DGT Centaur Unboxing

DGT Centaur Unboxing
Initial thoughts
Chess
London Chess&Bridge

[@rustyunquebecoiserrant.8049]

I just bought one about a month ago, I am enjoying it.

[@0z33y]

I have one coming next week , with the bag as well, was rather annoyed I had to pay a import duty , but there you go , when you filmed the underside I was surprised it never had a cover ?

[@1962Holland]

I just ordered one, will be delivered half July.

[@dwighttaylor8574]

I have one now love it

[@capnrob97]

I got one a few days ago. I have had various raspberry pi's over the years, and the weak link is always the SD card, they get corrupted and unreadable eventually. I took my Centaur apart and cloned the SD card to a couple others. I have one of the copies now in the Centaur, with the original and another copy stored in the box for when the SD card eventually get corrupted and the board no longer works.

[@51foxy]

Just ordered one today

[@Chantalicious74]

Nice review. What does the battery look like, can you take it out and have you tried to charge it with a powerbank?

[@g0tueSWL]

Unfortunately not, at least I havent tried, but battery life if very good, it uses very little.

[@m0rdresh]

Slick design, bit of a shame they left the bottom open. It has the advantage with piece recognition and thus no pressing down when doing moves compared to some other alternatives in the same budget. Makes a lot of different and plays like a non digital chess board in that regard.

[@davidgniadek924]

I have the DGT raspberry pi with dgt board thinking of getting the millennium king but these seem good how you liking it?

[@zapflod]

It's good, I have it as well as the DGT Pi and a DGT Bluetooth board, but I'm in love with my Millennium King Exclusive, after the update with the comfort levels it blows the DGT Centaur out of the water. But that's of course only my opinion :)

[@davidgniadek924]

That’s very interesting I might order one then is the analysis good on it? That’s one thing that is lacking on both of my DGT PI and centaur machines

[@zapflod]

@@davidgniadek924 It's not as strong as the Centaur, ELO 2300-2400 or there about, but with the new update it stores 9 games which can then be read over to Fritz, Chessbase, Chess.com or Lichess (that's what I do anyway). But with that said, I like the Analysis function on the King, you can also import new opening books to it if you want.

[@davidgniadek924]

@@zapflod that’s good I was looking for a review of the king on KZbin but couldn’t find anything only the chess genius exclusive the quality of the board and pieces look nice.can you use the king edition by its own or does it need to be connected to the board?

[@zapflod]

@@davidgniadek924 You have to use it together with the exclusive board, or you could go for the King Performance computerchess.com/en/the-king-performance-2/

[@eusie59]

Is this the way DGT sends it?

[@g0tueSWL]

yes

[@MaciejKlich53]

The chess pieces for this computer are a mistake. They should be made of wood with an aluminum foil backing.