Author: William Kerr
Date: 17:51:19 09/22/03
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On September 22, 2003 at 13:25:52, Gerald Grimsley wrote: >Is it a quality machine essentially as advertised? >Thanks >Gerald I bought one awhile back. Its bewteen 2x and 3x faster than Novag Sapphire II which I also have. It has one or more errors in its book, meaning that if you play certain opening book moves (one that I know for shure) the Star Diamond will display 'ERROR'. I also noted that if you set up a chess position for it to analyze with white to move and white is in-check (and can move out of check) the Star Diamond will display 'ERROR' and erase the board (erasing the board is a nice touch). Its quality is fair. The plastic chess pieces are pretty cheap. It interfaces well to a PC using Hypertermanal. The zippered carrying pouch for the chess board is very nice. It plays good chess for a dedicated unit. I played it against Ruffian 1.0.1 on an Athlon running 1.7 Ghz. Ruffian spanked Star Diamond (no suprize here since Ruffian is running on a machine thats more than 85 times faster). Bill
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