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 [1] 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 [2], and others, later also for engines running under Windows GUIs, such as ChessPartner [3], WinBoard [4] and Arena.
Universal Chess Board with Sapphire II [5]

See also

• Novag Citrine

Forum Posts

• 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
• CEBoard 2.1 beta and Novag Universal Chessboard by Alain Zanchetta, CCC, March 06, 2005
• 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

Manual

• Novag Universal Chessboard - Instruction (pdf)

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)

References

1. ^ Universal Chess Board with Super Vip and other by dedicate computers, Hiarcs Forum, March 15, 2016
2. ^ Novag Universal Chessboard - Instruction (pdf
3. ^ Does the Novag Universal Chessboard work with ChessPartner or ERT ? - Lokasoft - Home of ChessPartner
4. ^ Extensions and Drivers from Tim Mann's Chess Pages
5. ^ Universal Chess Board with Sapphire II from Novag | Photo collection by Chewbanta

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