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You get amazing features and powerful chess play packed into this top of the line Novag chess computer!

Lovely Shishamwood chess pieces have implanted electronic chips letting the computer recognize your moves as you simply slide the pieces to make your move. There’s no need to press the squares! The advanced autosensory system just recognizes each move.

You’ll easily read the computers move shown by LCD and LED’s. Move the computer’s chess piece and you can make your next move!

Travelling has been made a snap with the convenient NOVAG travel case you can tote with you as easy as any laptop.

Even if you aren’t a chess master yourself, you can enjoy the powerful ELO 2320 Master level capabilites when you want a strong chess computer to play against or to help you analyse games you’ve played.

128 levels let you back down on the levels to easier playing settings so you can win games or at least have a chance!

You can play an amazing 250 hours with 6C batteries! Or you can buy the optional AC Adapter (see accessories).

Enjoy great features like

> scoring
> LCD information screen
> training modes
> opening book coaching
> 112 move takeback
> 18 ply move search
> solves most 8 move mates
> 16 integrated training games
> integrated chess clock
> autoplay: computer vs itself
> Hints
> Referee mode
> Random generator
> Customize, setup position mode
> and much more!!

Specifications

Runs on 6 “C” batteries
Optional A/C Adapter accessory available
Measurements: 14 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ x 1 3/8″

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By Lance Winslow 

We need more kids studying science and math and we need more non-linear thinkers amongst us if we are to propel the United States into the future. However, we must also understand that to achieve this we must spark the interest in the next generation to want to use their minds to think and problem solve. This is where the game of chess comes in.

Chess gets children to think and chess tournaments help them compete. Not long ago I read about the success of NASA’s robotic contests and how those were getting more students to become interested in Math and Science and also future careers as engineers. The public relations for robotic contests have been robust and have certainly served the common good.

Likewise, public relations for chess tournaments are as important as public relations for spelling bees. By promoting chess tournaments rather than lets say poker tournaments will bring awareness to the need for a greater increase in intellectual thought.

When artificial intelligence versus a human chess tournament player was very popular it brought a lot of good will to the chess tournament industry. Many folks reveled in the concept of man VS Machine and it spurred on the game of chess. But now things are lacking and we need more public relations in chess tournaments. Please consider this in 2006.

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Chess Explained: The Nimzo-Indian - Wells

A New Approach to Understanding the Chess openings

A New Approach to Understanding the Chess openings

Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.

The Nimzo-Indian is one of the most important of all chess openings, and popular at all levels of play. The Nimzo has provided the backbone of the opening repertoire of a large portion of the world’s top players over the last 80 years. It is considered a fully reliable defence, and provides winning chances for both sides as it leads to structures of great strategic variety and complexity.

Key battlegrounds in the Nimzo include the blockade, IQP positions, the handling of unbalanced pawn-structures, and the struggle between bishop and knight. All these topics are covered in depth in this book, and an understanding of them will prove valuable in a much broader context than just the Nimzo-Indian.

About the Author:
Peter Wells is a grandmaster from England who regularly competes in international tournaments and team events. He was runner-up in the British Championship in 1991, 1999 and 2004, and qualified for the knockout stages of FIDE’s world championship in 1997. Wells is a much-acclaimed writer, noted for his work on both opening play and middlegame strategy. He has a wealth of experience as a trainer, including acting as a second for British super-GMs Luke McShane and Michael Adams

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