Gavon

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Gavon, a portable, commercial chess system by Josu Bergara Ede with the look and feel of the dedicated chess computers of the 80's, using Windows tablet, Raspberry Pi, pcDuino, or ODROID with LCD and Keypad unit or TFT displays, and a SD memory card with pre-installed open source chess engines, shipped via eBay. Gavon can be classified as a chess UI similar to Arena or Scid vs. PC with the chess engines integrated. It is written in C, like the chess engines compiled for the ARM processor, running under Linux, supporting both the Universal Chess Interface and the Chess Engine Communication Protocol aka XBoard.

=Playing Chess= Gavon allows to play chess without connecting either to a PC or monitor. When the host system boots, it will automatically start the Gavon controller program which loads the chess engines available. Indicated by its LCD, one can select the engine, level and mode of play via the selection buttons. Entering moves is possible via the keypad as well, but Gavon is also able to interface with various USB or Bluetooth Sensory boards, such as the DGT USB Board, DGT Bluetooth Board or Berger's USB Solus Board Can be connected to classic chess computers such as Saitek Renaissance using the OSA-Link interface. Gavon has several opening created from world chess champions or from user custom PGN files that can be used to play the games. The played moves can be heard by an external speaker connected to the audio output of the Raspberry Pi.

=Available Chess Engines=
 * Stockfish v. 5.0 by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, and Joona Kiiski 2733
 * Stockfish v. 6.0 by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, and Joona Kiiski 2683
 * DON v. 150914 by Ehsan Rashid 2635
 * Stockfish v. 3.32 by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, and Joona Kiiski 2627
 * IvanHoe 999946f by Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin et al. 2545
 * Firenzina v. 2.4.1 by Norman Schmidt, Dmitri Gusev and Matthew R. Brades 2520
 * Toga II v 1.4 by Thomas Gaksch and Fabien Letouzey 2437
 * Protector v. 1.5 by Raimund Heid 2427
 * Senpai v. 1.0 by Fabien Letouzey 2425
 * Protector v. 1.8 by Raimund Heid 2419
 * Protector v. 1.7 by Raimund Heid 2357
 * Crafty v.24.1.by Robert Hyatt 2299
 * Fruit v. 2.1 by Fabien Letouzey 2297
 * Hakkapeliitta v.2 Mikko Aarnos 2294
 * Cheng4 v. 0.36c by Martin Sedlak 2279
 * DiscoCheck v.3.7 by Lucas Braesch 2278
 * Rodent v. 1.2 by Pawel Koziol 2246
 * Hakkapeliitta v.1 Mikko Aarnos 2229
 * GNU Chess v 5.07 by Chua Kong Sian 2219
 * GreKo v. 10.3 by Vladimir Medvedev 2207
 * Pepito v1.59-2 by Carlos del Cacho 2205
 * Diablo v. 0.5.1 Marcus Prewarski 2100
 * RedQueen v 1.1.4 by Ben-Hur Carlos Vieira Langoni Junior 2089
 * CPW-Engine v. 1.1 by Pawel Koziol and Edmund Moshammer 2047
 * Faile v. 1.2 by Adrien Regimbald 2032
 * Jazz by Evert Glebbeek 1978
 * Gullydeckel v. 2.16 by Martin Borriss 1967
 * Vice v. 1.0 by Bluefever 1953
 * Ifrit v. j3.6 by Andrey Brenkman
 * Napoleon by Marco Pampaloni 1931
 * Claudia v.02 by Antonio Garro 1931
 * Jabba v. 1.0 by Richard Allbert 1888
 * Sissa v. 2.0 by Christophe Mandin 1867
 * Cinnamon v. 1.2b by Giuseppe Cannella 1805
 * AdroitChess v.0.3 by Daniel White 1749
 * Lime v. 66 by Richard Allbert 1778
 * Robocide by Daniel White 1773
 * Rocinante v. 2.0 by Antonio Torrecillas 1743
 * Bismark v. 1.2 by Evgeny Shtranvasser 1741
 * Maverick v. 0.05 by Steve Maughan 1738
 * Darky v. 0.5e by Alex Guerrero
 * RedQueen v. 0.4 by Ben-Hur Carlos Vieira Langoni Junior 1686
 * JFresh v. 0.1.a by Christian Daley 1603
 * Rocinante v. 1.01 by Antonio Torrecillas 1565

=Etymology= The name Gavon is the text reverse of Novag, in honor to the famous company of dedicated chess computers.

=See also=
 * Dedicated Chess Computers
 * DGT Board
 * Micro-Max
 * pcDuino
 * PicoChess
 * Raspberry Pi
 * Sensory Boards
 * SolusChess

=Forum Posts=
 * GAVON Portable Chess System by Bryan Whitby, CCC, February 08, 2014
 * GAVON Portable Chess System by Chessmaster Ireland, Hiarcs Forum, February 08, 2014
 * Gavon is here... by Paul Ward, Hiarcs Forum, February 17, 2014
 * Gavon, der flexible schachcomputer by Thorsten Czub, Schachcomputer.info, January 25, 2015 (German)
 * Dedicated computers vs PC, PICOCHESS, GAVON by chesspcmac, Hiarcs Forum, April 16, 2015 » PicoChess
 * Gavon 2 Chess Test Scores by Spacious Mind, Hiarcs Forum, July 23, 2015
 * Gavon 3 Chess Test Scores by Spacious Mind, Hiarcs Forum, November 02, 2015

=External Links=
 * SolusChess connected to Gavon by Josu Bergara
 * Gavon USB DGT Raspberry Pi chess computer Schach computer, Ajedrez electronico | eBay

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