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May 03, 2005
Chess Clock
Today I went searching online for a chess clock. What I found was a market opportunity. Not that I'm going to do anything about it.
Postulate 1: Serious chess players tend to not be concerned with appearances.
Axiom 1: People who make chess clocks are chess players.
Ergo: All chess clocks are ugly.
Now there are 1001 beautiful chess sets, in any style you want. Modern or classic elegance, marble, glass, aluminum, cherry wood, you can even get the pieces in any shape imaginable. You can probably find one where the pawns are a bust of John C. Riley.
But nobody makes a chess clock with a LED or gas discharge display. Just ugly LCDs like an oversize $5 Kmart wristwatch. Yes, the device has 24 chess timing modes and can compute Mars explorer trajectories or whatever, but it's U G L Y.
Posted by Jeff at May 3, 2005 12:16 PM
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