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Subject: Re: Touch Chess by Excalibur handheld. Tiny review.

Author: Alan Grotier

Date: 10:49:09 05/05/05

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On May 05, 2005 at 13:21:06, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>After getting dissapointed with my Palm T3, uncapable of giving me battery life
>enough to end just one game with any of the row of great programs I have there,
>I took the heroic measure of purchasing a relatively cheap handheld unit powered
>with simple AAA batteries, Touch Chess by Excalibur, with perhaps the best
>program to date produced by Ron Nelson.
>And I have been happily surprised.
>The unit is lot stronger that you can imagine. Not like Saphire or perhaps Ruby,
>but strong enough to give you more than a decent game. Looking at it over my
>shoulder, I essayed some daring atacks that finished with a lost game. He knows
>how to defend. He knows how to move the King in endings. He knows how to push
>the pawns. He can beat you if only you go too fast for a killing.
>I dare to say it is a 2000 thing, at least 1900.
>Or perhaps without my knowledge I have lost 500 points of my previous elo.
>In any case,  batteries does not exhaust in the middle of the flight...
>Fdo

            Fdo,
                 Hello.The above is very interesting.
                 What would you say about navigating around to
                 get the various options and levels etc..........Alan



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