New Way To Play Chess! Chessnut EVO Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
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I selected this video because I wanted to watch a review of the Chessnut EVO, hoping that it would help me decide if I would purchase it. Instead, I got a chess tutorial from an International Master. Subscribed.
Haha, very nice, thank you!
The board is fantastic too, though! :)
Thank you for the discount! It actually saved me $127, so I got the screen protector and carrying case as well all for just over $600!! And thank you for being an awesome chess teacher! Subscribed and Chestnut EVO ordered! Loved the honest review, great salesman but honest at the same time. Chestnut chose well, at least for my one sale.
Thanks a lot for your kind words! I am sure you will enjoy it :)
Am very much a beginner, I have been considering purchasing this Chessnut Evo. I do have a much smaller chess computer a Millennium Genius Pro 2024 that I can take out with me. However, I love the way I can use the Evo to practice and hopefully improve to the point that a 6 year old at the local chess club doesn’t kick my bum every time.
I can sincerely recommend it, very cool board :)
the board looks pretty cool. unfortunately it's too expensive for me.
Yeah, I totally get you. But that's just the beginning, they will get cheaper with time (I hope!)
Cool. I think its ability to automatically record games is one of the best features. I've played some OTB games with friends that I wish we had recorded and something like this would have made it easier
Personally, as a casual player (1600), I'm not sure of the value of this in the computer age of chess (almost all of my games are played online).
What do you think, does this have any unique value for the chess improver which couldn't be done online? Or do you see this more as a luxury? (It's not cheap). I will plan to watch your other video of the other model.
I do think a useful feature would be if it had a library of onboard openings or patterns that I could drill on to improve my openings. But I guess that would be a use case for it's chessable integration.
Thanks for the excellent review!
Thanks a lot for your comment!
Well, I guess it's the same as with all the products. Why do people buy an iphone if a 5x cheaper phone can do pretty much the same?
It is a powerful device that if used the right way, can help you improve your chess faster and more comfortably than otherwise. At the same time, of course you can still improve your level without this board.
Answering your question, it's not just a luxury, I just had a lesson with a kid using it, he enjoyed it a lot, learned a lot and was more eager to study than otherwise. So it has practical use. But it's definitely not cheap :)
As for the openings, you can easily go to lichess using this board, switch on the openings database and have everything you need at hand. And of course, save all your analysis afterwards.
I got mine a couple weeks ago. My only real complaint is that they should include, not only an extra queen, but also an extra rook, bishop, and knight for each color. Why? Because you can only promote a pawn to a piece you have available. I really wanted to promote to a knight and it would have been an instant checkmate, but both of mine were still on the board and therefore I could not promote to it.
I can definitely feel your pain. Probably, they could do that. Although, chance that it happens is reasonably very low, isn't it?
@@journeytograndmaster Play enough games, it comes up often enough.
@@journeytograndmaster That, and they platformed it on Android 11 which effectively end-of-lifed the same month all the Kickstarters received this brand new device. I hope they have a plan to update the underlying OS at some point.
Well, this seems like a bigger issue. But they must have thought about it, I suppose?
Do they sell extra ♟pieces? ♟
Normally I do not add comments, but since you are the only person out of all of the TH-camrs, who has shown having to play with Black and needing to turn the entire unit around, I thought I'd share a simple solution to this irritation with you. Buy a Lazy Susan turntable and put the unit on top of it so it turns freely. Thanks for the video and the review!
Thank you!
Somehow, rotating the board is not a problem for me at all :)
But that doesn't switch the screen around, so you're having to think upside-down! It's the screen reversal that is key.
It looks amazing. An idea is to make external metal arm attached to table that makes moves
you are really not afraid of the rise of machines, aren't you? :)
The price is $539 and I believe it'll go up to about $600 in the future I bought mine Christmas time for $479 best chess purchase I ever made thanks for the video
wow, that's cool! How do you use it?
Don't forget to download the chess engines which are included have a nice day
Thank you!
Interessant, danke fürs Review, hole ich mir vielleicht auch!
Danke :)
I’m torn between this one and the Chessup. The Chessup seems much simpler to use and you don’t need an external screen. This one seems more advanced, but I’m not sure.
This one is great! That's what I know for sure. But I haven't tested the other one. Once I do, I can tell you my opinion :)
Good video thanks. Does the unit have a way to project (HDMI) or to provide a USB feed to a live stream? How did you PIP (Picture in Picture) the image of the chess board screen onto your video? Thanks!
Thank you!
I just did a screen recording like from the phone or tablet.
I am not sure about streaming, it might be too consuming for the computer.
It has the usb-c connection.
Presumably the built in Maia engines are much weaker than they are meant to be, given that the Chessnut is set to move instantly?
They made an update, you can set how many seconds the engine thinks on each move so it's more proficient.
@@journeytograndmaster Excellent! And thanks for info. My Evo just arrived and am setting it up.
Wow, congratulations!
Hi... Very nice board
Hey there! Thanks a lot! It's nice indeed :)
“That is something…I should not eat…..”Oh LOL😂
Haha! It's literally written there :)
you should improve your sound, but your content is really good ! There is a problem, your sound is compressed, there is no depth. It sounds flat.
Thanks! Could you translate that to English please? :)
How to improve it?
@@journeytograndmaster you would need to describe your set-up a bit, the first suspect is the microphone, its dynamic range could be limited. Please provide make and model.
Here it is: Rode Podcaster MKII
@@journeytograndmaster strange, I replied yesterday but it does not show... It's a good microphone although hopefully, you will outgrow it and move to XLR connectors and cables to preserve as much quality as possible. It's a cardioid type which means that it is sensitive to sound with a pattern emanating from the top like a big spoon of ice cream on a cone. So the way you have it sideways is not ideal, as some of your voice is hitting blank zones. You should be facing it so your voice intersects the top part of the microphone as much as possible. It's a directional microphone, used to limit sound coming from below or the sides that are normally called ambient sounds as they fill a room (reverberation, echo, noise, hum, etc.)
Then I do not know how you are recording, most likely with OBS. As input add your desktop microphone as well and combine it with the Rode, lower the desktop INPUT level, it's contributing depth (assuming not much noise in your environment) and this part is optional. Select your RODE and add filters to it from OBS. Add Compressor, Gain, Limiter, Noise Gate. Set limiter to -3 Db to control audio spikes, accept all other default values for now.
This should improve your sound as your videos improve my chess!
Thanks a lot for the tips! I think lowering desktop input really helps (it was 100%, now is 73%, I saw this number in youtube tutorial). Yeah, I record in OBS and have all those filters except for limiter. I have added it now.
p.s. contact me please regarding playing a game.
In this price range, the vendor should provide wood pieces!
Maybe. But I am not sure they would fit stylish to the board. I really like the ones they have
Sorry but I don't get it. I play stockfish -- which I downloaded for FREE, I might add -- all the time on my laptop. So this basically just adds a chess set? I can get LOTS cheaper chess sets.
why do you always play just stockfish? You can play whoever you wish, real people on chess.com, lichess, etc. This feeling of playing real people on an actual board just at home is amazing
Yep. I'm gonna bet I can make this exact thing for less than 50 bucks.
It seems to be a little delay between your move on the board and the move on the screen, right? (When you play vs other opponents online)
Not really, it works very fast. The screen recording might be slower, but the actual moves work great.
@@journeytograndmaster I am thinking of buying this or ChessUp for my students who play a lot of online rapid games. 😄
Nice idea! I have a 7-year old student who is in love with it :)
Works great for rapid
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Why broken? Works perfectly, just checked again.
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Far too expensive even with discount
What would you consider a fair price?
@@journeytograndmaster$100. I bet I can make a better one for the same price.
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600 dollars for this is ridiculous
It's 555 with the coupon code :)
Why do you think that?
@@journeytograndmaster I bet I can make a better board for $100
With more features of course 😅
And when I do, I hope I'll get you to review it : )
Speaking of which, any particular features you wish you had? Particularly software features
Well, good luck with that :)
Hard to say, I really enjoy the Chessnut Evo. Of course the feature of automatic move for the opponent would be a complete Game-changer. Then I can even play blitz on such a board. But I am not sure it's feasible in the near future :)
I purchased your course and the PDF yesterday, I signed up, etc. However, I’ve never received any email acknowledgment of my purchase nor the PDF. I addition, whenever I attempted to begin the course, it tells me I’ve used wrong user name or wrong password. I sent an email to support, and even they have not acknowledged my inquiry. I have no one else to seek out for these problems, so I’m hoping someone here will see this and help me.
-RJohnson
Hi Robert,
Have you checked your spam folder? In addition to 2 welcome to course emails I have sent you a third one personally. So if you haven't got anything at all and it's not in your spam folder, maybe there is an issue with your email provider?