Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:33:13 06/01/03
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On June 01, 2003 at 19:26:33, Mike Byrne wrote: >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 I might add that buying on Germany aEbay is not easy from the US -- most of the sellers I have contacted are not interested in shipping to the US. Should you find one, be prepared to spend around $60-$70 for shipping to the US for the wood units.
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