TASC+SmartBoard

a wooden tournament board produced by TASC as part of their Chess System and their dedicated computers TASC R30 and TASC R40 in the 90s. The board was suited for use with the TASC programs TascBase and Chessica, but had also driver software for MChess Pro, Hiarcs, Chessmaster 5000, Rebel, Fritz, Chess Genius and Kallisto. || toc =Piece Recognition=  =Patent Infringement= In 1994, TASC, and their primary US distributor ICD Corporation were impeached by a [|New Jersey] company, //Brehn Corporation//, due to [|patent infringement]. According to a [|New York federal court], TASC took the patented concept of piece recognition for their SmartBoard, invented by //Bruce F. Bogner//, and used it without permission and despite signing non-disclosure agreements. The judge ordered TASC to pay $581,000 , the affected boards and computers disappeared from the market soon after, and TASC B.V. became practically defunct in the early 2000s.
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 * [[image:tasc-board.jpg width="324" height="268" link="http://electronicchess.free.fr/tasc.html"]] ||~  || **TASC SmartBoard**,
 * TASC SmartBoard ||~  ||^   ||

=See also=
 * DGT Board
 * TASC R30
 * TASC R40

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Tasc Chess Smartboard] by Tim Jenkins, CCC, September 29, 1998
 * [|Re: Tasc R30 v 2.5?] by Robert Hyatt, CCC, September 08, 1999
 * [|Re: What happened to TASC?] by Steven Schwartz, CCC, October 27, 2001

=External Links=
 * [|TASC R30 (SmartBoard)] by [|Tom Luif]
 * [|TASC PC Smartboard]
 * [|Ismenio's archive of the Tasc Chess System - SmartBoard] by Ismenio Sousa
 * [|SmartBoard] from [|Le Fou numérique] by Patrick Buchmann (French)
 * [|Tasc SmartBoard] from [|Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)

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