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Subject: Re: Exercise: build your dream dedicate computer chess

Author: Ismenio Sousa

Date: 18:29:13 12/10/04

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On December 10, 2004 at 21:16:27, Steve B wrote:

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>
>1)Robotic arm as a seperate attachment to set up the pieces and place them into
>the box after the game is over
>2)full instruction manual built into the computer which could be accessed with
>the player able to hear the instructions
>3)upgrades to the chess computer available through a serial port which could
>then be connected to the PC and downloaded via the internet directly into the
>chess computer
>
Those are "must have ones"!

>Ron Nelson the inventor of the Chess Challenger and also the first to use the
>voice chip in a chess computer told me once he always wanted to be able to have
>the computer actually "see" the opponent ..he only managed to employ the motion
>detectors used in the Eyeball Chesster Phantom

That's pretty cool! We always learn something from your posts!

Stretching a little bit - I would add a retractable organic screen like some of
those still in prototype stage - the computer would display the image of a face
and the AI program would make it look at you and simulate expressions based on
the progress of the game. Some would find it creepy but I think it would be neat
to see that!

Ismenio



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