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Subject: Re: Novag "Star" Sapphire?

Author: Ray Rogers

Date: 09:19:21 12/19/03

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On December 19, 2003 at 11:09:57, J. C. Boco wrote:

>
>>
>>Thanks again. I have LCD Chess (gift last Christmas - don't like it one bit)
>>and Talking version (better all round but but still diabolical move entry and
>>noises etc). I picked up a Toshiba Pocket PC cheap and run Genius (Oct 2003
>>version) but but would need to take charger and/or Battery Extender with me!
>>Anyway: I'm going on holiday not Training Camp! "Give us a break" - I'm not THAT
>>good. Cheers.
>
>You could give the Palm 105 a try.  It uses 2 AAA batteries, and they last
>probably for 25+ hours.  There is also a backlight for playing games at night.
>Not a top of the line palm, of course, but you can probably pick one up for $60
>or so and have a great chess machine with great battery life and great graphics.
>
>I run ChessTiger on mine.

Thanks. I may just do that. I have a regular Saturday morning breakfast with a
couple of friends when we look over (with the help of Genius) our latest
masterpieces. It's great for that. I just hope that Novag or Saitek/Mephisto can
rival this setup in the future.



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