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Subject: Re: TASC Autosensory Board/Smartboard

Author: ujecrh

Date: 08:48:08 06/25/98

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On June 25, 1998 at 11:06:37, Chess Clooectors Worldwide wrote:

>Can anyone give me an evaluation of TASC's autosensory board. It is called the
>Samrtboard. Is there anything less expensive on the market witht he same quality
>that is less expensive?

Saitek autoboard was far less expensive (about half the price) then Smartboard
when I bought it. On the other hand it is a bit smaller and does not
have pieces recognition (eg. you can not directly setup a position on the
wooden board because it does not make difference between a knight and
a bishop for instance - you must first set it up in the program).

For the quality point, I think the autoboard is much nicer than
Tasc Smartboard but this is my opinion and I haven't seen new
Tascboards (they probably have changed thier pieces set).

Smartboard can use drivers to work with several programs whereas autoboard
requires a build-in support (present in genius, rebel, virtual chess...).

If you intend to use it intensively just go for Smartboard else
several autoboards can do the job.




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