Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 13:54:00 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? I've heard support for the smartboard is not very good. Due to its increased complexity, it is likely to be more fragile than a a regular electronc board. I considered the Smartboard but due to the unclear legal issues surrounding it in the U.S. as well as the support issues and also the above complexity issue leading to the possibility of greater failure rate over the board's lifetime, I bought the Novag Universal board instead, though without piece-recognition. Happily, I also obtained the Novag's protocol and interfaced GNU Chess 5.0 (not yet released) to it over the IBM-PC's serial port using some publicware assembly language for manipulating the PC serial port. The happy result is being able to play games on a 3D physical board with full source to make changes to, and at a decent price (free program and low-priced chessboard.) --Stuart
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