Thank you! Now I have it working on Ubuntu ARM64 under Apple Parallels Desktop M1 (if someone needs it just ask

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Thank you! Now I have it working on Ubuntu ARM64 under Apple Parallels Desktop M1 (if someone needs it just ask
That's wonderful, so your using this on your M1
Millennium Chess: https://computerchess.com/en/AlexChess wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:44 pm ...Instead I'm interested to buy a Raspberry PI4, too. 20-30 years ago I was a chess computer dedicated Satek-Kasparov-Mephisto dealer, I do not understand why someone don't continue to produce them using powerful raspberry-like hardware, selling master level affordable 100$ sensory chessboards connectable also to PC & MAC if you wold reach SuperGM 3000+ ELO, instead of buiding 1800 Elo toys still using H8 CPUs . Weak toys that I find today Googling
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Cool!mvanthoor wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:11 pmMillennium Chess: https://computerchess.com/en/AlexChess wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:44 pm ...Instead I'm interested to buy a Raspberry PI4, too. 20-30 years ago I was a chess computer dedicated Satek-Kasparov-Mephisto dealer, I do not understand why someone don't continue to produce them using powerful raspberry-like hardware, selling master level affordable 100$ sensory chessboards connectable also to PC & MAC if you wold reach SuperGM 3000+ ELO, instead of buiding 1800 Elo toys still using H8 CPUs . Weak toys that I find today Googling
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Back to the 80's. They are basically a reboot of H&G's Mephisto (even the font type is the same), and they use the same software. It's basically the Mephisto computers of the late 80's repackaged into new hardware.
The dedicated hardware such as the Exclusive or Exclusive Deluxe is WAY too expensive. I'd much rather have a DGT-board and the Limited Edition clock, and a Raspberry Pi in a nice case. Oh... wait. I have that. Twice. The board is tournament size, and I can completely control it myself. I built my own Picochess image from scratch, compiled my own engines for it (including my own engine), and created my own opening books using the Classical games from the free Lichess databases.
The DGT Pi is a nice piece of kit, but I don't like the fact that it needs additional software to get the Pi and clock to communicate. This software is finicky. I'd rather keep everything independent, so I can swap the Pi out for any other computer I want.
Sure. I understand it's not everybody's cup of tea, because it takes quite some space. My DGT board is on a dedicated table though: it sits there forever. It's the Walnut board (because that's the only one without lettering), with the Timeless pieces (because I don't want completely black pieces, and I don't like the huge fat knight in the Royal set).
Tell me about it. As a kid, I've drooled over the wooden modular chess computers by Mephisto for ages, but when you're like 8 years old, it's impossible to ask your parents to buy you an fl. 1500 chess computer. That would be € 680, which was a HUGE amount of money in the 80's. I got an el-cheapo chess computer from my parents, because none of my friends played chess and there wasn't a chess club where kids could play (too late in the eveneing). I started to defeat it within about a year. In total I saved money for about 3 years, and did many chores at home and for family members, to be able to buy my very own chess computer for fl. 400. (I still have it, and I sometimes play it for nostalgic reasons: the CXG Sphinx Titan.)My granddaughter has donated a 37€ Lexibook electronic chessboard to her husband (I suggested it) and it seems very good for the price, but the 80's wooden chessboards were really nice. I had in my home a Kasparov Renaissance, a Mephisto Roma 68020 and a Fidelity Elite A/S. I'd like to find something similar today, but with a good processor inside and/or PC / Mac connections![]()
You don't have to search. As said, this is: