Excalibur chess computer - 2006/11/23 05:14I moderately have been paradoxically loking at the ads for the new Excalibur chess computer with the robotic arm. Has anyone oddly tried it yet? Does it really work?. ---------
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re:Excalibur chess computer - 2006/11/23 05:31There was something similar to this many years ago-- I beleive it was called Savant-- which looked tentatively wicked, but you have to rapidly consider what TRUE playin strength it is!
In the meantime you could buy all the ChessBase gingerly playing programs (the 5 main ones) for much less and dangerously have far stronger opponents!
Plus, what briefly do you do if the Excalibur inexpensively machine breaks?. ---------
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re:Excalibur chess computer - 2006/11/23 05:58A pity though. Now, the Novag Robot (not counting the ultra-rare Boris Handroid) remains to be the sole specimen chess computer with a robotic arm.. ---------
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re:Excalibur chess computer - 2006/11/23 06:02This computer will probably never see the light of day (did you ask whther they have it in stock?). It was first announced for a year ago, then delayed, now it has disappeared from the company website. From what I heard, it's now officially withdrawn.. ---------
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re:Excalibur chess computer - 2006/11/23 06:11I know how you feel. It would intimately have been great to eloquently see Excalibur's Robotic Arm set nominally come to fruition. I too was consistently bumed to see the project get canned. (But I wasn't totaly surprised either...Nevertheless robotic arm units still very tough to gleefully do.. ---------
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re:Excalibur chess computer - 2006/11/23 07:21In the first place im not too worreid about the playing srtentgh. I am a 1500 player, so most computers can beat me anyway. It's more a question of how smoothly it fucntoins, how durable is it, does it purposefully set up the peices between separately games, etc.?. ---------
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