saitek travel champion 2100

Revisiting the travel chess computer

Computers are interesting things. When we think of computers, we tend to think of general-purpose computers – our laptops, smartphones, servers and mainframes, things that run a vast array of programs composed of hundreds of thousands of instructions spanning a multitude of chips. When I was younger, general-purpose computers were more-or-less hobbyist items for home users. Single-purpose computers still exist everywhere, but there was certainly a time when having a relatively cheap, often relatively small computing device for a specific task was either preferable to doing that task on a general-purpose computer, or perhaps the only way to do it. Something like a simple four-function calculator was a far more commonplace device before our phones became more than just phones.

Chess poses an interesting problem here. By modern standards, it doesn’t take much to make a decently-performing chess computer. The computer I’ll be discussing later in this post, the Saitek Kasparov Travel Champion 2100 1 runs on a 10MHz processor with 1KB of RAM and 32KB of program ROM (including a large opening library). It plays at a respectable ~2000 ELO 2 . This was released in 1994, a time when the general-purpose computer was becoming more of a household item. The Pentium had just been released; a Micron desktop PC with a 90MHz Pentium and 8MB of RAM was selling for $2,499 (the equivalent of $4,988 in 2022, adjusting for inflation) 3 . 486s were still available; a less-capable but still well-kitted-out 33MHz 486 with 4MB of RAM went for $1,399 ($2,797 in 2020 dollars). Chessmaster 4000 Turbo would run on one of these 486s, albeit without making the recommended specs. It cost $59.95 ($119.85 in 2020 dollars) 4 , and while it’s hard to get a sense of the ELO it performed at, players today still seem to find value in all of the old Chessmaster games; they may not play at an advanced club level, but they were decent engines considering they were marketed to the general public. A more enthusiast-level software package, Fritz 3 , was selling for 149 DEM 5 , which I can’t really translate to 2020 USD, but suffice it to say… it wasn’t cheap. Fritz 3 advertised a 2800 ELO 6 ; a tester at the time estimated it around 2440 ELO. Interestingly, when that tester turned Turbo off, reducing their machine from a 50MHz 486 to 4.77MHz, ELO only dropped by about 100 points.

All of this is to say that capable chess engines don’t need a ton of processing power. At a time when general-purpose computers weren’t ubiquitous in the home, a low-spec dedicated chess computer made a lot of sense. The earliest dedicated home chess computers resembled calculators, lacking boards and only giving moves via an LED display, accepting them via button presses. Following this were sensory boards, accepting moves via pressure sensors under the spaces. These were available in full-sized boards as well as travel boards, the latter of which used small pegged pieces on proportionally small boards with (typically clamshell) lids for travel.

In 2022, we all have incredibly powerful computers on our desks, in our laps, and in our purses. Stockfish 15 , one of the most powerful engines available, is free open source software. Chess.com is an incredible resource even at the free level, powered by the commercially-available Komodo engine . Full-size electronic boards still exist, which can interface with PCs or dedicated chess computers. Some of these products are pretty neat – DGT makes boards that recognize every piece and Raspberry Pi-based computers built into chess clocks . There is an undying joy in being able to play an AI (or an online opponent) on a real, physical, full-sized board.

The market for portable chess computers has pretty much dried up, however. Pegboard travel sets eventually gave way to LCD handhelds with resistive touchscreens and rather janky segment-based piece indicators. These were more compact than the pegboards, and they required less fiddling 7 and setup. The advent of the smartphone, however, really made these into relics; a good engine on even the lowest-end modern phone is just a better experience in every single way . On iOS, tChess powered by the Stobor engine is a great app at the free level, and its pro features are well-worth the $8 asking price. The aforementioned chess.com app is excellent as well.

When I was quite young, I improved my chess skills by playing on a 1985 Novag Piccolo that my parents got me at a local flea market. I loved this pegboard-based computer – the sensory board which indicated moves via rank-and-file LEDs, the minimalist set of button inputs, even the company’s logo. It was just a cool device. It is, of course, a pretty weak machine. Miniaturization and low-power chips just weren’t at the state that they are now, and travel boards suffered significantly compared to their full-sized contemporaries. The Piccolo has been user rated around 900 ELO, it doesn’t know things like threefold repetition, and lacks opening books.

I’ve been trying to get back into chess, and I decided that I wanted a pegboard chess computer. Even though the feeling pales in comparison to a full-sized board, I don’t have a ton of space, I tend to operate out of my bed, and I have that nostalgic itch for something resembling my childhood Novag. Unfortunately, things didn’t improve much beyond the capabilities of said Novag during the pegboard era. I would still love to find one of the few decent pegboard Novags – the Amber or Amigo would be nice finds. But I ended up getting a good deal on a computer I had done some research on, the aforementioned Saitek Kasparov Travel Champion 2100 (from hereon simply referred to as the 2100).

I knew the 2100 was a decent little computer with a near-2000 ELO 8 and a 6000 half-move opening library. I liked that it offered both a rank-and-file LED readout and a coordinate readout on its seven-segment LCD. Knowing that these pegboard computers struggled to achieve parity with their full-sized counterparts, I was pretty surprised to find some above-and-beyond features that I was familiar with from PC chess engines. The LCD can show a wealth of information, including a continuous readout of what the computer thinks the best move is. A coaching mode is present, where the computer will warn you when pieces are under attack and notify you if it believes you’ve made a blunder. A random mode is present, choosing the computer’s moves randomly from its top handful of best options instead of always choosing what it believes is the best of the best. You can select from themed opening books or disable the opening library entirely. These are all neat features that I really wasn’t expecting from a pegboard computer 9 .

I can see why the 2100 tends to command a high price on the secondary market – if you want a traditional pegboard chess computer, it seems like a hard one to beat. I’m certainly intrigued by some of the modern solutions – the roll-up Square Off PRO looks incredibly clever 10 . But for a compact yet tactile solution that I can tune down to my current skill level or allow to absolutely blast me, the 2100 checks a lot of unexpected boxes. As I mentioned, these travel units died out for good reason; I can play a quick game on chess.com against Komodo and get an incredibly detailed, plain-language analysis afterword that highlights key moments and lets me play out various ‘what if?’ scenarios. I do this nearly every day as of late. Purchasing a nearly-three-decade-old chess computer may have been a silly move. But it’s a different experience compared to poking at at an app on my phone. It’s tactile, it’s uncluttered. It’s scaled down, but there’s still something about just staring at a board and moving pieces around. I still use my phone more , but the 2100 offers something different, and it offers that alongside a decent engine with a flexible interface 11 . Maybe one of these days someone will come out with a travel eboard, but I doubt it. Solutions like the Square Off PRO are likely the direction portable chess computers are headed. This is fine, it’s a niche market. I’m just glad a handful of decent models were produced during the pegboard era, and I’m happy to have acquired the Saitek Kasparov Travel Champion 2100.

• To the best of my knowledge, this unit is also known as the Kasparov Cosmos. Aside from the color of plastic, these units look identical, are feature-identical, and have been tested to the same rating. I don’t, however, have actual confirmation that they run identical hardware or ROMs. ↩︎
• Saitek claims 2200 ELO on the Travel Champion 2100 (why it’s called 2100, then, is a mystery…) but an independent test places it around 1980 ELO. I’ll trust independent tests a bit more, though ranking a computer is rather murky to begin with. ↩︎
• Price/specs from an ad in the December 1994 Home PC magazine . ↩︎
• Price from an ad in the March 1994 Electronic Entertainment magazine . ↩︎
• The asking price was apparently 198 DEM, but ads from the time suggest it sold for as low as 149 DEM. ↩︎
• ELO taken from a review in the October 1994 issue of PC Joker . ↩︎
• A thing about sensory boards is that they like having confirmation that the board state isn’t getting out of sync. So, in addition to making your move (by pressing down once to remove a piece and again to place it), you need to input the computer’s piece moves on the board as well. Obviously you would have to make the moves for them, but the act of applying pressure at the beginning and end of every move gives it sort of a rigid feel that can feel fiddly at times. ↩︎
• Frans Rosch, known for the Fritz engine, wrote Saitek’s engines at the time. ↩︎
• A lot of these features made it into Saitek’s LCD line as well, like the Mephisto by Saitek Maestro , one of which I may have also acquired. ↩︎
• Modern electronic boards no longer rely on pressure sensors. The aforementioned boards from DGT sense pieces by proximity and know what they are . The Square Off PRO isn’t quite so advanced, but it does use magnets in lieu of pressure sensors. This makes for more natural play, of course, but it also either locks you in to the manufacturer’s costly pieces or requires hacks to get traditional pieces to work. Pressure-based boards accept any pieces. ↩︎
• The interface is still pretty simple, and setting options and accessing info and such is not super intuitive. However, the manual is definitely something of a bygone era. It is very detailed and very well-written. I’ll hopefully be getting a flatbed scanner soon and popping this up on archive.org. ↩︎

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Saitek Travel Champion 2100 Chess Computer

In the past few years, we have covered some of the most powerful chess computers on the market. The Saitek Travel Champion 2100 is from 1994. It is a portable, travel chess computer with a 10MHz processor with 1kb RAM. It has an estimated rating of 2000 ELO.

This computer has a peg sensory board. It runs on 4 AA batteries. It has lights and a display to show the moves.You can see it in action in the above video.

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Saitek Travel Chess Instructions Manual (154 pages)

Table of contents, quick start.

• Table of Contents 3
• Game Keys 4

Keys and Features

• LCD Display Window 4
• Sensory Chessboard 4
• Display Symbols and Sounds 5

Introduction

• Making Moves 7
• Change Your Mind? Take Back 8
• The Computer’s Move 8
• Change Levels 9
• Check, Mate, or Draw 9
• Start a New Game 9

1 Using Your Chess Computer

• Battery Installation 6

2 Additional Computer Features

• Openings Coach 10
• Chess Clocks 10
• Capturing and Special Moves 11
• Illegal Moves 11
• Interrupting the Computer's Search 12
• Changing Sides with the Computer 12
• Getting Hints from the Computer 12
• The Computer Plays against Itself 12
• Game Memory and Automatic Power down 12

3 Levels and Special Modes

• Openings Library 13
• Fun Levels 14
• Bonus Timer Levels 14
• Tournament Levels 14
• Blitz Levels 15
• Bronstein Levels 16
• Bonus Timer Levels 16
• Tournament Levels 16
• Tournament Level Chart 17
• Fixed Depth Levels 18
• Tactical Level 18
• Teach Modes 18
• Selecting Levels and Teach Modes 19
• Openings Coach Mode 20
• Moves in Openings Coach 21
• Verify Mode: Check Piece Positions 22
• Non Auto Mode 23

4 Technical Details

• The ACL Function 24
• Care and Maintenance 24
• Technical Specifications 24

Troubleshooting Guide

• Tasten und Ausstattungsmerkmale 29
• Einlegen der Batterien 31
• Gebrauch Ihres Schachcomputers 31
• Züge Ausführen 32
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• Eine Neue Partie Beginnen 34
• Schach, Matt oder Remis 34
• Änderung einer Stufe 34
• Schachuhren 35
• Schlagen und Spezialzüge 36
• Tauschen der Seiten mit dem Computer 37
• Unterbrechung der Suche des Computers 37
• Unzulässige Züge 37
• Der Computer Spielt gegen sich selbst 38
• Eröffnungsbibliothek 38
• Hinweise vom Computer Bekommen 38
• Partienspeicher und Abschaltautomatik 38
• Die Spielstufen 39
• Stufen und Spezialfunktionen 39
• Leichtstufen 40
• Normalspielstufen 40
• Blitzspielstufen 41
• Bonuszeit Spielstufen 42
• Bronstein-Spielstufen 42
• Festgelegte Tiefenstufen 44
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• Taktische Spielstufen 44
• Auswahl der Stufen und Lehrfunktionen 45
• Eröffnungstrainingsfunktion 47
• Überprüfungsfunktion: Prüfen der Figurenstellung 49
• Die ACL Funktion 50
• Manueller Modus 50
• Technische Daten 50
• Pflege und Handhabung 51
• Technische Spezifikationen 51
• Fehlersuche 52

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Vintage Saitek 1994 Kasparov Travel Champion 2100 Electronic Chess CIB w Manual

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Hard to find vintage travel chess computer from Saitek, complete in the original box with manual.

UCSF 2200 Elo program computer - 64 skill levels, passive, active complete or tournament opening books.  Brute force or selective search algorithm.

All pieces included and complete including spare pieces in both colors.  Requires 4 'AA' batteries, not included.

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There are several well known ways for testing chess computers to see if they are identical. Some of the most popular ways are:

• BT 2450 and BT 2630 Test
• These tests were developed by Hubert Bednorz and Freddi Tönissen and comprise of 30 test positions for which the chess computer is given 15 minutes for each test position to find the correct move. Typically the computers are setup with the Infinite Time Level and a timer is used for observing when the computer finds the correct move. This time is then noted for each position. If the computer does not find the correct move in 15 minutes (900 seconds) then 900 seconds is noted as the time for the problem. After playing through all the test positions and noting the times in a spreadsheet that is provided for this test, the formula in the spreadsheet will calculate the playing strength for the chess computer based on these tests.
• These tests are very useful for identifying a clone suspect because these suspects will post exactly the same times for all or most of the test positions and this allows you to then take a closer look at the suspected machines and try out some other tests.
• These BT tests are good for obtaining playing strengths for machines above 1800 ELO (2000 USCF). Weaker machines would have problems in these tests.
• Replay a game Test
• If you think that two computers may actually be identical machines although disguised by the manufacturer through different housings, you may want to let them play a game or two against each other. You start by letting the two machines play a game from start to finish while writing down all the moves. Then you reset the machines and replay the moves with the other machine. If all the moves for the whole game are repeated exactly the same by the other machine then it is most likely identical. It is important to turn off any random or selective options that the chess computer may have to limit any random moves the computer may generate. As a rule of thumb, machines may be accepted as identical if they repeat the same moves 95% of the time. Repeating this test a few times would help to validate your findings.
• A quick and easy way to test your suspicions before you spend too much time verifying them with other tests is to set up the machines with exactly the same game settings and play 1. f3 on both machines at the same time. The 1.f3 move is useful because this move will take most dedicated chess computers out of their opening book. If both machines reply with the same move at exactly the same time then you probably have two clones. You may want to repeat this a few times because some machines still have some randomness in their play, even if this option is switched off. This may cause them to vary their reply and alternate between these two most likely replies 1. ... d5 or 1. ... e5. Once you have tried this you may then want to confirm your findings with the Replay a game Test or the BT Tests.

This test is is really a Replay a game Test but instead of trying to prove the existence of a clone, the goal is to find any differences in their game play and try to identify at what point in the games these move deviations occur.

In these tests, machines that reply on average more then 90% of the time with the same move can be considered as having the exact same software program.

The idea for these tests was formed while reading an article in which it was stated that Radio Shack Champion 2250 XL was just another one of many Saitek Kasparov GK2100 clones.

To test the validity of this article the following machines have been added to this test. All the Saitek machines below are listed as clones.

• Saitek Kasparov Cougar
• Saitek Kasparov Cosmos
• Saitek Kasparov GK 2100
• Saitek Kasparov Travel Champion 2100
• Saitek Kasparov Centurion
• Saitek Kasparov Travel Expert
• Radio Shack Champion RS 2250 XL
• Mephisto Roma II
• Novag Sapphire

Each machine was forced into playing two 40 moves in 2 hours games, using exactly the same opening each time, the Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation both as Black and as White against Fritz 8 on a Home PC running at 1.8 GHz. Next three games were picked at random that were played by a Saitek computer. The test results are shown below:

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Mensaje por hayabusa » 23 Jun 2020 12:26

Re: Saitek Travel Champion 2100

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Mensaje por hayabusa » 24 Jun 2020 05:33

I just tried the opening with TC2100 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e3 b5 6. a4 b4 7. Na2 e6 8. Bxc4 Bb7 9. 0-0 Black out of book No question the TC2100 book is bigger than RS2250 in this opening line. Then I also tried Cosmos: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e3 b5 white out of book Well it looks like the Cosmos book in this opening variation is the same as RS2250XL. Well this might confirm that the early TC2100 and probably also GK2100 have a bigger book at least in this variation than RS2250XL and Cosmos.

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andres escribió: ↑ 27 Jun 2020 12:54 En uno de los enlaces que has puesto, he leído que tiene varios libros de apertura, la has configurado con el mas fuerte?

andres escribió: ↑ 27 Jun 2020 12:54 Yo como rutina les hago el reset, antes de enfrentar las computadoras.

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