Author: Steve B
Date: 04:03:18 01/10/05
In My opinion the Mephisto Bavaria board was the most magnificent of all of the Tournament sized ,wooden ,auto-sensory boards Similar in size to the Munchen board,it first came on the market in 1989 and was the first dedicated chess computer to offer full piece recognition. the board recognized the type of piece and its color via coils in the base of the piece the board alone sold for over $2500 when it was first released. to enter a position for analysis or to start a game with the black pieces from the bottom of the board, the owner simply had to set up the pieces and begin play http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=dba6.jpg&.src=ph pawn promotions were handled by special "capped" or wild pawns once you promoted the pawn and entered into the keyboard the piece you promoted to..you used these pawns to continue play: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=6f4e.jpg&.src=ph http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=4303.jpg&.src=ph the first Mephisto module that could use the Bavaria board was version 1.04 of the Portorose program earlier version's of the program (v1.01-1.03)as well as all previous Mephisto modules could not use the board after the Portorose ,many (but not all )of the Mephisto program modules were compatible with the Bavaria board if a module was compatible ,then both the 16 and 32 bit versions would be as well http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=358f.jpg&.src=ph here My Bavaria is shown in a custuom made wooden case: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=f08c.jpg&.src=ph Greetings From Bavaria Steve
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