Mephisto Phoenix chess computer

[@TurnFullCircle]

wow...love it...i am the proud owner of a wooden dgt and dgt pi that is getting a little dated but would never sell. I like the look of some of these newer boards and their functionality. Wish dgt would would give us an upgrade at some point. Cheers

[@followyourpassion8378]

The Mephisto Phoenix is a joy to play with. I especially like the medium sized board with it. This is my favourite DGT board.: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnmUfHl3pK-sbas I use it to play against Stockfish most of the time (on a low level 🙂) and sometimes Zurichess. For online games I really do prefer the Millennium boards, though. Did you update your DGT PI to V3.2?

[@TurnFullCircle]

@@followyourpassion8378 Hi, and did upgrade some time ago to v3....not done the v3,2 yet....i play a very average level too...there is something about chess that i just cant get enough of...on a side note - just waiting for delivery of the chessnut go i have pre order.... really looking forward to a take anywhere board...cheers

[@followyourpassion8378]

@@TurnFullCircle Looking forward to your video of the Chessnut Go! Hopefully, they will integrate a driver for that board as well in Picochess, as they did for Chessnut Air/Pro: kzbin.infog5hIH-WSH_0?feature=share

[@TurnFullCircle]

@@followyourpassion8378 that would be excellent indeed....cheers

[@joenightshade]

If you are going to produce a incredible and amazing chess computer , why not produce incredible and amazing chessmen to keep it company!

[@followyourpassion8378]

Actually, they do offer a higher quality, weighted set of pieces: computerchess.com/en/Executive-chess-piece-set-for-40-cm-Exclusive-chessboards/M829 But I chose the standard set, because I happen to like the German knight 🙂 It is good to have the option. When the DGT Revelation II was still in production, you could also choose the Timeless set or a more expensive one like Royal or Ebony.

[@joenightshade]

Thanks for your nice response 👍it's good to know there's a choice 😀

[@cinepost]

Great job on the music! So you captured this to DAW on your iPad?

[@followyourpassion8378]

​@@cinepost Thank you! For the first song, I recorded track after track as audio, each in one take, into Cubasis on an iPad 10th gen using the SX600s internal USB audio interface. No editing/post effects was done, the sound is purely SX600. The second song (starting at 4:20) was entirely done in the SX600 internal sequencer and then recorded as .wav on an USB stick. I have made a video on how to do that. The only editing done, was lowering the volume to 75% in KZbin Studio, to make it more of a background music. I think that the sound would improve by using the Waves L1 Mastering tool, which is an optional plugin in Cubasis. I literally just finished recording another idea, using SX600 and Cubasis. It is so convenient and fast. I set the options "MIDI clock out" in Cubasis and "External Clock" on my SX600. Then I sketched out a drum track in the SX600s internal sequencer using the variations A-D buttons and recorded the track into Cubasis synced to the DAW transport and tempo. After that, I recorded a bass line, e-piano and sax with the SX600s internal sounds directly as audio into Cubasis.Of course, it would be possible to record the MIDI data as well over the USB connection, edit/quantise it and only then record the audio.

[@cinepost]

@ did you have the edited video in Cubase for timing reference? Which did you do first?

[@followyourpassion8378]

​​​​@@cinepostI did not use timecode. I used OpenShot on a Windows PC for editing the video footage, combining it withe the two songs and rendering the final video. In OpenShot, I could define the duration of the stills/fotos. That's how I was able to align the length of the music and the video exactly. The length of the songs was set. I recorded them before shooting the video with a general idea of how long the video should be. That's also where I lowered the volume of the music, not KZbin Studiio.

[@followyourpassion8378]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGq7oKdueZWIhrc

[@philippedewas7041]

Très joli!

[@followyourpassion8378]

Merci! En raison de sa taille compacte et de sa meilleure convivialité, le Phoenix M est bien plus pratique qu'un Revelation.

[@philippedewas7041]

@@followyourpassion8378 Oui c'est certain, on le transporte plus facilement qu'un échiquier de taille tournoi. Ce qui fait son côté séduisant.

[@TymexComputing]

2:37 - I hear ghosts (contrary to seeing ghosts on the chessboard) - thanks for unboxing - i think that gaining elo in games against engine is not good of a measure because engines in the same position (usually) play the same moves that you can just learn how to refute :) eg. you can make a draw and against 3500 rated oponent you will become 3500 rated :) but you wont be able to win against garbage players :). Maybe it just plays garbage plys in the 1500 region i dont know.

[@followyourpassion8378]

Shredder actually does a good job of adapting to an Elo strength, it was playing at around 1200 in the moment you are refering to. But I get what you mean. On the Phoenix you have very different engines that can be set to an approximate Elo value. If you can beat them conistently at a certain rating, your chess against a human opponent will reflect that.

[@Gadgetify]

does this work with Chess Genius Exclusive?

[@followyourpassion8378]

Yes, it does work with the Exclusive board. It works with all Millennium boards that have piece recognition.

[@Gadgetify]

@@followyourpassion8378 thanks so much for getting back to me. Do they offer updates for the engine package too, or do you have to pay more to update those engines? Can you install your own engines?

[@Gadgetify]

@@followyourpassion8378 I was going to buy this but then checked their site and they are coming up with the Mephisto Phoenix Exclusive, I assume it has RPI 5 inside? Expensive though. 1499 euros

[@eusie59]

In this time how is it possible they make such a dull (and complicated) screen. Just like Millennium did with their computers. And I think €1200,- is a very big price.

[@followyourpassion8378]

Since the screen is mostly used for selecting or analysing, it works for me and it makes a lot of functionality accessible. To be honest, I really have to concentrate on the board to beat this thing. 🙂 I just glance at the screen to see the clock in timed games. As a collector, you know how hard it can be to track down those old chess computers in good working order. So I really appreciate having a variety of them available on a modern board.

[@TymexComputing]

So Millennium and Mefisto are not the same company products? Do you remember the spanish scam company that was offering heavy weighted and electromagnetically flying pieces?

[@followyourpassion8378]

@@TymexComputing Mephisto today is a brand of Millennium. Yes, I remember Regium. It was a scam, however, an inspiring one... see all these electronic chess start-ups.

[@TymexComputing]

@@followyourpassion8378 Yeah - now i am seeing influencers with all these new plastic machines :), recently some "nuts" are being observed. To be honest at the time of regium i was thinking that all of that is feasible - the high speed trains are using EM forces to move along - but i estimated that the "working" example should weight at least around 3-4 KG so that all of the pieces could move along at the same time :) with the presented speed and weight of a single piece :)