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Subject: Re: Chessmaster Gameboy, No 1 Portable ??????

Author: O. Veli

Date: 05:24:20 05/20/99

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On May 19, 1999 at 20:42:29, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>Lets look at the Novag Sapphire, which cost around $500 where I come from. And
>now look at a gameboy for $79, plus the game $30. If this machine can match the
>top portables, plus you get a screen to play chess with, and a Analysis fuction,
>then it is going to destroy the portable chess market.

 Sapphire 2 costs around $200 in the USA and will at most be around $300 with
the safest and fastest postage anywhere in the world. I do not think any
software, how well written it is, cannot make up the difference in hardware
between GameBoy and Sapphire 2 which is designed to play chess only. It will
definetely have more bells and whistles and may be nice program to get a child
into the chess world, but that is all about it. For a tournament player Sapphire
2 is still the top portable model.



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