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With a hundred or so chess software, chess computers on the market, which ones are the ones to go for? Here are expert best picks from Baron Turner, Chess Retailer for electronic chess, Fritz. The growth in the computer industry has brought advances in adjacent areas of computers - such as in chess. The result has transformed the chess industry. ChessBaron also has a presence on eSnips too for electronic chess - chess computers.

Pecking Order of Chess Computers

(Desktop chess computers + Handheld chess computers at chessbaron.co.uk)

First - we have to point the way to the chess sets, chess software product feed using GPS. Now - as an established chess retailer what's the deal with the need for a chess computer or chess software these days? There's an amazing demand for the awsome computing power they have. Our pick of the chess computer range is:

The Citrine: All singing, all dancing best of the lot and a price tag to show it. Novag have worked very hard to get this one right, and they've done a great job. One thing they've done which is significantly missing from others is to produce a great loooking wooden cabinet that can simply be used as a normal chess board if a human partner is available. Just unplug the two leads and there's a great looking wood board with real wood pieces to boot.

The Kasparov Expert: As well built as a German car, the Expert is a peg style computer that can be a hand held as well as a desktop category. The pieces pop into their holes and there is a sensor at the bottom of the hole that picks up the piece. Saitek should have made the pieces ot of metal, but they chose plastic - a bad choice but the only sub-optimal point of the whole machine - it's superb and an excellent example of computers in the genre

The Novag Star Ruby: In the hand held category the Ruby looks as if someone puked all over it and decided in some drunken stupor that it would be a good colour. (Novag - please change the colour. Even bright pink would be an improvement). But once we overcome the colouring, what we're left with is a kick-asss computer that is build like a tank and performs like an electronic Kasparov. Good graphics, backlight, contrast settings - a great hand held chess computer

The Carnelian II: If the Novag's price tag leaves you feeling dizzy, try the next class down. The cabinet is great - looks like wood, but is actually electronic and the pieces actually are wood with slight magnetisation to open the reed switch below the board surface. Very good.