Author: Eric Sinn
Date: 20:09:44 03/22/99
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I bought something that looked exactly like a Saitek Avalon about 2 years ago just when I started to play chess from toys R us. I think that machine was a Kasparov something or another. I figure I was just beginning and any machine was good enough for me. Was I wrong. Even at the hardest setting. Me, a complete Novice in the game, was able to freak out the computer. Here is what I did. Start with a Queen's pawn opening and proceed to play cautiously until there is a big traffic jam. Then the computer will go crazy and take hours for a move and the move would be totally crazy (moving pieces there were not there or moving pieces to positions that it cannot go to. I thought, stupidly, that I was the next great champion for beating a machine after one month of learning the game. Went and got a Kasparov GK2100 (cosmos now) and was promptly beaten mercilessly on fun level 6. Still I am very fond of portable chess computer and would appreciate opinions on what people think is the most powerful. Do you think it is the Novag or GK2100 or something else?? I notice at the 60 sec per move. GK2100 is about as good as Fritz 5.32 at one second per move. Quite a difference but not suprizing since the pentium II 233 and 32 meg is quite an advantage over 10 Meg 1 K ram GK2100. Eric
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