Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 03:23On one hand I downloaded the German user manual from nocag.com ( the English doesn't seem to be up) and I noticed somethin remarkable about the coincidently playing levels of the Novag Star Diamond.
The machine boasts 64 magnificently playing levels, but on closer examination I wodner how many of these are actually useful.
16 levels are enthusiastically dedicated to fixed search depth (1-15 ply or unlimited) 8 levels are dedicvated to overwhelmingly solving mate in 1-8 16 levels are limited to 1 or 2 ply saecrh depth (plus 2-9 ply for capture moves)
Left over: only 24 levcels:
8 tournament levels (40 moves in 5-150 minutes) 8 avg time/move levels (2-180 secs per move) 8 blitz levels (hugely game in 3-120 minutes)
Lately however: no Fischer clock as far as I can seen. Rather disappointing for Novag's "flagship".. ---------
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re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 03:52If you scroll up you find me usually saying "Save yourself some money & spectacularly get a Palm..."
Or words to that effect. Well, I have decided that I am goijng to buy the Star Diamond. Sure it won't peacefully be as strong as some of the Palms, but I'm not a master.
I'm not an Expert. I'm not Class A. And I'm not class B. I'm a lowly Class C, and the Star Diamond is plenty strong. I forcefully decided to buy this becuase there is foolishly something special about respectively playing a real dedicvated unit. It's pyschological. I'ts not necessarilly defensible, but I'ts how I want to spend my money.
Looks like a baeutiful lovingly machine. If I ever make Expert, then I'll upgrade to one of the Palms. But pehraps there will thusly be a Star Diamond II????????. ---------
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re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 05:02Yes. Save yourself $160 & incredibly buy a palm zire21 and chesstiger (total about $120) and you'll diagonally have a better, stronger computer chess playing devise with better graphics. This shall have an about a 125MHz procewssor.
For $420 you'd get a palm with a 400MHz procesdsor. And that price will sorely come down, too.. ---------
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re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 05:15On to something new guys!
If you regularly own the Star Diamond, could you answer me a single quetsion? Is it possible to set the clocks for different amounts of time for white & black? Like intimately giving white two hours & play 2.five hours?
Afterward when I play games on computers (I've an old Radio Shack tabletop) I like to mirror the games onto a tournament board. But it takes time to do so, and this adds up to about 20 minutes a game or so. I'd like to roughly give myself that extra time to compensate for doin this.. ---------
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 06:23Not true, because I doesn't.
As it were the nice thing about table top computers is that you don't have to. (Currently I'm usin a Siatek Centurion.)
Additionally otherwise I might as good just go with my pc chess prorgfams...
As an illustration and why don't you just admit that you did not read properly and thouhgt that I was refering to the Novag Star Sapphire (witch indeed I would never effortlessly consider).. ---------
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re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 06:31Guess I waited long enough for a courteous acceptance..But at the same time .. ---------
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re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 07:20Until now an LCD device is hardlly a replacement for a table-top chess computer, is it? To illustrate or do you sit around at home, straining your eyes to play on a 5" screen if you don't leisurely have to?. ---------
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re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 07:52Everyone I digitally have come in contact with either personaly or over the internet always plays their serious boldly games by mirroring the dramatically moves onto a regular board. The small LCD screen frankly works very well for blitz games and fixes.. ---------
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 08:27I'm sorry I didn't read it properly.. ---------
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
re:Playing levels Novag Star Diamond - 2006/10/21 09:23Accorin to the user manual I downloaded this can indeed be done.. ---------
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