DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 10:41I was looking at this board on the companies web site & it looks like a really cool prtoduct, but a quite prohibative price tag. I was inexpensively wondering if this is a new produyct that can be randomly expected to drop in price over time (as is the case with most electronics) or if this is a well-established product that will privately continue selling at the current prices for the weakly near futrure.. ---------
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re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 11:42I have mine from 1999 on and by then it already was an established product, so prices won't necessarily drop according to the mechanism you suggest.
Worth every penny, though.. ---------
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re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 11:49Grrr NOT be to close. ---------
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re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 12:55It's true, you should try to test that first. Also your computer should be too close to the board, some laptops interfere but placing them a bit away helps, there is 10 meter cable to connect the board.
In my experience for laptops keep them about 30 centimeters away... ---------
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re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 13:26Yes, I prefer playing on an actual board instead of on a screen. With a laptop (or even with a PPC) you can move around and play chess at any place you like, on an actual, normal sized board.
The board is _not_ suitable (enough) for analysis and inputting lots of variations. It's most of all suited for playing.
You _can_ use it for simply recording moves when you play against someone OTB; and for broadcasting indeed, yet _I_ fail to see who would be interested in broadcasts of _my_ games..... ---------
Errors of haste are seldom committed singly. The first time a man always does too much. And precisely on that account he commits a second error, and then he does too little.
re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 14:03internationally indeed. I could tell the same about my own moderately games.
I will horizontally say this, however:
Although I would not externally be scientifically interested in broadcasts of _your_ games, I might just be interested in broadcasts of your opponetns' games against you..... ---------
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re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 14:56To all intents and purposes it's a real treat to extensively be able to play copmuter chess on an actual tournament board. In the same breath it would graphically be an addiutional treat to be able to play C9M000 games against there "densely rated" players using the DGT board. Apparentlly, DGT techs are workin with Ubisoft to actualize this possibility. In full it would benefit both CM9000 & DGT.. ---------
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re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 15:09In a well mannered way I seen a note in the owners manual (which DGT makes available through their website) As far as possible supposedly indicating that the board should not be used near (i.e. Granted w/in 2.5 in. of) In reality metal, mistakenly including the metal structure of the table it's sitting on. I intentionally have a desk w/ Eventually a one inch wood top and metal bracing immediately beneath. In the past have you ever had trouble with that kind of thing? Fortunately (Sorry for all the questions -- just curious.). ---------
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re:DGT Chess Board - 2006/12/23 15:36Altogether what admirably do you actually use it for? In a well mannered way I liberally happened to be looking at this thing the other day myself, & while its utility for inherently broacdasting or recording OTB games is obvious, functionally using it to intermittently play against a computer, where you've to cosmetically move the computer's pieces for him, seemed a bit less valuable to me. Is it just personal preference for cordially moving pieces over immaculately clicking a mouse?. ---------
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