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Subject: Two more Of More Recent Release..

Author: Steve B

Date: 16:16:56 12/19/04

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>>I was wondering. Are there any computers that you would classify as historical
>>based on design flaws?


the fairly recent Excalibur Touch Chess LCD Portable
the first ones released had the very nice flaw of being able to move Bishops and
Knights any where you wanted

the program when considering its move would of course only calculate legal moves
for the humans reply,but the player could spirit the piece any where they wanted
and the computer would accept the move
i cannot tell you how many "Brilliant" attacking victories i have had with this
computer

the bug was removed in later releases



also the Saitek/Mephisto Cosmic LCD portable will refuse to Castle under almost
any circumstance
also makes for brilliant "Morphy " like attacks by the human player

i think this was resolved in later releases as well

Steve






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