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Subject: Re: Good Test for Portables..... Novag Sapphire....only 3 ply..!

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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