Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 20:19:49 12/08/05
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On December 08, 2005 at 22:57:51, Alan Grotier wrote: > > Eleven months ago I purchased the subject board.It would not always > recognize a piece on it's square.I was using the Fritz8 Gui. > I sent it back for a refund. > I really don't why the board did not work correctly. > > I really liked the board & pieces but disliked the board not having > LED's on each square.To see the computer's move one must look at the > computer screen.Which is disagreable. > > I am tempted once again to try the DGT + the DGTXL clock. > Questions: > 1) I want it primarily to play against CM9K. How good is it for this? > 2) What Gui will be used for the CM9K ? > 3) How good is the DGTXL clock at registering & displaying the > computer moves? You should have read the Trouble Shooter more carefully. The probable reason the DGT board didn't recognize a piece or pieces correctly is due to where the pieces are setup in the initial position. There are coloured circles on the bottom of the pieces and the pawns are very sensitive on their starting ranks. You need to alternate the pawns in relation to those colour patterns in order for the DGT board to detect them. I know as I had the same problem. When I read the Trouble Shooter it told me how to alternate the colour codes. This fixed the problem. All my chess GUIs that supported the DGT board started to work normally again. As for Chessmaster, DGT has put out new software to operate within its GUI. Terry
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