Author: Tsantsa Ogrady
Date: 17:00:39 08/29/05
I am not a very good chess player ok? My dad taught me when I was young but I never developed as a player like he had when he was young. I'm now 31 and have suddenly gotten the urge to play more. So I picked up Chessmaster for the Xbox(which if you're in my shoes, the tutorials are great fun and learning), I'm playing email chess and I recently picked up a handheld chess game. Its an Excalibur LCD Chess & Checkers. (model 375-2, not that it matters!) The problem is that its quite cheap. It cost $15 and feels like it cost 10% of that to produce. I really don't like the screen as the contrast is always too much or too little. The buttons are touchy....yada yada yada...Anyways its cheap and I don't care much for the screen. My question is if anyone knows of one that has a nicer screen. I am hoping for a lighted color lcd screen but one can only get so lucky! I don't want to buy a gameboy or a PSP. The one thing I like about this handheld is that it loads up the current game in about a grand total of 1 second. If I had a gameboy or PSP it takes about a full minute or two to turn on. I know that seems petty, but I have the handheld for work. Where I work sometimes I can only get about 5 minutes to play a move or 2 before a boss comes around, really. It sucks. So all that loading time is counter-productive to what I want. So, any really good handheld chess games out there? Also, besides Searching for Bobby Fischer, what are some movies that chess is central to the story line...Or even some good documentaries. I am really getting into it, and want to soak up as much as I can from whatever sources are available! My ultimate goal is to do something I have never done: Beat my father at chess!!!!!
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