Novag Universal Electronic Chess Board

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Novag Universal Electronic Chess Board, a wooden chess board with magnetic sensors released by Novag in 1996 as dedicated chess user interface for compatible Novag chess computers such as Novag Super VIP and Novag Sapphire, or for supported commercial chess programs running on a PC. The board was connected via RS-232 serial interface to the serial port of the computer. The PC programs required a start of a provided driver indicating the com port number. Drivers were available for the MS-DOS chess programs Fritz 1-3, Mephisto Advantage, Genius 3, Rebel 7 and WChess , and others, later also for engines running under Windows GUIs, such as ChessPartner , WinBoard and Arena.

=See also=
 * Novag Citrine
 * Novag Sapphire

=Forum Posts=

1998 ...

 * Re: Rebel 8 on the Novag Universal Board by Ed Schröder, CCC, March 04, 1998
 * Novag Universal ChessBoard Programming by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, March 27, 1998
 * DGT vs Novag Universal by Michael Ginat, CCC, January 19, 1999 » DGT Board
 * Re: Novag Universal Board and Winboard by Ian Osgood, CCC, July 26, 1999

2000 ...

 * Novag UCB by John Boggiano, rgc, November 17, 2000
 * CEBoard 2.1 beta and Novag Universal Chessboard by Alain Zanchetta, CCC, March 06, 2005

2010 ...

 * Novag Universal Electronic Chess Board by chesspcmac, Hiarcs Forum, November 19, 2015
 * Universal Chess Board with Super Vip and other by dedicate computers, Hiarcs Forum, March 15, 2016
 * Novag UCB drivers (Winboard and UCI) by Graham O'Neill, CCC, February 24, 2017 » WinBoard, UCI

2020 ...

 * New DGT driver and updated eBoard drivers (Windows/Linux) by Graham O'Neill, CCC, July 23, 2021 » DGT Board

=Manual=
 * Novag Universal Chessboard - Instruction (pdf)

=Publications=
 * Novag - Universal Electronic Chess Board "Limited Edition", pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis (Dutch, German)

=External Links=
 * Novag Universal Electronic Chess Board from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * Novag Electronic Chess Board (Limited Edition) from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
 * Novag Sapphire, Universalboard from Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage by Kurt Kispert (German)

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