Description of DGT Electronic Chess Board in Rosewood
The plug & play DGT electronic chess board brings you the best of two worlds. The classical game of chess finally merged with 21st century computer and internet technology. The beautiful classic wooden DGT e-board easily connects to the USB port on your PC. With the DGT e-board you can play online at internet chess sites like PlayChess, Chess 21 and ICC. The ingenious e-board acts as input device for all major playing programs. The DGT e-board is the ultimate chess-PC interface. It adds a new dimension to your chess fun. A typical DGT product. Innovative, designed for the real chess lover. High quality and value for money.
DGT Chess Board Features
- Automatically store games in the memory of the board while you play, and retrieve the games as PGN later; Beautifully-inlaid wood board with official FIDE tournament-size squares (5.5 x 5.5 cm, 2 1/4" x 2 1/4"); Board only 1.8 cm thick. The same as a normal chessboard
- Three different designs Staunton Wooden Chess Pieces are available, each with a king height of 95mm (3 3/4")
- Possibility to connect a DGT Clock
- Simply connects to USB or serial port of your PC; Driver CD included for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
The DGT Electronic Board is supported by many programs, and new programs are added to this list frequently. See below for current list- The gift box comes with a special edition of the famous Fritz program and 100 days free access at PlayChess.com
DGT Chess Board works with these Chess Software Programs
- TOMA: DGT Projects' professional chess tournament broadcasting software. Great for live tournament broadcasting, but also for publishing existing games.
- World Chess Network: Play against internet opponents with the electronic board!
- ChessBase Products: Fritz 8, Fritz 7, Fritz 6, Fritz 5.32, Fritz 5, Hiarcs 7.32, Junior 5, Nimzo 99
- Arena (All versions)
- A graphical user interface to play with many chess engines like Crafty, GNUChess, LambChop and many, many more!
- Internet Chess Club: Play live online chess with BlitzIn + the WoodIn plugin.
- US Chess Live: Use US Chess Live Windows Version 4.0 to play on the game site, using the DGT Electronic Chess Board.
- Pocket Grandmaster: A fully featured and extremely strong award winning chess playing program for Pocket PCs running Pocket PC 2002 or Windows CE 3.0. This new version also supports the DGT Electronic Chess Board.
- Please note that not all Pocket PC's are supported. It does not seem to work with the DELL Axim.
- Arena: A graphical user interface to play with many chess engines like Crafty, GNUChess, LambChop and many, many more!
- Internet Chess Club: Play live online chess with Blitzin
- and more!