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Hello all, I just received an email from Chesshouse and here is the pricing in the US: - module only: $1199 - with 15.7in board: $1699 - with 21.7in board: $1999 They said there is a $200 rebate for preorders. On the Millennium web site: - module only: 999EUR - with 15.7in board: 1499EUR - with 21.7...

Quite impressive and speechless how Stockfish v15 has improved since v8 (about 5y): https://youtu.be/0w7AcgGAPss v8 was the version who played against AlphaZero, an official rematch would be interesting I guess. Some folks claims they did a match with a similar to AlphaZero program: https://www.yout...

Well well well, it's not everyday that we can see a $7000 (yep) TASB SB20.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/284942547589

Shooting to the stars regards,

Fabrice

It's a shame that some people can't take critical questions and just run away. Hey TomFurga, stop using Sascha as your target, right? Your last post is quite not acceptable and not in the spirit of this forum. I kind of agree with him that your post was a bit "punchy" and provocative ... ...

Very interesting and happy to see the the "TASC way" is coming back !! Thank you Sascha for sharing :-) The photos look cool ;-) The front face seems cool but in that photo the texts are not centered in the Buttons ? Seems awkward to me. I am just hoping the connection cable between the un...

I agree that, from the YouTube video, the grain on the black squares (and to some extent for the white ones too) looks absolutely awful. How can you have those top-down stripes ?!? That is blowing up my mind. I own a first generation DGT board (USB) and a Rev-II and I agree that DGT is just "mi...

Ahahah, also if you go down the Kickstarter page there is a video showing a piece moving in circle on a prototype board and ... it seems quite noisy. Also you can hear people playing ping-pong in the background. Very "startupy". LoL. Garage regards, Fabrice I fear that the mechanism is fra...

I fear that the mechanism is fragile and it is a pity that it is too slow to play in Blitz, which takes a lot of interest. Indeed, looking at the Kickstarter video the mechanism seems quite slow, fragile and noisy. Having two (long) arms with a rotating center for mowing the pieces will lead to str...

Well, also it seems that the second auction was ended prematurely:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203454924661

What a farce auction Regards,

Fabrice

Dave, it depends. I have seen a few week ago a R30 sold for about 1000EUR https://www.ebay.de/itm/Tasc-R30-mit-Smartboard-SB30-Schachcomputer-/203312623293 so the good old days of the expensive TASCs are I think a bit over. Probably because people understand that their electronic has a strong probab...

Hello Larry, Yes I have seen it too and it is listed in France. The real listing was https://www.ebay.fr/itm/203446966874 I could contact the seller and this is no good. He seems a real jerk. I asked him to give me more infos on the machine and the cost of shipping to the US and I got a very evasive...

Because ... ISOs are the standard way for bootable media files ? See all the Linux distros. And consequently you could burn a CDROM with it and use it in older computers who do not boot from USB sticks because of their old BIOS. Fabrice What about creating a "bootable ISO" with this and le...

Interesting and thank you for doing that ! ;-) What about creating a "bootable ISO" with this and let people use it in any VM they want and/or create a USB bootable stick ? Fabrice If you still have it, can you give the link please ? Ok, here's the link (will only be valid for one week!): ...

Merry Christmas to you Fern and good wishes for great health and strong success for 2021.

We are finally burying that 2020 Regards !

Fabrice

Merry Christmas to all and good wishes for great health and better success for 2021.

We are finally burying that 2020 Regards !

Fabrice