Great for travelling or just to have out. I appreciate that they took some time/effort to make the pieces look classy.
However…
Just how big are the pieces?
If they are small, and if one is dropped (especially in a car on a road trip) how hard would they be to find again, despite being shiny and magnetic? (due to size)
How good/reliable is the onboard memory for saving games in progress?
How does this react when dropped?
How easy-to-use is this interface? Does anyone own or have experience using this over a period of time that could expound on it?
I’d like to get this, but hopefully it’ll be in a woot-off for 5-10 dollars cheaper…
No. This one does NOT have motors. The players must manually move the pieces. i.e. the player must move for the computer, which will tell the player what its desired move is. It is a nice feature that the board will detect the move though, so you don’t have to key in your moves for the computer to know what you did.
I wonder if it has a “I didn’t let go!” sensor though.
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Thanks, Not familiar with the Class rating system…
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heh. I noticed his typo too, but was going to let it go.
For those who don’t know, though, EN PASSANT is a move in which a pawn may capture an opposing pawn that just used its “two square” move to bypass the spot where it might have been captured had it only moved one square. I always think of it as the opposing pawn having stuck out his lance as the other one tried to run by him, impaling him to death mid-run. Too much Battle Chess back in the day, I guess.
hey everybody,
I have heard about this thing called the internet, and apparently there are lots of things called “sites” that let you play chess and checkers against other people or computers. And for free. Just thought I should share that secret. But I guess if you can’t bear staring at the screen for too long, this is a good “real life” alternative.
Unless it’s Battle Chess, there’s nothing as good as having actual chess pieces in front of you that you can fling at your opponent when you lose your temper. Of course, magnets would mitigate that classic game ending board flip move.
Seriously though, a really nice chess set in play with a worthy opponent is much better than a computerized representation. Just like actually getting out and riding your board is better than thrashing it up with eTonyHawk.
Adorable. The pieces zip around the board by themselves with the aid of magnets-- it’s just like playing a real person. Can be noisy, but feels better than playing some computer chess game.
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At least it can buy a consonant - wait, is that allowed?
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(edit: oh great. only now I see that two other people have made the spelling correction. however, the Wiki article is fairly decent and I’m only putting a part of it in here. The person who wrote the bit sort of like “and nails the guy with his lance as he goes by” has a wonderful imagination.)
Ten points for Eddy! The move is spelled “en passant” (‘n’ being the consonant that EddyRobinson refers to). See Wikipedia for the following:
En passant (from French: in passing) is a move in the board game of chess. En passant is a special capture made immediately after a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had moved only one square forward. In this situation, the opposing pawn may capture the pawn as if taking it “as it passes” through the first square. The resulting position is the same as if the pawn had only moved one square forward and the opposing pawn had captured normally. The en passant capture must be done on the very next turn, or the right to do so is lost. Such a move is the only occasion in chess in which a piece captures but does not move to the square of the captured piece. If an en passant capture is the only legal move it must be made.
(edit 2: freaking bloody wireless keyboard! they get SO flaky when their batteries get low. I make enough typos as it is, I don’t have to have the machine making MORE for me. This note is only for those who saw the screwed up versions, not this one. At least I -hope- this one isn’t screwed up.)
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Is this like the chessboard that was sold a few weeks ago with the moving chess pieces? Basically, does the game move the pieces for you?
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No it doesn’t move by itself and Thank God for that.
The last one was a great concept but it was executed using Industrial Revolution technology. Grinding gears and all - I could see the proletarian party members building it and playing it while drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes with no filters.
This one doesn’t play itself, but it senses your moves (no need to enter them) and it holds the pieces with magnets “strong enough to turn it upside down without dropping them”.
And it plays checkers as well.
Two players or player against computer.
Now if we could just travel back to the fifties before iPod, cell phones, laptops and video games were invented and get folks interested long enough to play it.
I’m buying two, one for my son so that he can donate it to a museum one day when he grows up and get a write off for it. The second one is for me. If I end up somehow NOT playing it now (likely), I can always put in storage until it’s time for me to go to a home.
But it’s too tempting to pass up. I’m in for two. $44.98 shipped. Maybe I can use one to start building a time machine.
We need an electronic magnetic Parcheesi game (1 player or 4).
The board measures 8.5x8.5. If I understand the Woot description, the overall size is 12x10. Weight is 2.6#
The same model(E951) at Amazon is $46.49 (marked down from $79.95). There are no ratings for this model on Amazon, but other models of the same brand have an average 4star rating.
I’m happy to say that in a few clicks, I’ll have finished my Secret Santa shopping. These are pretty cool and I may even keep one, although I have to admit that the free chess software that comes with Mac OS X has kicked my ass enough that I’ve taken the hint and stopped using it.
Are you serious? What’s the size of the board? Google it. If you don’t know how to do research, you shouldn’t be using a computer. God save us all if you drive a car.
