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Novag Star Opal, Intermediate Electronic Chess Computer

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About this product

The Novag Star Opal is truly portable and versatile with an easy-to-use sensory chessboard, and a unique move indicator to register all your moves. The extensive 8500 move built-in master opening book ensures a lively, and varied game. It also saves unfinished games in its memory allowing you to resume play at anytime. Novag Star Opal has a hint function, as well as a training function to help strengthen your chess game. The Novag Star Opal has a strong program capable of solving up to mate in 6.

Enjoy the following features:

Estimated rating of 1900 ELO, or 2200 USCF
Magnetic chess pieces adhere to the chess board. Chessmen will stay in place while traveling.
16 LED's - 1 small red light on the left side, and bottom of the chessboard indicates where to move chess pieces.
The SENSOR TECHNOLOGY chessboard makes it a joy to play - make your move by gently pressing the chess pieces on the "from square", and pick up the piece, and move it to the "to square", and press down.
Strong 16K program working with 768 Byte RAM
128 levels of play - Choose between training, tournament, and problem solving levels
Extensive opening book containing more than 8500 halfmoves and fascinating middle and end game strategies.
1 or 2 player mode with scoring, hints and analysis
2 player mode will referee 2 human players to make certain both players follow rules of chess
Switch sides with computer during game
Computer can play itself
Saves game in memory for future use automatically when switched off
Take back move function (25 half moves) allows you to experiment by taking back past moves
Solves problems up to mate in 6
Hint function will suggest a move to you if you need help
Move function will force the computer to immediately make the best move it has found so far
Enter a special sequence of moves, i.e. a particular chess opening, or moves you found in a chess book
Includes instructions for the following languages; English