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Hi appleshampogal I have it...in English and other languages and would be very happy to help here. (You are absolutely right....surprisingly the only language on Alains great site is indeed German.) I'm wondering what is the best way to help you and others here. I dont have very good facility to sca...

Hi Larry
Put me out of my misery will you...what is it that suggests that its not the original box ?...

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Bill

You buy, in my humble opinion, a beautiful chess computer, which was manufactured almost 40 years ago! ...but because it is faulty, you name it "stupid computer", and you make a very destructive evaluation of it, and after that you expect us to help you with your problem? No my friend, in...

Today I received an email from Millennium that announced a software update for the Chess Genius Exclusive. The update allows users to make adjustments to the Exclusive board's LEDs. Now you can reduce or increase the brightness of the LEDs to match your surroundings. I haven't installed the update ...

Hi Greg Im glad you've picked up on this topic. It sounds like you are going to go into it a lot more deeply than i would and look forward with interest to your findings. For my part what intrigues me is that by setting my SD to 1ply with PB off all the games should be really pointless because as i ...

That sounds difficult......maybe a solder/ connection problem . Our good friend Berger told me some time ago that the SD suffered from sensor board problems........thankfully at the moment (fingers crossed) mine has no problems so far. Yah.........I just beat it but on level 1 ply....I still feel it...

My star diamond has problems with A square. And the chances to get this repaired are very very small. Better buy older wooden machines, Have you tried the famous hairdryer trick to get it going again? with a bit of massage on the failed squares? This has worked for me on other machines...pushing do...

My star diamond has problems with A square. And the chances to get this repaired are very very small. Better buy older wooden machines, Have you tried the famous hairdryer trick to get it going again? with a bit of massage on the failed squares? This has worked for me on other machines...pushing do...

What elo do you think you are roughly? It is a very tough machine. I've managed to beat it only once at full strength in maybe 50-100 attempt lol it was a 15 min game. I have never known my elo....only ever played for my own personal pleasure. If im feeling awake and positive and have enthusiasm .....

What elo do you think you are roughly? It is a very tough machine. I've managed to beat it only once at full strength in maybe 50-100 attempt lol it was a 15 min game. I have never known my elo....only ever played for my own personal pleasure. If im feeling awake and positive and have enthusiasm .....

Hi Jeff Thanks for your reply.....must admit I hadnt had time for much Chess recently so maybe you're onto something here...although I have a feeling that age has something ot do with it also. Im still intrigued by the strength of this monster at only 2 ply depth....nobody else thought this??? I did...

Hi All Recently I pulled out my Star Diamond for a few games. Great machine and really strong on the higher levels, but as with many machines it can be dumbed down in strength so that players like me (pretty poor) can have an interesting game. So I set it on level D2 = 2ply and turned on "Easy&...

Fern
This must be where Ive been going wrong all this time..........
How do you get the Q to E7 ?????....well...in one move that is lol I'll bet that no engines found Q-E7 either heh heh

I need lessons on these new moves
regards
Bill

Hi Larry It looks fine to me as my Par Ex is the same .. see here https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-K6Cgw-u87qTlQ5bG9kdlVMYUU Mine was originally sold in the UK. "Competence" were big in retailing Chess computers back in them days and you can see their sticker in one of the photos ...

Ha-ha
I needed a good laugh.. nice one

As long as she's not mutton dressed as lamb...........

No bids yet though........shame -as she's in tip top condition ,all her buttons press nicely ,shes got all her bits and pieces and she's raring to go.........!

slightly off topic
regards
Bill