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Seeing as you were unimpressed by my other chess computer thread. I have thought of you over 2000 players, or anyone who wants the best! 🙂

Here you are; It costs £803! but you can get it for less... The computers is the samsung galaxy s4 apparently at 1.9ghz its the fastest phone. Add fritz / shredder and you should be at 2700 elo i'd guess.

It comes with a DGT board too - but robbie the king has a five pointed star not a cross!

http://store.three.co.uk/Samsung_Galaxy_S4 1.9Ghz
£37 pm / £550

http://chessbase-shop.com/en/products/pocket_fritz_4
50 Eu / £40

http://www.shredderchess.com/chess-info/features/pocket-shredder-features.html
20 Eu / £15

DGT Board - with 'hand' feature
http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/chess-X2035.htm
£198 / Bargain

http://shop.chess.co.uk/
London Chess And Bridge - who don't sell the above but do have a range of saiteks (incl mine) and lots of books.

http://www.hiarcs.com/iphone-chess.htm
for iphones don't know how much - but a good prog.

What do you think of this hi tec ness? want one, have one already?

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Originally posted by e4chris
Seeing as you were unimpressed by my other chess computer thread. I have thought of you over 2000 players, or anyone who wants the best! 🙂

Here you are; It costs £803! but you can get it for less... The computers is the samsung galaxy s4 apparently at 1.9ghz its the fastest phone. Add fritz / shredder and you should be at 2700 elo i'd guess.

It comes ...[text shortened]... ch - but a good prog.

What do you think of this hi tec ness? want one, have one already?
I have a galaxy s2, how powerful is that in ELO terms?

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I have a galaxy s2, how powerful is that in ELO terms?
I was looking for a site to tell me, pocket fritz went into a tournament - lost to Adams, a draw with Leko who is 2737 so... http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1170273

You can have one of these for 3000 Eu - but it would be funny if a samsung galaxy could beat it and it might,
http://www.chesscomputer.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27%3Arevelation-chess-board&catid=14%3Atable-top-wood&lang=en

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Originally posted by e4chris
Seeing as you were unimpressed by my other chess computer thread. I have thought of you over 2000 players, or anyone who wants the best! 🙂

Here you are; It costs £803! but you can get it for less... The computers is the samsung galaxy s4 apparently at 1.9ghz its the fastest phone. Add fritz / shredder and you should be at 2700 elo i'd guess.

It comes ...[text shortened]... ch - but a good prog.

What do you think of this hi tec ness? want one, have one already?
If a strong comp is what you want, go with a desktop comp with a 3 GHz, 4/6 core processor. It would be cheaper as well as stronger.

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
If a strong comp is what you want, go with a desktop comp with a 3 GHz, 4/6 core processor. It would be cheaper as well as stronger.
I used to, until it broke have a 2.4 ghz pc and i bought that processor as it was the best i could afford then mainly so it would play good chess 🙂

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saw the samsung s4 in the shop today it has a big screen, its to big to be a phone i think. but would make a kick ass computer if fritz or shredder will load - i guess they will?

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has anyone got pocket fritz?? is it any good?

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I managed to sell that chess set to myself!! Have bought it, is on its way 🙂

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seeing as i'm promting chess sets 🙂

a few nices ones on here
http://www.chessmazeinternational.com/

more of a grain in the wood then the ones on chessbaron, but the chessbaron ones seem very well priced. I think you could buy one and sell it for twice the price on ebay with a 'creative' write up - they look good!

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'taurus' a polite word yes! 🙂 - chess - yes it exists!
http://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/tchess/screenshots/216646.jpg

download here!?!?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tchess/

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I must say, gloves off, the arrogance of chess players who think computers rubbish astounds me - my £10 one at 2min per move would be graded higher then you would like to think on here.

I went to Holland a while back and found a chess café - I was very stoned but a kind dutch guy gave me a game and won very easily, looked at me like a bit of a fool, I was 🙂 but I asked him if he liked computers and he said 'no they are rubbish' and I briefly looked at him like an idiot - rubbish are you mad? didn't say that just smiled. But it amazes me how people think they can out calc a calculator - tricking a chess computer with opening tricks is not the same as beating one in an open game. Very few can...

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Originally posted by e4chris
I must say, gloves off, the arrogance of chess players who think computers rubbish astounds me - my £10 one at 2min per move would be graded higher then you would like to think on here.

I went to Holland a while back and found a chess café - I was very stoned but a kind dutch guy gave me a game and won very easily, looked at me like a bit of a fool, I was ...[text shortened]... computer with opening tricks is not the same as beating one in an open game. Very few can...
There was a fun thread on here where a guy tried to give 'one of those endgames that a machine can't play worth beans'. And for humans it was supposed to be an easy win. Only trouble was, it turned out not to be easy at all. Then a bunch of people started analyzing and googling it. Turned out that it really was only a draw and the machine was right all along. 😛

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