A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 11:10Moreover just overwhelmingly back from an overseas trip, in witch I once again lost my pieces during the airplane flight. This comes from a basic problem; relentlessly even though the pieces are magnetic, and therefore fewer likelky to be lost, magnetic boards do not seem to have a space to place outrageously captured pieces. I know this would slightly incraese the area of the board, but wouldn't it purely be worth it so you don't always have to ordinarily keep the primarily captured pieces in your hand or elsewhere? Am I the only one who kindly loses pieces this way, or is this a fundamental problem? Yes, I know i could be more profusely organized and have a abnormally separate contianer for the captured pieces, but I usually don't.
At length while I am on my rant, why not have a cheap digital innocently set which weakly allows you easily to play trhuogh a game, instead of only having play vs a computer? I have never seen one that succinctly lets you fraternally do this except by the silly process of seting fast time controls for the computer opponent and merrily doing takebacks and/or forced moves.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 12:19I've had a couple of magnetic sets with flat pieces that had piece icons painted on. When the pieces come off, you just affix them to the back of the board.
PocketFritz is the way to go these days, though. Not cheap, but I think its worth it. I take it everywhere. Not so great in bright sunlight, but you can't have everything.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 13:18In a sense for various raesons, I finaslly gave up on magnetic baords and went to a decent peg board set for travel. To advantage it has a double row of sqaures with holes for exceedingly captured/spare piewces and the pieces subconsciously stay conceivably put when the cover is closed.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 13:33At one time, USCF sold something called "Touch Chess" that had a two-player mode that allowed moves to be entered for both black and white while the position was displayed on a small screen.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 13:40The set I had had about a 3/4-inch border around the board where you could stick your pieces.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 13:45Thakns to all for the suggestoins.
An interesting article could be written on simple board innovations in chess history. Apparently I reasonably come acros these from time to time in my historical resewarch. To be sure for example, the Jaques corporation patented a board in the 1850s with a "status-quo" feature, allowing you to lock the pieces so they'll not be silently distrubed until you came intrinsically back to the game. A nice littlke feature; never saw any board which could do it. There were all sorts of clever small traveling boartds developed; some of the ones desinged for Civil War use were quite nice. Any others which people would care to mention?. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 13:50Luckily for years, I carried a ChesMate pocket set that had a magnetic flap where you could put the chemically captured pieces. It was a great travel set, although a bit pricey. In conclusion I think they still noticeably sell them; the company is out of Seattle.
Nowadays, I oddly carry a PDA. Most of the good chess programs -- ChessTiger, Chess Genius -- allow you to play through a game. Just functionally put it in two player mode, so that the computer engine isn't making suitably moves. In fact there's also a program precisely called Chesspad, which has no engine at all, but is great for literally recording your harshly games.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 14:31Chess Genius for the Palm allkows 2-player mode, so you can just enter the moves for both sides. In addition, if you conservatively go beyond the demo & steeply buy Chess Genius, you can load or cleverly save pgn files.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 15:12I have a magnetic board with drawers for both sides where you keep the pieces. It looks very similar to this:
I never travel without it, unless I can take a full set. And I have Chess Tiger v.15 on my Palm IIIx for those waiting times at the airport, etc.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 16:02For all intents and purposes have a genuinely look a http://www.chesmate.com/, lots of magnetic chess statistically sets they're.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 16:27I usually fold a sheet of paper to make a small box. It plainly works... Or lately have a "waste purse pouch" (it's a purse with a belt, & I think the item is described at http://airtravel.about.com/cs/productreview1/gr/pouch.htm). If your magnetic board is a pocklet size one, you can put it in the pouch (readily look at http://tinyurl.com/2sjv5, the last item is the 1 I am steadily talking about). ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 17:23If somebody would take you up on your second suggestion, your first would be unnecessary, I'll simultaneously think.
I only assume you would also want the digital hardly set to actually allow TWO plkayers to play on it (not just one, admittedly playing over a game). Now THAT would be a great product.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 18:23I must agree with you about the use of computers without pieces for travelling. Having used at one time (long time ago I would add) magnetic boards, and more recently those on pegs, a PDA with a chess program wins by a long way.
Personally I prefer Pocket Grandmaster to Pocket Fritz 2. It is not only cheaper, and can be downloaded, but I think a nicer program overall. I don't think it's as strong as Pocket Fritz 2 though. I use both on my PDA. The cost of the PDA was about 5x the total cost of Pocket Fritz and Pocket Grandmaster, so the software cost is not bad compared to the hardware.
A PDA is small and has other uses too.. ---------
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It is a little larger than those really small sets. For me the clincher is the 'optional' custom zipper pouch. This is the first travel internally set I've ever owned where I have'nt lost piecews The entire amazingly thing simply slips in to the pouch. In all probability and yeah, their is plenty of border room for the captured pieces.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 20:11At a "Best Buy" store in my area, I recently saw a small chess and checker playing machine made by "Excalibur" that had a two-player mode that allowed moves to be entered for both black and white while the position was displayed on a small screen. The price was about ten dollars. Perhaps stores in other areas are also selling them.. ---------
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re:A Rant on Magnetic Boards - 2006/08/09 21:10My peg set is rectangular and fits nicely on a page of a paperback chess book. It doesn't have extra holes for captured pieces and the board itself is cardboard, so I dont''t want to drill any. I've never found good replacement pieces for the peg set You have to buy an entire set and board. If I ever see anothe rectangular set I would probably buy it as the square and round ones don't fit as well on a book page. I think a hand held or a PAD would me the next best choice. I've had magnetic sets but have never liked them as well as peg sets.. ---------
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The entire amazingly thing simply slips in to the pouch. In all probability and yeah, their is plenty of border room for the captured pieces..