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Subject: Trivia Pursuit.. Vol 2 no.5

Author: steven blincoe

Date: 18:23:35 05/17/04


We reach the mid point of the second series with this  medium difficlty puzzler
about chess playing Robots

Self moving chess computers(Robots)have long held the fascination of  not just
chess players but of the general public as well
the first Robot was released for sale  in 1982 by Novag and used a "claw" like
hand to grasp and release the pieces

Milton Bradley soon followed suit with its version of the Robot in 1983

they released a robot that moved the pieces by electro magnetic induction from
beneath the playing surface
this proved to be wildly succesful and was the model used for each and every
chess playing Robot released..even to this day

they released the computer under three different names depending on the country
it was marketed in

each computer was exaclty the same except for the name on the face of the
computer

please indicate all three names..
Steve




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