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Subject: Re: Ches "Pros" Arrogance According to Oscar Wilde

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 12:02:05 06/11/04

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On June 11, 2004 at 13:25:09, steven blincoe wrote:

>>I managed to create a board which looks like a Mephisto Bavaria
>>(a dedicated unit I never afforded to myself).
>
>
>a truely magnificant chess board it is,with full piece recognition
>and a with a nice extra touch of two "capped "pawns to be used as extra
>Queens
>
>of course DGT actually provides two extra queens for promotions..
>
>but Tasc did not include  the extra Queens or even two "wild card " pawns which
>always annoyed me
>if someone is going to cough up over $1500 for a Tasc R30 then the very least
>Tasc could have done was throw in a little extra trimming such as the Queens or
>Pawns
>sometimes its the little things that matter as well as the larger things
>Steve
>

Thanks for the info, Steve.

Buying Mephisto Bavaria was never a real option for me:
when it was new it costed more than a year of my salary IIRC...
(No kidding.)
So I bought Mephisto Europa...
Communism impoverished us, but that's another story.
Thank God, it's over for 15 years but I lived the first 30 years
of my life in it.
Yes, without dedicated chess computers :-(

Best wishes
Mihaly




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