Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:26:33 06/01/03
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On June 01, 2003 at 18:55:35, Jay Kasick wrote: >ANytime u see a decent tableop on there, its worth going for. How come u see >hoards of classics and old chess challengers but like no mach 3/4 or any >designer series??? The "wood" sets are keepers for sure. I have a Genius 68030 33Mhz (Wood - Auto Sensory) purchased right here from ICD. A great machine that still plays better than the 200 Mhz Ipaq. It's Genius 2, that is slightly faster than an old 433 PC running, perhaps a tad slower than a 466 machine. The first Pentiums running Genius 2 were clearly faster. In fact, it was the Pentium that led to the demise of the dedicated chess units - they were too hot to use in the chess board and yet were noticably more powerful. Thus the stronger chess machines were now PC's and the professional market wanted the stongest machines. No one is no making the wood units anymnore and those that have them are unwilling part with them that often. Most of the wood units were sold in Europe ad there is a fairly robust market for used wood units. http://search-desc.ebay.de/search/search.dll?GetResult&SortProperty=MetaHighestPriceSort&query=schachcomputer&srchdesc=y&shortcut=4&ht=1&category1=233&combine=y&st=2 Michael Byrne
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