I’ve had a DGT board the nice Bluetooth rosewood one with ebony Staunton pieces for a few years. Very bulky and hard to bring with you from A-B. It works decently well on Lichess through their program, not sure how well it works now with Chess com but I remember having it work temporarily and then stop working. It takes a whole DAY to charge the board as well but can connect to the DGT pi clock I have, but my insert is broken. I just ordered the chestnut air+ and am looking forward to having only 2 hour charge time and being able to bring with me to A-B I’ve had other E boards before and this one I hope suits my needs. The only thing I would change from what I can see is I would hope they make a magnetic wooden E board with notation and different piece options or colors like rosewood. If they make that small air and air+ magnetic so I can carry it on a plane I will be very impressed (no I don’t want the tiny barely magnetic Go board)
As usual thanks for the video. I own chessnut air but my son will find chess genius pro 2024 under tree for the reason you mentioned: I don't want him to be tied to a smartphone. The only complain is that it hasn't a space for the pieces and so they must be stored seprarterly from the board
Good choice - excellent chess computer. It's small enough to fit in most laptop protective covers and if you have side pockets, problem solved. I use a school satchel I bought for a couple of quid from a charity shop.
You could talk about the time answering move (I'm saying for all boards, detailed) How long does it take for the machine to move? I don't like to spend many time waiting for a machine And what about the difficulty? You know, sometimes they give so easy blunder... and sometimes play toooooo strong for my level
Regarding the wear and tear on using pressure squares to indicate pieces movements. The underlying mechanism uses reed switches which will almost never fail individually. What does happening is that the ribbon cable that connects the IC board to the chess board will suffer micro cracks due to natural daily changes in temperature - effect will be that individual rows or files with stop working. Takes a wee while - many years - before this effect kicks in, if ever, but all the chess computers will be using ribbon cables of some sort. Although the reed switches are old technology they are used in many modern devices because of the simplicity, cost and reliability. Really not a worry. However I do wonder about the more modern piece recognition technology as clearly you can get individual piece failure if embedded IC chips are used and if magnetic you will lose magnetism with time. That aside, I value the ability to switch around chess sets as you can add much grandeur to a chess computer by purchasing higher quality pieces - or even making your own!
It is the way chess computers started out, before the auto-sensory boards - works very well (and I still have one that works after 40+ years - press type).
Whoa! No mention of DGT Centaur? Standalone much better features than others mentioned here. Just confused you mention the $630 Chessnut EVO and no mention of standalone popular DGT Pegasus board that runs half the price of the Evo.
Have a question many others are probably wondering: Which if any e-board would you recommend for capturing a record of and later analyzing OTB blitz games?
The simplest thing to do is to play thru the OTB game in 2-player mode (also called non-auto mode) then you can flip back to the start and switch to 'analyse' mode and play forward. Thing to look out for is if the chess computer can store whole games and in particular whether there are any limitation on the number of takeback moves you can make. Unfortunately only the expensive chess computers will allow you to do all this. As an example the Millennium Performance (the large brown chess computer on the presenter's left) has 10 full game slots - limited to maximum of 256 moves per game - which can be uploaded or download via PC (no additional equipment required as the unit is provided with a USB cable and the manufacturer has a small free utility PC program to achieve all this). Pretty much all the modern expensive computers will have some method to reply OTB games if you have the PGN games files or your happy to follow the above method. If you want something cheap then an old second-hand Saitek Turbo-S-24K computer has 64 game slots but is only around 1600 elo @ 30sec a move - does has an excellent analysis system as well - note the game slots can be used for opening lines and/or problem positions as well. Some of the old high-end chess computers will also have decent game storage features, but then you're into the price range of considering a modern equivalents. PS, I own two of the Millennium computers (wooden and plastic) along with an external battery pack and chesslink gadget for on-line play - very hard to fault, you can end up with lots of cables, and although a little old-style they will last a lifetime unlike many of the more modern computers that use an non-replaceable limited recharge internal battery.
All eboards are overpriced and underdeveloped so far. They have huge software issues! Lack of features and full of bugs. Google needs to buy one of these companies to take them to the next level.
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I’ve had a DGT board the nice Bluetooth rosewood one with ebony Staunton pieces for a few years.
Very bulky and hard to bring with you from A-B.
It works decently well on Lichess through their program, not sure how well it works now with Chess com but I remember having it work temporarily and then stop working.
It takes a whole DAY to charge the board as well but can connect to the DGT pi clock I have, but my insert is broken.
I just ordered the chestnut air+ and am looking forward to having only 2 hour charge time and being able to bring with me to A-B
I’ve had other E boards before and this one I hope suits my needs.
The only thing I would change from what I can see is I would hope they make a magnetic wooden E board with notation and different piece options or colors like rosewood.
If they make that small air and air+ magnetic so I can carry it on a plane I will be very impressed (no I don’t want the tiny barely magnetic Go board)
As usual thanks for the video. I own chessnut air but my son will find chess genius pro 2024 under tree for the reason you mentioned: I don't want him to be tied to a smartphone. The only complain is that it hasn't a space for the pieces and so they must be stored seprarterly from the board
Good choice - excellent chess computer. It's small enough to fit in most laptop protective covers and if you have side pockets, problem solved. I use a school satchel I bought for a couple of quid from a charity shop.
You could talk about the time answering move (I'm saying for all boards, detailed)
How long does it take for the machine to move?
I don't like to spend many time waiting for a machine
And what about the difficulty?
You know, sometimes they give so easy blunder... and sometimes play toooooo strong for my level
Regarding the wear and tear on using pressure squares to indicate pieces movements. The underlying mechanism uses reed switches which will almost never fail individually. What does happening is that the ribbon cable that connects the IC board to the chess board will suffer micro cracks due to natural daily changes in temperature - effect will be that individual rows or files with stop working. Takes a wee while - many years - before this effect kicks in, if ever, but all the chess computers will be using ribbon cables of some sort. Although the reed switches are old technology they are used in many modern devices because of the simplicity, cost and reliability. Really not a worry. However I do wonder about the more modern piece recognition technology as clearly you can get individual piece failure if embedded IC chips are used and if magnetic you will lose magnetism with time. That aside, I value the ability to switch around chess sets as you can add much grandeur to a chess computer by purchasing higher quality pieces - or even making your own!
It is the way chess computers started out, before the auto-sensory boards - works very well (and I still have one that works after 40+ years - press type).
Whoa! No mention of DGT Centaur? Standalone much better features than others mentioned here. Just confused you mention the $630 Chessnut EVO and no mention of standalone popular DGT Pegasus board that runs half the price of the Evo.
Pegasus is not standalone, you need a connection to play. It is for online games.
@@vizke My bad meant the Centaur which I have.
My evo is ordered and I’m waiting.
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Have a question many others are probably wondering: Which if any e-board would you recommend for capturing a record of and later analyzing OTB blitz games?
The simplest thing to do is to play thru the OTB game in 2-player mode (also called non-auto mode) then you can flip back to the start and switch to 'analyse' mode and play forward. Thing to look out for is if the chess computer can store whole games and in particular whether there are any limitation on the number of takeback moves you can make. Unfortunately only the expensive chess computers will allow you to do all this. As an example the Millennium Performance (the large brown chess computer on the presenter's left) has 10 full game slots - limited to maximum of 256 moves per game - which can be uploaded or download via PC (no additional equipment required as the unit is provided with a USB cable and the manufacturer has a small free utility PC program to achieve all this). Pretty much all the modern expensive computers will have some method to reply OTB games if you have the PGN games files or your happy to follow the above method. If you want something cheap then an old second-hand Saitek Turbo-S-24K computer has 64 game slots but is only around 1600 elo @ 30sec a move - does has an excellent analysis system as well - note the game slots can be used for opening lines and/or problem positions as well. Some of the old high-end chess computers will also have decent game storage features, but then you're into the price range of considering a modern equivalents. PS, I own two of the Millennium computers (wooden and plastic) along with an external battery pack and chesslink gadget for on-line play - very hard to fault, you can end up with lots of cables, and although a little old-style they will last a lifetime unlike many of the more modern computers that use an non-replaceable limited recharge internal battery.
All eboards are overpriced and underdeveloped so far. They have huge software issues! Lack of features and full of bugs. Google needs to buy one of these companies to take them to the next level.
Bit like EV cars!