Author: Steve B
Date: 06:14:52 02/04/05
All in all only 10 variations of chess playing Robots were released for sale to the buying public the term Robot as it is used by Collectors is any "self-moving" dedicated computer as the term implies ,the computer will make its own move on the board without player involvement below is a nice link which contains a good pictorial essay on 8 of the 10 Robots released the first one shown is the legendary Boris Handroid which never made it to market as the company making it went out of business before its release for the sake of completeness i have included photos of the two Robots not mentioned in the link: http://www.schachcomputer.at/schachroboter.htm in addition the Milton Bradley Phantom: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=9f24.jpg&.src=ph and the Excalibur Mirage(Marble): http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=7d8d.jpg&.src=ph of the 10 Robots only 4 are considered Rare by Collectors The Novag Robot Adversary The Milton Bradley Phantom The Fidelity Chesster Phantom(model 6124) and the Excalibur Mirage(Marble) Robo-Regards Steve
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