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Universal Chess Board with Sapphire II [1] 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 [2] 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 [3], Genius 3, Rebel 7 and WChess [4], and others, later also for engines running under Windows GUIs, such as ChessPartner [5], WinBoard [6] and Arena.

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)

References#

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

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