PC's do get this one right very fast. [d]8/k7/3p4/p2P1p2/P2P1P2/8/8/K7 w - - 0 1; bm Kb1 Michael Byrne
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