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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh
Why do you need a clock? Wouldn't the laptop or phone do the clocking?
In the Square Off video at about 0:28 there's no emblem on the rim - maybe you can attach it yourself if/where you want it? The fixed white/black orientation could get pretty annoying though...
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You need the clock to see the moves when playing against the computer, so you don't need to look at the screen.
Two other design peeves: one with DGT and their DGT XL and DGT 3000 clocks. You're selling beautiful boards and pieces, costing between €450 for the cheapest set, up to somewhere around €1000 for the most expensive, and then you pair it with a fracking plastic piece of *** clock costing €69 for time keeping and move generation.
Beautiful DGT Board
Piece of *** creaking plastic crap clock
Why not pair it with a digital version of an old classic, with adjustable clock face plate? One of the best known clocks is the
Garde Classic. And yes, they have a digital version, so it can be done. DGT could even just have put their DGT 3000 into a nice wooden box, and use better quality buttons, and they'd be done.
Another product that makes the same mistake is the
Millennium ChessGenius Exclusive (which includes, for the first time in 20 years AFAIK, Richard Lang's Chess Genius program). It gets raving reviews everywhere, except for the plastic control unit that looks, sounds, and feels like something straight out of 1985.
One of the most beautiful chess computers of recent years is the
Revelation II (actually created in the Netherlands as a hobby project, based on a DGT board, and now produced and sold by DGT. It's a bit smaller than a tournament board). But yeah... it costs like €2800.
If I don't want a laptop beside the board, I'll just connect a Raspberry with PicoChess on it, or if it has to be even cleaner, the
DGT Pi (Raspberry Pi and DGT 3000 clock integrated, although they've changed the clock electronically to connect it to the Pi, and adapted the software, so you'll have to use their version of PicoChess and have to wait for them to integrate updates).