Description
MILLENNIUM ChessGenius Pro Chess Computer
The chess computer for club and tournament players
Playing strength more than 2200 ELO
This Chess Computer contains one of the most famous chess engines of all times: ChessGenius by Richard Lang. With his 10 world championship titles in computer chess, this Englishman is without a doubt considered one of the most successful chess programmers of all time.
In addition to a more elegant appearance Genius Pro provides especially a significantly higher skill level, it reaches more than 2,200 ELO after international tournament standard. This was achieved through a variety of hardware and software modifications:
Improvements on Hardware
- Significantly faster processor with 120 MHz clock speed (Factor 2.5 times as much as ChessGenius)
- 160 KB RAM (Factor 5 times as much as ChessGenius)
- Automatic power supply detection – connected power supply switches off the sleep mode during 24 hours for long term analyzing
- Significantly improved sensor board with smooth-running pressure point
Improvements on Software
- Three different options for Openings selectable:
- ‘No opening book’, computer calculates by itself
- ‘Classic London Book’, of. 57.000 positions (Equivalent to the old Chess Genius, library was enlarged by a factor of 2.8)
- ‘Modern Book’, more than 100,000 positions, completely new library of modern opening variations. By HIARCS
- Generally improved sleep mode with extended wake cycles
- Display of move numbers in INFO mode
- New ‘Matt in X’ stage especially for problem solving
Optical improvements
- Exclusive chess pieces in white chrome (white pieces) and black chrome (black pieces)
- Exclusive felt-bottom on the pieces
The sum of all measures results in a significant performance improvement over the established model, so that the “Pro” is the perfect choice especially for ambitious players. The improvements in handling and appearance of course also welcome all players who do not just put on peak power value. The new options allow the Pro to play much more diversified than the ChessGenius, so that playing is on a new level of excitement. The few opponents, where the Genius so far failed, get a new job!
Due to the increased performance of the processor, we recommend to operate the Genius Pro by the power supply adaptor sold separately. The battery operation is still possible, however, the playing time with batteries is well below that of the Genius.
Playing levels and playing difficulty
- Virtually unlimited number of levels of difficulty
- Average time per move configurable
- Max overall duration of game configurable
- Includes demanding tournament levels suitable for skilled players
- Special „Matt in X“ stage for problem solving
- Countless levels especially for beginners
- Shows suggested moves (best, second best, third best etc. moves from the respective position)
Especially for chess experts
- Choice of 2 libraries of opening moves: the ‘Classic London Book’, with approximately 57,000 positions, and the ‘Modern Book’, with more than 100,000 positions
- Versatile analysis mode (text displays and chessboard display)
- Display analysis of positions, main variants and move number
- Enter any chess position
Especially for novices
- Chess trainer: Warns about bad moves, offers to take them back and makes suggestions for improvement to help make better moves
- Help function: Shows all permitted moves
- Fully flexible opportunities to take back moves
Features and ease of use
- Convenient menu system makes it easy to adjust system settings
- Large backlit display: shows the entire chessboard, plus help text and menu system text
- Extra-large chessboard: 20 x 20 cm playing area
- Multilingual user interface
- Different match modes: Player vs. computer, player vs. player etc.
- Improved energy saving mode with longer active times
- Power port for AC adapter (power pack sold separately)
- Automatic power supply detection to switch off the power-saving mode in network operation
Technical data: Processor: ARM Cortex M4 / 120 MHz RAM: 160 KB Chessboard: Pressure sensor board, magnetic Display: Backlit chessboard display Menu operation: 7 languages, text-based Languages: GB / DE / FR / NL / ES / IT / RU Software: Original CHESS GENIUS Power supply: 3 x AA alkaline batteries | Power port available (power pack sold separately) Dimensions: approx. 30 x 27.5 x 3 cm Chessboard dimensions: 20 x 20 cm
