Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 17:43:35 08/29/05
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Tstantsa, The Excalibur unit that you own is quite weak but then so are you. On the other hand, playing this mediocre unit at level 13(about 25 sec/mov) will allow you to experiment with unsound sacrifices and daring play in a timely fashion. As you know, there is a take back button that allows you to replay and experiment with variations. Our Godfather, Fernando Villegas, is always complaining that he loses to today's handheld and PC chess programs. I have told him to obtain your Excalibur machine so that he could again taste sweet victory. If you want to lose then get Shredder 9 and play it on an AMD 64 machine running at 3800 MHz with 2 GB of RAM. TJ PS I enjoy the Petrov defense against the little Excalibur unit. It usually falls for the unsound pawn capture and horribly misplays, going down a knight in the opening. You can program it to avoid this faux pas but then the fun of chess is experimenting with a position and winning by a variety of clever play. PS2 The Excalibur LCD Chess and Checkers has one redeeming feature. The three AAA alkaline batteries last for hundreds of games. Keep the unit. On August 29, 2005 at 20:00:39, Tsantsa Ogrady wrote: >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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